Today, I noticed my laptop kept shutting down and the mouse cursor was all over the place, clicking on every folder. I dismantled the entire computer only to notice something in one of my USB drives: the receiver to a wireless mouse my colleague put there earlier to play a prank on me. 5ML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at work, my mouse cursor kept randomly moving all over the screen, and messed up an entire day's attempted work. As I was leaving, I overheard one of my co-workers saying he'd plugged a wireless mouse adapter into my computer, and had been trolling me all day. FML
Today, my step-mom restarted the computer because she thought she'd downloaded a virus that stopped her from being able to click on anything, erasing my 7-page paper in the process. It turns out it was just the batteries dying in our wireless mouse. FML
Today, after almost a week of my cursor randomly freezing, I'd had enough and was about ready to go out and get a new computer mouse. It wasn't until just now that I realized nothing was wrong with my mouse. It was running on fumes because I forgot to replace the battery. FML
Today, my computer mouse suddenly stopped working. Assuming it had died, I put a new battery in. It still didn't work. After spending several hours trying to understand what problem it could possibly have, I figured out that it helps if you don't put the battery in backwards. FML
Today, my laptop has its own likes and dislikes. The cooler keeps spinning crazily, causing loud annoying noise when I use the laptop at my parent's house, and functions perfectly silent at my place. Careful inspection proved full working order. What's going on? FML
Today, my dad was sat on my laptop in the living room trying to learn how to do some rewiring around the house when he, and I quote, ”clicked on the thing.” My laptop is now riddled with so many viruses it’s basically a house brick. FML
Today, my friends took my work laptop and changed the sounds. Now, whenever I remove a USB device, a woman's voice screams "Put it back!" and when I insert a USB device, it says "Oh, you need to push it in harder!" I don't know how to change it back. FML
Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML
Today, while trying to get my attention, my dog got her nail stuck in a usb port in my laptop. She freaked out and ran off, dragging it off my lap and through the house before if came off. Her nail was only slightly chipped- my laptop now has a cracked screen. FML
Today, I restarted my PC a few times because of a little clicking noise coming from the direction of the tower. No, my hard drive wasn't doing a death rattle, it was music coming from ear buds lying beside said tower on the desk. FML
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Top comments
coried91 28
At least nothing was actually wrong with your computer. If you know how to take it apart then I'm hoping you can put it back together.
Zverina 20
Guess you could say your computer was... Cursed... by a cursor.
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Comments (84)
ChawanKiti 15
At-least it was just a prank and not some virus ******* up your computer.
TXFernwoods 26
Prank him back!
chocolatefrog28 29
Time to tape an air horn under his chair and wait for him to sit down, it won't be only his cursor feeling jittery after that.
Grauncho 27
Curses!
Blippety 23
Or should that be - cursors!
Drianor 4
Let's be honest now, do you really think that his prank was the problem, or you for dismantelling it before checking other ppssibilities.
Readoll 13
time for the snake in the desk drawer prank...
JMichael 26
I'm wondering how you don't notice something like that.
Ali_Br_fml 33
Some usb dongles are really small, and don't protrude from the usb port, so it could be possible to miss at a glance. Hopefully that was the case for OP. If not, OP totally deserved it for not noticing a big usb dongle sticking out from one of their laptop's usb ports before deciding to dismantle it.
Thunderlaxus 10
if you had to dismember your entire pc for that, you're doing something very very wrong
worldclassrager 41
Well you took it apart sure hope you can but it back together...
dachayke 16
Exactly, OP needs to put it back together with his butt! What? Well excuuuse me princess, what do you expect from a 13-year-old?
WellThatSucked89 13
I feel as though I just lost a few IQ points.
dachayke 16
50: That was my life goal. I have now succeeded. Now I can fulfill my dreams of running away and becoming a hermit for the next 50 years. By the way, your username sums up my last comment perfectly.
gunnerman69 1
Big whoop its a prank