The girlfriend has a TV that blew up. Occasionally she powers it up to see if it works or not again. This blows the breakers to her apartment. So she leaves it there for a couple of months and tries again. Of course it blows the breakers instantly every time. It blew up initially 6 years ago. I am wondering if she's still going to be doing this in 6 years. She has more than enough money to replace it but that or repairing it is "too much hassle" so she doesn't bother. So it sits there. Then again she has a psych PhD so perhaps it's just an experiment.
People are weird when it comes to ensuring they get absolute maximum value out of the things they buy.
I had a 3 year old $20 electric shaver that got dropped into water a few months ago. It wasn't water proof. It stopped turning on but I noticed if I let the battery drain and then plug it into an outlet it worked. I got about a month out of it this way. After it stopped working using that method I tried every day for a week using all sorts of combinations to see if it would turn on, it never did. Eventually I bought a new one but I wasn't happy about it.
That would be a severe underestimation of my persistence on such matters. I held a support case open for nearly a decade at MSFT on Connect. It only got closed because they shut Connect down.
