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Beware of the electronic eating couch

blittledblittled Posts: 681
edited 2013-09-03 08:08 in General Discussion
Most of the time when I do my electronics I make an arm of the reclining couch in our living room my work space to do bread board development on my projects and computer programming. My wife tolerates it since I have a little tub to hold the most current project and I clean up after myself so it is out of site at the end of the day. I like this since my wife usually sits on the other side, our cat sleeps in my lap and I get to watch TV. The only problem is our couch loves to eat electronics.

It has eaten the tv remote countless times, a phone, usb cables, one of my QuickStart boards and today it ate the latest victim, my Kindle Fire. I searched today all over for my Kindle getting the sick feeling I lost it or left it at the vet when I went last week with the cat. I finally stuck my arm down the gut of the "beast" (the space in the middle between the two reclining sections) and felt something! It fought valiantly to keep its new found bounty but after a brief struggle I pulled out my Kindle! The black $17 protective case I got for it is a bit scratched up but otherwise it is ok. The phone it ate was in worse condition. It had a crack in the display and the battery hanging out. I gave the phone CPR (Careful Phone Repair) and got it going again.

Ok, if you have followed me this far I want to know of your stories of electronic eating furniture, black holes that suck up parts or inter-dimensional wormholes that make your projects disappear so I won't feel like I'm the only one losing my mind :).

Comments

  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2013-09-02 15:34
    There is definitely a wormhole in my office which likes to eat the one unique critical part without which I can't go further on whatever I'm working on. I have put parts down, turned around to read an email, then turned back to find them gone. This of course never happens with parts I have spares for (unless it happens to the entire bag). I got stalled today because I need a five pin female header socket and I know I have a bag of cut-downable 40's somewhere but I can't find it. Rather than botching the job I'll just grab one from work tomorrow, whereupon I'm sure mine will reappear.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-02 19:48
    Around here it seems to be ideas, not couches, that eat lots of parts. They eat lots of money, too. Money goes into their feeding holes and never comes out. It's a mystery to me how that happens.

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-09-02 19:55
    The floor of my shop eats parts. It's amazing how far they can bounce when dropped, scurrying into dark corners like so many cockroaches, never to be found. My furniture, OTOH, eats honey-roasted penuts which, remarkably, aren't bad after several months when I ultimately rediscover them.

    Mmmmmm! A g e d _ h o n e y - r o a s t e d _ p e a n u t s !

    -Phil
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-09-02 19:57
    And here I thought it would be about gaining weight because it would be about munching while sitting and building.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-03 02:54
    blittled wrote: »
    The only problem is our couch loves to eat electronics.

    It has eaten the tv remote countless times, a phone, usb cables, one of my QuickStart boards and today it ate the latest victim, my Kindle Fire.
    It sounds like neglect to me, The poor couch is hungry! You need to stop feeding the cat and use the cat food to feed the couch, lightly smear it around the gaps in the cushions and hopefully the couch will be satisfied and stop it's plea for food.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-03 05:07
    skylight wrote: »
    ...use the cat food to feed the couch....

    Better yet. Just feed cats to your couch. There's always plenty to go around.

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  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-03 05:44
    That's just plain cruel !! The poor couch could be ripped by the cats sharp claws at least put cat booties on it first.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-03 08:08
    skylight wrote: »
    ...at least put cat booties on it first.

    For the claw portions, there are always other hungry mouths to feed.

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