No, there’s no Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughn. This is a different sort of crash that ended up costing us $1,000!
My husband and I recently decided to do a little renovation project in our apartment. After much debate, several drawings, and lifting the same pieces of furniture about nineteen times, we had re-arranged the dining area of our apartment. Among the biggest changes was the light fixture swap. We removed the “stock” domed ceiling-hugger and replaced it with a pendant hanging light fixture. The electrical socket for the fixture wasn’t directly centered over the table, so we had to drape about a foot of cord across the ceiling by installing a hook for it to wrap around.
The problem? Concrete ceiling. The solution? Glue, duh.
Oops. We didn’t want to disturb our neighbors above, so we opted to Gorilla Glue our nifty hook rather than risk hammer-drilling ourselves right out of the building. Everything had remained firmly in place for over a week, so a second thought was never given to placing a new vase of fresh anniversary flowers underneath the 75watt potential wrecking ball.
The day after our wedding anniversary, with the laptop cozily positioned next to the vase of flowers underneath the light fixture, we came home to what looked like a vandalized apartment. The glue had come undone and the light fixture had crashed down, knocking over the vase of flowers and dumping a half gallon of fertilized water all over our laptop! The data was okay, but the machine was fried. $1,000 later at the Apple store, we are able to broadcast to you once again.
The lessons: Never glue always screw, don’t put water next to a laptop, and listen to that IT guy- backup your files.
