The Alanis Morisette Award for Irony

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » February 17th, 2022, 3:05 am

Here is my entry:

Today I opened up my computer to clean it. It went well. I decided to go for the big time. To go for gold. To go for glory; I decided to also clean my keyboard. It has become a bacterial palace of psoriasis scales, dust and other unmentionables. Bravery was required! To the taps! I turned on the water and ran it all over my keyboard. No going back now! I ran it over the keys again! A healthy puddle of soaking goodness.

Then I plugged the keyboard back in. I typed:

asnmdf

What? I had typed "and". Each keystroke was getting two letters at once! Like some Pig Latin mad man. I threw the keyboard across the room. I made you clean and you do this! Sigh. Do I have a spare? Yes! My plan Z keyboard that I forgot about some years ago. I plugged it in. It has gathered even more dust, crust and bacterial patronage than the one that I soaked; I am back where I started. All because I tried to be clean. Where's Alanis?

Dulcamara · Post by **Dulcamara** » February 17th, 2022, 3:22 am

Post by **annise** » February 17th, 2022, 3:50 am

I used to have a grey keyboard which I was always cleaning but now I have a black one and no overhead light so apart from turning it over a shaking it to remove crumbs etc I just let it sit there.

Anne

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » February 17th, 2022, 5:13 am

My keybords are only 108 yen. I have too many spares to clean them up.

Post by **TriciaG** » February 17th, 2022, 7:57 am

You ran water through your keyboard?

You do realize it's a piece of electrical equipment, right? I mean, it won't short out and electrocute you, but water and things that use electricity don't get along. Anything computer is hydrophobic.

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » February 17th, 2022, 12:51 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑February 17th, 2022, 7:57 am You ran water through your keyboard? You do realize it's a piece of electrical equipment, right? I mean, it won't short out and electrocute you, but water and things that use electricity don't get along. Anything computer is hydrophobic.

paullawleyjones · Post by **paullawleyjones** » February 17th, 2022, 8:58 pm

lightcrystal wrote: ↑February 17th, 2022, 3:05 am ... To the taps! I turned on the water and ran it all over my keyboard. No going back now! I ran it over the keys again! A healthy puddle of soaking goodness.

Hmm. Is this, perchance, the correct use of 'irony,' unlike Ms. Morissette's song?