My new adapter works, it works!
Jul. 29th, 2005 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Oh, but getting it was a pain. First, I have to trek all the way up to 57th. Then, I have to trek up to 58th. (After accidentally going down to 56th, no less!)
I go in the store: Well, we don't sell Dell products, but we probably have a universal adapter you can use.
I look at *all* the universal adapters. Many of them work for Dell products, even the same type of laptop - but only for later models than the one I have. I was expecting this, actually, seeing as how my laptop was actually out of date when I got it. That's the only way I could get a laptop at all, and isn't my mother a lucky one with a brother who lets money burn through is pocket?
Finally, the very last one I find can work on my laptop. Only problem? It's about $10 more than I have. And no, they won't hold it for me. I call my mom. She can come drop by with money in an hour. Luckily, a kind employee offered to hide it (it was the only one of its type), but he was going to be gone in an hour.
I run down - well, I take the train down to my mom's office. I chat with the guards. I take a train back up to the store. My adapter is still there, I purchase it, I realize that I'm sweating, not like a pig (pigs don't sweat), but like a human who has predictably forgotten to put on antiperspirant. Oops. No hugs for kind Lawrence, then....
Run home, open the box (with a knife, because these things are impossible, and I'm always scared I'll stab what's inside), work out how to put it together, hold my breath....
And it works! Plus, it's ligher than the old one, always a bonus.
Now, I have laundry to do. 'tis my penance.
I go in the store: Well, we don't sell Dell products, but we probably have a universal adapter you can use.
I look at *all* the universal adapters. Many of them work for Dell products, even the same type of laptop - but only for later models than the one I have. I was expecting this, actually, seeing as how my laptop was actually out of date when I got it. That's the only way I could get a laptop at all, and isn't my mother a lucky one with a brother who lets money burn through is pocket?
Finally, the very last one I find can work on my laptop. Only problem? It's about $10 more than I have. And no, they won't hold it for me. I call my mom. She can come drop by with money in an hour. Luckily, a kind employee offered to hide it (it was the only one of its type), but he was going to be gone in an hour.
I run down - well, I take the train down to my mom's office. I chat with the guards. I take a train back up to the store. My adapter is still there, I purchase it, I realize that I'm sweating, not like a pig (pigs don't sweat), but like a human who has predictably forgotten to put on antiperspirant. Oops. No hugs for kind Lawrence, then....
Run home, open the box (with a knife, because these things are impossible, and I'm always scared I'll stab what's inside), work out how to put it together, hold my breath....
And it works! Plus, it's ligher than the old one, always a bonus.
Now, I have laundry to do. 'tis my penance.
