Grrr, argh!

[molly_o]

My last two laptops died because of issues with the power cord, and I was psyched when @pple switched over to a magnetic cord/receptacle. But just in the last couple weeks, my M*cbook started charging only when the cord was plugged in a certain way, and jiggled a bit, for good measure. It reminded me of the weeks before my last laptop died, when I spent a ridiculous amount of time arranging the jack *just so* to get the battery to recharge.

Yesterday, as I half expected, my laptop quit charging at all. I fiddled with it, blew on both ends, tried turning the cord this way and that -- and the power level just got lower and lower.

I took it into my office today and tried the power cord of my work laptop, and it charged up just fine, so I knew for sure the cord was the problem. I called ahead to make sure the @pple store had a power cord in stock (because one time we went all the way there and they didn't).

Then I went home, feeling very smug, because I checked everything and made a call and spent $80 instead of getting a new laptop. When I got there, because the outlet is under a bookshelf and I'm lazy, I plugged the NEW laptop-to-power-pack half of the cord into the OLD power-pack-to-wall-outlet half of the cord.

And my laptop wouldn't charge.

So I thought, OK, I was wrong about where the fault is in the cord. I got the new power-pack-to-wall-outlet half of the cord and got on the floor to plug it in, and discovered the old power-pack-to-wall-outlet half of the cord **wasn't actually plugged in**.

So not only have I spent $80 on a power cord I don't need, but now I actually remember Mark having a conversation with me Saturday about plugging something else in that outlet. (Mark, more or less verbatim: "Can you get electrocuted if you stick your fingers into the holes? Because I can't see the holes in the dark, I need to find them with my hand." Yes, we are a well-matched pair, thank you for noticing.)

Comments

[reginagiraffe]

The answer is "yes you can".


Not that I know from personal experience or anything. *koff*


(Hint: Do not try to plug the Christmas tree lights in if there are no lights on in the room. Even if it looks dramatic. Having zapped fingers is also dramatic.)