That's ok! Close the laptop quickly, remove the battery and turn it upside down to let it all drip out. After that you can open the laptop and clean the PCB inside with 99% alcohol, with some luck, it will still work. My niece got soda all over my brother/her father's laptop, I cleaned it up and it miraculously still worked. Well, almost, keyboard was done for, only a few keys worked, got a replacement for $20 on ebay and it's been working great since. So it's not the end of the world, especially if you're quick!
I've always found that the best way to deal with these situations is to not have kids in the first place. It's amazing how much money & aggravation that saves me! :)
(Great strip though! It's nice to see a loving - yet realistic - comic about family life & parenthood instead of the sappy "everything-is-roses-all-the-time" stuff that most other parenting comics like to spout! Keep it up!)
I have password locked my IPAD, Laptop and cellphone.... from my wife for this reason.
My wife is the electronics anti christ. If there was a boogie man that cellphones warn their baby cellphones about it would be my wife.
In the three year of us being married she destroyed beyond repair 4 Iphones, 3 laptops and 2 ipads.
I have had the same cellphone for the last 5 years and it looks brand new. The phone I got for my wife for her birthday last september looks like a pack of wolves used it for a chew toy (we don't have any pets) and is starting to malfunction and needs to be replaced.
She also has a bad habit of "borrowing" my electronics and leave it on the coffee table or other places where the kids can get to them.... so they can pull the keys of the keyboard, squish playdough into the CD drive and pour milk into them. This is why my brand new Nintendo 3DS XL I got myself for xmas is in the repair shop because two of the buttons are broken and one of the screens is cracked. I was playing Zelda Ocarina of Time and the device didn't last long enough for me to complete the forest temple.
It pisses her off but I tell her we can't afford for her to be within 10 feet of my electronics because she isn't trustworthy and she has since been banned from my office (which is also locked). When she gets huffy and tries to argue I just pull out the box that contains the $10,000 + worth of electronics she has destroyed.
I often end up doing the "going somewhere private and chuntering whilst punching the air while they can't see me" routine with members of my family (although it's usually the adults rather than my niece and nephew I'm annoyed at).
Regarding children and electronics I think it depends on the child. My niece and nephew (4 and 7) seem to be pretty good with electronics- to the extent that I gave them my old DSi and 3DS when I upgraded them and both are still in good working condition, even if the screens could maybe do with a clean (Whereas I had to send the DSi back to Nintendo while it was still mine because I managed to get rotten banana smeared into the L button!) and the old laptops they get to play on haven't had anything spilled on them so far. Probably because we taught them that eating and drinking should be kept separate from electronics.
As a side note, in the future it might be a good idea to invest in Dropbox or Google Drive, or even ICloud if that was a Mac. That way despite what happens you still get to recover your files :)
Even if the laptop is toast, you can most likely salvage the hard drive. You can buy a kit at best buy or online that let's you mount the drive as an external. Pull out the drive, attach the cable to the end of it and plug into the USB port. Then just go to the folders and copy over what you want.
Friday, December 20, 2013 at 11:21AM
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Haha- that's me most mornings with my daughter. You nailed it.
So spot on!
That's ok! Close the laptop quickly, remove the battery and turn it upside down to let it all drip out.
After that you can open the laptop and clean the PCB inside with 99% alcohol, with some luck, it will still work.
My niece got soda all over my brother/her father's laptop, I cleaned it up and it miraculously still worked. Well, almost, keyboard was done for, only a few keys worked, got a replacement for $20 on ebay and it's been working great since. So it's not the end of the world, especially if you're quick!
I've always found that the best way to deal with these situations is to not have kids in the first place. It's amazing how much money & aggravation that saves me! :)
(Great strip though! It's nice to see a loving - yet realistic - comic about family life & parenthood instead of the sappy "everything-is-roses-all-the-time" stuff that most other parenting comics like to spout! Keep it up!)
http://imgur.com/0XiJ50n
Shouldn't you at least explain to the child why this was wrong and that these are kind of expensive to break.
He's trying to teach us a parenting lesson and all you think about it's the laptop ?!
I have password locked my IPAD, Laptop and cellphone.... from my wife for this reason.
My wife is the electronics anti christ. If there was a boogie man that cellphones warn their baby cellphones about it would be my wife.
In the three year of us being married she destroyed beyond repair 4 Iphones, 3 laptops and 2 ipads.
I have had the same cellphone for the last 5 years and it looks brand new. The phone I got for my wife for her birthday last september looks like a pack of wolves used it for a chew toy (we don't have any pets) and is starting to malfunction and needs to be replaced.
She also has a bad habit of "borrowing" my electronics and leave it on the coffee table or other places where the kids can get to them.... so they can pull the keys of the keyboard, squish playdough into the CD drive and pour milk into them. This is why my brand new Nintendo 3DS XL I got myself for xmas is in the repair shop because two of the buttons are broken and one of the screens is cracked. I was playing Zelda Ocarina of Time and the device didn't last long enough for me to complete the forest temple.
It pisses her off but I tell her we can't afford for her to be within 10 feet of my electronics because she isn't trustworthy and she has since been banned from my office (which is also locked). When she gets huffy and tries to argue I just pull out the box that contains the $10,000 + worth of electronics she has destroyed.
I often end up doing the "going somewhere private and chuntering whilst punching the air while they can't see me" routine with members of my family (although it's usually the adults rather than my niece and nephew I'm annoyed at).
Regarding children and electronics I think it depends on the child. My niece and nephew (4 and 7) seem to be pretty good with electronics- to the extent that I gave them my old DSi and 3DS when I upgraded them and both are still in good working condition, even if the screens could maybe do with a clean (Whereas I had to send the DSi back to Nintendo while it was still mine because I managed to get rotten banana smeared into the L button!) and the old laptops they get to play on haven't had anything spilled on them so far. Probably because we taught them that eating and drinking should be kept separate from electronics.
lol, let it out!
You're a good dad if you really didn't scream at him, smh, unimaginable
As a side note, in the future it might be a good idea to invest in Dropbox or Google Drive, or even ICloud if that was a Mac. That way despite what happens you still get to recover your files :)
Even if the laptop is toast, you can most likely salvage the hard drive. You can buy a kit at best buy or online that let's you mount the drive as an external. Pull out the drive, attach the cable to the end of it and plug into the USB port. Then just go to the folders and copy over what you want.
At least he wasn't crying over it.