Keith PC finally declared his PC dead on Monday. So when we arrived at work yesterday morning we weren’t surprised to find that the hardware faeries had taken the defective box.
In some ways it was a rather eerie sight: the monitor, keyboard, mouse and LAN cables were all still in place, but there was just a hole where the actual PC should have been. “Let that be a lesson to any other PCs that might misbehave,” I said.
Mid-morning, somebody’s monitor went bang! and stopped working, so they took Keith’s. The desk was beginning to look pretty bare.
After lunch I resurrected an old PC, and found I needed a keyboard and mouse. As Keith left for the day, all that was left of his PC was a lone LAN cable, its tail buried in the wall socket and its head flopping on the desk.
A half hour later, I discovered the old PC I was traced a network problem to a bad LAN cable. So I took Keith’s, of course.
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I'd like to say something about being a generous sort of bloke... but, of course, the truth is that parts get scavenged as needed.
Now I'm using the PC on the desk of Mark, who is teaching this week... you know what they say - "posession is nine tenths of the law". :)
Puts me in mind of how carcasses get stripped by scavengers.