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I was climbing out of the bathtub, one hand holding my 10" tablet, the other swinging around vigorously to keep my balance.
I placed the tablet onto a 5-gallon bucket of roofing compound that I keep next to the bathtub, but to my dismay, the tablet slipped off the bucket and fell onto a sledgehammer resting next to it. Glass side down, of course.
The terrible sound of glass on sledgehammer!
For a few seconds I thought the screen was broken: there were weird lines going across the lit LCD. But it turned out it was just water droplets that ran across the surface.
While no damage had occurred, in light of this accident, and the previous accident (in which I spilled 1 liter of water onto my laptop), I clearly need to review safety procedures around my house.
To that effect, I moved the sledgehammer behind the bucket, so it's more out of the way.
Jan 12 · 4 months ago · 😄 2
with such a large house, is there no other spot for such materials than the bathroom? not sure if you're mid-construction.
although I must say that's amazing it didn't break.
You missed an opportunity to buy a new tablet. Next time, try harder.
🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 13 at 00:47:
That's got to be the strangest first-world tech accident I've heard since someone dropped their Macbook Pro on their iPad.
Props for that.
We once broke a Chromebook by dropping a tablet on it. I think it's the only time I've ever really "repaired" a laptop ... because on opening it up, it transpired that the impact had knocked the internal display connector loose. Plugged back in :)