Mouse problems
I’ve been having mouse problems. Not quite the rodent type, but irritating nonetheless.
It all started when the touch pad on my laptop turned up its toes (so to speak) a year or so ago.
“Too difficult and expensive to repair,” said the kind computer guru. “Attach a mouse – much easier, and MUCH cheaper!”
So I did. Bought a mouse for about a fiver and plugged it in. Worked perfectly straight out of the box, and we were happy together.
Well, happy until the day I dropped it onto the tiled floor in our conservatory. I recovered it in fear and trembling, uttering soothing noises as I cradled it in my hands, and bless the little soul, it worked again perfectly.
That was the first time I dropped it. Now we’re up to the nth time, and my little friend has gone on tremulous strike.
It still works, just. But it trembles and hovers and is generally badly behaved. I’ve stuck it for several weeks, but today the moment came when I knew I’d have to splash out another fiver.
I found the selfsame mouse on Amazon (for under a fiver, actually, and free postage. How about that?) but would you believe it – I’d no sooner finished the transaction than my errant mouse started working perfectly.
Perhaps because I dropped it yet again…