A mouse is worth a thousand frustrations

This must be the time of turmoil and strife for the mouse world. This month my friend Bob and I both lost our very dear friends and companions... our computer mouses [meese?]. I have had mine for, oh, 10 years maybe. It was the perfect microsoft USB intellimouse, remember this guy?

Yeah i loved that little bugger. Anyway both had died, and we were very upset about it.

Today a woman comes in, which she had been here before for service, and is very alarmist. She had been in for a bad harddrive, which according to her was the second one in just a few months. I told her HDDs are very random, sometimes lasting for years other times dying in a few months. She always flipped out when she came in about this or that, wide eyed, fast talking, and with crazy hand gestures.

So today she was wondering why her mouse didnt work. All she had was the mouse, a HP standard ps/2 ball mouse. It looked pretty cheep, and i figured it probably had died on her. I tried plugging it in to the check-in system to see if it would go. Nope, no luck. I thought, maybe id try my system. Plugged it in... BAM. My system shuts down. I was suprised, however i didnt have a i/o shield [a little metal cover] on the back of the computer, so i thought maybe i had just touched something and shorted it. I had a customers computer up, so i tried plugging it in that. The mouse auctually prevented the monitor from displaying. When i unplugged it, it turned on again... very strange.

I decided to cut my losses and informed her that it was "a dangerous mouse", and got her set up with a new MS intellimouse. I told her about mine and how great it was. I can only hope the spirit of him is with her now.

In memory of MS intellimouse item number 52195, you will be missed