Eating at your desk Do's and Don'ts?

Hickin · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:02

Eating at your desk, Do's and Don'ts?

I just recently did the annual keyboard clean and found a collection of stale crumbs! Mainly from toast I'm guessing.

Just wondered if anyone had any keyboard/laptop disasters? I'm guessing soup is the main enemy of the keyboard muncher!

Aod · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:04

i find that spaghetti often results in small blobs of sauce ending up on the screen

Atrox Moris · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:04

I used to smoke like a train at my computers, the amount of ash that came out of the keyboard was unreal. Now I don't smoke or eat around my computers.

Camalot · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:07

I dropped some drink on my keyboard and all the keys stuck

Greenlizard0 · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:08

I once drowned an old ball containing mouse, it was ok after a dry out though...never again..

Ma'am · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:13

I knocked a cup of tea over this morning - all over my laptop. Up to now it seems ok and obviously it didn't explode not so long ago when I connected it to the mains. :eek:

secretspy · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:13

One of my ex colleagues once spilt cuppa soup on his keyboard at work. i ended up having to clean it up for him!

apeZ · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:25

Hot chocolate over the monitor.

No hot drinks, or any unprotected drinks within a 3 metre radius of my PC after that incident.

V4NT0M · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:26

Water all over the keyboard, new keyboard time.

David91 · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:28

Dr Pepper on the keyboard, got a paper towel and gave it a good shake all was sorted

Mr^B · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:30

Ma'am said:
I knocked a cup of tea over this morning - all over my laptop. Up to now it seems ok and obviously it didn't explode not so long ago when I connected it to the mains.

My laptop didn't explode when I connected it to the mains either!

:eek:

grudas · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:33

my saitek eclipse wasn't working for 2 days after my cup of tea went on it... now it works with only 1 led on lol =]

Hickin · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:36

grudas said:
my saitek eclipse wasn't working for 2 days after my cup of tea went on it... now it works with only 1 led on lol =]

Somehow this reminded me of the scene in short circuit 2 when johnny is on a mission to catch oscar bleeding battery fluid etc...hardcore!!!!

K.C. Leblanc · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:47

My keyboard came out of a school IT room (I know last of the big spenders). I don't even want to think about what's living in there.

OzyOly · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:48

Camalot said:
I dropped some drink on my keyboard and all the keys stuck

I did this with whiskey.

Sanguinnus · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:47

I bought a g15 a while back, had it a week or two and spilt my bong on it, a dead g15 ensued.

Westie · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:53

i dont eat like a slob so eating at PC is ok for me always nice and tidy!

I bought a g15 a while back, had it a week or two and spilt my bong on it, a dead g15 ensued.

i have however done that 2 times but it still worked afterwards

Kreeeee · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:55

Soup and spaghetti always ends up getting tiny spots of sauce on my monitor no matter how careful I am.

CliffyBiro · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:57

David91 said:
Dr Pepper on the keyboard, got a paper towel and gave it a good shake all was sorted

What's the worst that could happen?

OCdude · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:04

On two separate occasions i've spilt an entire cup of tea onto/INTO the keyboard! lol

I've got a stack of hard drives on my desk and the tea made a beeline for them, so I quickly lobbed them across the room (onto the bed!) and pooped my pants as I watched the tea flow to the back of my desk. I could hear it dripping onto the skirting board behind my PC and splashing up against the back of my PC lol......... nightmare

Stupid thing was... once i'd soaked all the tea up, i decided to upturn my keyboard... not realising that 1/2 the cup of tea was still inside lol