Have you ever fixing your appliances by smacking them?
By ibuemma
@ibuemma (2953)
United States
March 27, 2010 4:46pm CST
Let say, your tv suddenly has no picture, or maybe your radio just produce the static noise, and then you try to see if the cable plug in right or maybe the remote not right, or the tune in button is loose. After sometimes, you give up and SMACK this appliances...suddenly voila it works again, picture come back on.
I just did that this afternoon. My daughters try to catch a disney movie, suddenly, no picture coming on. I check everything, did everything properly as the manual book said in troubleshooting area. I got so frustated, and I just SMACK that TV out of frustation, and BAM picture come back on.
Have you ever do that, or maybe you always do it when your appliances get crancky little bit?
8 responses
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
28 Mar 10
Yes, I've done this. My mother used to do it to the TV all the time. Also, when my chair was breaking and we couldn't afford to get it fixed right away or the insurance was taking a long time, if I hit the chair, sometimes it would improve, but only for a minute. Eventually you have to bite the bullet and fix the thing.
@Stegeo3 (199)
• United States
28 Mar 10
I'm sure you're familiar with how many human years that a dog year equals. Well, how about with computers? Before I get ahead of myself, my computer is nearly a decade old (and shows it), so an occasional spanking is administered.
Interestingly, this form of "discipline" does not improve the processing speed of my computer. Rather, spanking my computer allows aggression and impatience to leak out of me.
Perhaps it's time to purchase a punching bag...
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
29 Mar 10
I won't say that hitting the appliance that isn't working right has ever been successful for me in making it work right again, but I will end up hitting something when it isn't doing something that it ought to be doing. I am a person that is very easy to agitate and that is the reason that I will typically resort to smacking something when it isn't working in the way that I think it ought to work.
@arreolabryan (856)
• Philippines
28 Mar 10
Really sometimes it works but in the long run your just adding damage. I smack somethings like the TV and the power supply when they don't work :)
@setsuna26 (2751)
• Philippines
28 Mar 10
Yeah! as funny as it might sound our tv was like that a couple of years ago, like while your watching all of a sudden it will just stop and you need to smack it just a lil bit so that it will run and play again. Until we ran out of patience and just bought a new one instead lol . Same with the old radio that i have i need to smack it hard this time just to make it sing lol, anyways that was the thing of the past but its always good to look back sometimes and think of all those funny stuff that we use to do ;)
@lamborgini8 (6)
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27 Mar 10
Yeah, the "whack it" technique works rather well on electronics! Especially TVs.
Back in the day when everyone has big CRT monitors for their computers, I had one that kept changing the screen colours... So I just whacked the top of the monitor and that solved the problem!
