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RooneyX · Sep 15, 2003, 10:21 PM

I normally take my PB12 to the cafe to write because I'm too lazy to do any work at home.

So anyway, this evening there was no place to sit at the cafe and therefore I had to drive back home coffee and Powerbook in hand.

Well, when I got home and parked the car in the garage, I looked across to the passenger seat, where I normally keep my PB as I travel, and it wasn't there!

What happened to it?! Did I leave it at the cafe? No, I remember leaving with it, carrying it as I walked sulking down the road to my car.

Is it behind the driver's seat where I normally keep it? I asked. So I got out to pull the driver's seat forward and lo and behold there was my Powerbook. No, not behind the seat but on the roof of the car!

I had driven three miles doing 60MPH in a powerful BMW and the little Aluminium beast did not budge a single inch, even with my crazy driving and weaving around corners. Not one inch! I'll never complain about the rubber feet again.

I also know now why all those SUVs driving behind me were flashing their lights at me.

beefstu01 · Sep 15, 2003, 10:23 PM

Lemme pick up my jaw from the floor before I say anything other than "damn."

::Edit::
Was the car okay?

(Sorry, the BMW is one of my favorites, and after I get outta college... well, 330xi here I come!)

RooneyX · Sep 15, 2003, 10:36 PM

Originally posted by beefstu01:
Lemme pick up my jaw from the floor before I say anything other than "damn."

::Edit::
Was the car okay? (Sorry, the BMW is one of my favorites, and after I get outta college... well, 330xi here I come!)

The car? I knocked the right wing mirror off today. 630 bucks repair cost. I hate the right wing, they cost us too much money.

macndave · Sep 15, 2003, 10:47 PM

Originally posted by RooneyX:
... No, not behind the seat but on the roof of the car!

I had driven three miles doing 60MPH in a powerful BMW and the little Aluminium beast did not budge a single inch...

Wow...That is incredible. You are so lucky.

nobitacu · Sep 15, 2003, 10:52 PM

Oh well... even if you do break it or lose it, you can always afford another one anyways... and I'm sure you have all your data backed up somewhere. Most of us here has to take time to save up again.

Ming

Lertsiri · Sep 15, 2003, 10:55 PM

Thank god for rubber feet! Now you can saw that the powerbook takes on corners like never before and can handle 0-60 with east! Not bad for a G4! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I wonder if the 17" PB can handle the same effect with its mass. Oh wait maybe the ground clearance on the 17" isn't enought to clear the curve of the roof!

But seriously, you must be one lucky PB owner. If that had been around the more urban areas of NY at stoplights, those rubber feet wouldn't even make the cut against those squeegy people wiping your windows....my demo showreel

Lertsiri · Sep 15, 2003, 10:56 PM

I meant to type SAY not saw hahahahaha

RooneyX · Sep 15, 2003, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by Lertsiri:

But seriously, you must be one lucky PB owner. If that had been around the more urban areas of NY at stoplights, those rubber feet wouldn't even make the cut against those squeegy people wiping your windows....my demo showreel

This here is urban Beverly Hills, dude. Some serious drivers here!

TheIceMan · Sep 15, 2003, 11:18 PM

RooneyX: Isn't that just the greatest feeling in the world to know that you did something so insane, but nothing bad happened? Glad the little guy hung on tight! Cool story!

chrisutley · Sep 15, 2003, 11:58 PM

I don't know why this reminded me of an old Apple commercial for the Quadra, but it was mostly video of a car speeding down a winding road with the engine revving. The voiceover is saying, "Its' power will amaze you, its' handling will astound you. But what makes this computer so revolutionary is what it runs on ... your imagination. Macintosh Quadra, the most powerful Macintosh, EVER."

Glad to hear your PowerBook survived. YOU know the guy driving an '89 Buick that doesn't have two nickels to rub together would have seen his PB tumble down the road in his rearview mirror just before a semi finished it off.

Link · Sep 16, 2003, 12:19 AM

lol chris, I have a feeling that's what would happen to me, except I have a 95 car

Darn you lucky rich people

You're lucky, count your blessings!

DigitalEl · Sep 16, 2003, 12:40 AM

YOU know the guy driving an '89 Buick that doesn't have two nickels to rub together would have seen his PB tumble down the road in his rearview mirror just before a semi finished it off.

Too funny... And no doubt true.