Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26326346-20150430062138

Hello. My name is Steve Grenwalt and I'm a small time writer for a magazine called "The Moonlight Report". I thought that I'd share a personal tragedy of mine that I suffered five years ago. Now before we begin, I want to point out that I only had the laptop for 2 months and that it was already a few years old by the time that I bought it off of Craigslist, so I can't recall the brand (I think it was Acer) and it was a lot more bulkier than the laptops of today. I'd bought the laptop off of Craigslist in the Summer of 2009 and I met up with the seller in a Walmart parking lot. The fellow was very cordial and seemed normal enough. I paid him the $500 and we went our separate ways. It was as simple as that. I got home and set about charging up the laptop so that I could begin work on my newest story (I think it was about an oil spill). After it had finished charging I turned it on and began typing, it was during that first session that I noticed a strange hiss almost every time that I stuck a key. I brushed it off and figured it must have been the computer working extra hard to keep cool. This idea seemed to reinforce itself toward the end of the first month when the computer began to regularly overheat and do emergency shut downs. It got to where I was saving my work every couple of minutes and toward the middle of the second month I had resolved to use my next payday to buy a new laptop. I was nearing completion of my story when disaster struck. The hissing grew louder than it had ever been before and it sounded like it was coming from my left. I looked over to the left of my laptop just in time to see a small black snake lunge and sink its fangs into my left hand (which was typing at the time). Yes, I had a snake living inside my laptop. I don't recall much after that other than fishing my cellphone from my pocket and calling for an ambulance. I was hallucinating pretty badly by the time I was in the emergency room. Unfortunately, the species of snake remains unknown and because of that I wasn't able to receive anti-venom which ended up costing me my left hand. It could have been worse, it could have been my dominant hand. The doctors told me that it likely crawled in there to keep warm as snakes tend to like that. sometimes I wonder if that man had put the snake in there.

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The above is loosely based upon fact. I was reading about technological nightmares and I read of a particular individual that was working on a friend's computer tower; when he opened the case he found a snake skin. 