Note to self

One of my friends at school called me with an emergency last night. She had a dead battery, but luckily someone with jumper cables stopped to help her. Relieved, she set down her backpack to help this good Samaritan place the jumper cables and start the vehicle up. When it was all over, the person packed up the cables, said goodbye to my friend, and drove away. So why did she call ME if this emergency was seemingly taken care of by this Samaritan stranger? Jumper cables were not her emergency. Her emergency was that the good Samaritan, when he drove away, he drove right over her backpack she had set down on the ground. Her computer was in the backpack. Finals are a month away. Ahh. Now the emergency is evident.

No problem though. Her hard drive was not damaged and we were able to get all her data off and saved to her USB flash drive. (ok, the one pictured is not her damaged computer, but it looked close)

Moral of this story-- back up your data because you never know when some well-meaning citizen will stop to help you with their jumper cables, then subsequently run over your computer.