It was threatening rain and while I had the top up on the wrangler, the windows were safe and sound in the garage. That’s fine, as I had the much lamented mopar cover to keep things mostly dry just in case.

On the way out of the office at the end of the day, Ralph and I were discussing the merrits of the new extenda trunk. Well as we were chatting I put my laptop bag down by the passenger side door as I usually do and then moved to the drivers side to start taking the cover off. Being the good bloke that he is, Ralph started helping me take the cover off. The cover came off in quick order and I stashed it in the extenda trunk while showing Ralph what it was all about and how it just sits in there without any hardware. (that’s because the hardware was missing when it was shipped to us)

After agreeing it was all pretty cool, Ralph toddled off to his sea foam green Yaris and I hopped in the Jeep and got set to roll out. Radio on? Check. Seat Belt on? Check. Phone headset on so that I can talk hands free? Check. OK Good to go.

So I stick it in 1st and turn right, pull out and the car is jacked up in the air! I stop the jeep and look at Ralph who is just off to my right. He’s pointing behind me and I’m wondering what the hell I hit. I jump out of the Jeep and look over to see my laptop bag lying knocked over in the carpart, bleeding protein shake. ( I keep a couple in there for snacks )

I’m thinking to myself that I’ve run over the case enough to lift the left rear of the Jeep in the air and burst protein shakes inside the bag. That’s probably not a good thing for my brand new, 4 week old laptop that is sitting in the same bag.

I tell Ralph, who is asking, that I just ran it over. Is it OK? Asks the ever helpful Ralph? I’m too flustered to check. I stick the bag in the Jeep and let him know I’ll check it when I get home.

The whole way home I have the same flutter in my stomach as you get after an accident or near miss. The last thing I need right now is to order a new Laptop. It would be at least a week before I could go pick it up in Harrison and the one I got was the last newegg.com had in stock.

I made it home in one piece, took the laptop in it’s neoprene suit out of the bag with the power supply, left the rest of the gooying protein mess outside and went in the house. Gingerly took it out of the case, expecting to see a thousand parts fall out. What’s that? It’s in one piece? Nooooo that can’t be right. OK, go sit down and lift the lid. No visible damage, so far so good, will it boot? Yup, no worries.

Turns out I was a very very lucky man. Managed to run over my laptop in a Jeep Wranger and have only a few small marks on the screen, that are only visiable in black screens, to show as the damage.

All in all, I’d chalk that up to one tough laptop.

Cheers,

Shane

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