My favorite story, maybe told here before, is back in the 90s, when men were men and had to be if they wanted to own a 21" monitor. This was the days of more dollars than sense, so I bought one. The box was about half the size of my apartment. I almost killed myself getting it out of the box and up on the desk. Hooked it all up and got it going, and was da man.

I went and got a cup of coffee, sat the cup down, which EVER so slightly tapped the side of the monitor and it went out, and wouldn't come back on. I had to get it back into the box and take it to a local Sony office to get it fixed, and then go back through the whole process again. I kept my coffee cup well away from it from then on.

They said a cable came loose. It's crazy that in all of that struggling and banging around and whatnot to get it unpacked on the desk that it didn't happen, but a tiny tap from a cup did it.