Last evening, my PC began to emit high-pitched squeals. The sound drivers in Windows seem to be a bit flakey. My natural reflex was to reach to the left of my screen where my loudspeaker with the powerbutton for the speakers sits. Well, what I had forgotten was a bottle of soda which stood in front of it.
Uncapped.
I knocked it over and soda began to pour on my desk. I quickly picked it up again, but quite a bit of liquid had escaped. Now get this: It barely missed my iBook; the lower right corner was touched by a tiny bit of liquid. I immediately dried it off; so I am pretty sure that nothing had actually entered it. However, by this time the soda had run down to the front side of the desk. I guess my desk is at a slight angle. Anyway, the stuff was flowing off the corner and on the ground – missing my PC by about 10 centimeters.
You do need to know that my PC is currently sitting on its side, with the left side (now the top) cover removed and various harddrives randomly sitting in/on the case. Had my PC been a bit further to the right, the soda would’ve flowed right down into the PC, over my harddrives to the CPU.
Needless to say that probably would’ve killed the entire thing.
I feel quite lucky.
