If it had waited 30 seconds, this would still be a sucky story but not an absolute freakin’ nightmare. I was literally - literally - attaching the draft to the e-mail when the computer froze up. I didn’t really think much of it, and I was learning to live with the random slowness.Īnd then disaster struck. In the meantime, my external hard drive (aka, the useless-when-I-actually-needed-it backup drive) spontaneously stopped working and had to be sent out for replacement.
I kept calling tech support and they’d walk me through a temporary fix, but the problems just kept coming back. It was freezing randomly, and certain processes were running really slowly. What would you have done? Me, well, I had a panic attack.įor the last several months, there’s been something wrong with my computer. Yeah, that’s what happened to me last month. The one that’s due to the client tomorrow morning. And inside, trapped, is the proposal you have been slaving over for weeks.
You try everything you can think of to no avail, so you do a forced shut-down…and then your computer never turns back on.
You’re in the middle of attaching your revised, almost-final draft of a major proposal to an e-mail to your client when your computer freezes.
( - Imagine this: It’s the night before a big deadline, about 10 p.m.