The Peanut Butter + Keyboard Tragedy...Question

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  • Redbird99ky
    Redbird99ky Posts: 305 Member
    I have a ThinkPad, so I'd just take the keyboard off and clean it up with some hot soapy water (use Dawn) , rinse it really well under hot running water, then hit it with a blowdryer for a bit ... but ... not everyone has a ThinkPad.
  • SomerAngel
    SomerAngel Posts: 12 Member
    It wouldnt matter if the keys where swapped around mom I dont look at the key board when I type :P...... Thanks for all the methods ill usea tooth brush and Q tip to remove the remaining evidence... mean while mom I ban you from eating peanut butter near my lap top :)
  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    It wouldnt matter if the keys where swapped around mom I dont look at the key board when I type :P...... Thanks for all the methods ill usea tooth brush and Q tip to remove the remaining evidence... mean while mom I ban you from eating peanut butter near my lap top :)

    It's not like I killed it :grumble:
  • justgowithit17
    justgowithit17 Posts: 1,392 Member
    i use hand wipes to clean junk off my computer...it works really well! also, try the q-tips with rubbing alcohol!
  • irjeffb
    irjeffb Posts: 275 Member
    you can get a new keyboard for $10
    Not on a laptop, you can't.
  • irjeffb
    irjeffb Posts: 275 Member
    It wouldnt matter if the keys where swapped around mom I dont look at the key board when I type :P...... Thanks for all the methods ill usea tooth brush and Q tip to remove the remaining evidence... mean while mom I ban you from eating peanut butter near my lap top :)
    Busted!!! Love it! :)
  • mumof5
    mumof5 Posts: 328 Member
    hypothetically speaking...if i was in the room when it happened i would have spat my coffee all over you and choked on what little was left in my mouth while rolling around the floor laughing....hypothetically speaking of course 8D
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    You in trouble! Hypothetically of course.
  • annabellj
    annabellj Posts: 1,337 Member
    No water, no soap. I know that much.

    You can also pop the keys of the keyboard off but you have to be very careful doing that.


    and if you do this, remember to put them back on in the right okace. i mean "place"

    But I like to create challenges for my children. It keeps them on their toes. I may have to rearrange all the letters, just for fun!
    thats hysterical! my husband kept saying, i cant get into your email. why not? did you change your password? nope. i got home and he was pressing the wrong keys. the ones i use all the time of course the letters were almost gone. the keys are in the same place they have been forever! thanks to my typing class in high school i know that but he uses the hunt n peck method!
  • snoopytwins
    snoopytwins Posts: 1,759 Member
    Lie...peanut butter? What peanut butter?
  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    Lie...peanut butter? What peanut butter?

    I seriously considered the shark method. If I could just get the shark to eat the whole computer, any evidence of peanut butter would be gone....then I figured the keepers at SeaWorld would probably get pissed if I kept trying to feed Shamu a computer. <sigh> Such as life. I had to fess up.
  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    hypothetically speaking...if i was in the room when it happened i would have spat my coffee all over you and choked on what little was left in my mouth while rolling around the floor laughing....hypothetically speaking of course 8D

    You should have seen it! The toast stood up and took a slow motion swan dive directly at the computer! I could only stare in amazement....and horror! Damn, I just made that toast and now it's gonna get cold while I clean up the mess. Some days you're just better off staying in bed :tongue:
  • SomerAngel
    SomerAngel Posts: 12 Member
    I actually would have loved to be a fly on the wall just to see your reaction. =)
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    You've gotten great advice for cleaning it. Years ago I spilled orange juice on my big fancy office phone. I wiped it down, but the buttons always stuck after that. I removed the little card where you are supposed to write important numbers and wrote the following: "Note: Do not spill orange juice into phones."
  • Coffeeholic8
    Coffeeholic8 Posts: 272 Member
    Deny all knowledge and get the kid to clean it. Easy.
  • SomerAngel
    SomerAngel Posts: 12 Member
    You've gotten great advice for cleaning it. Years ago I spilled orange juice on my big fancy office phone. I wiped it down, but the buttons always stuck after that. I removed the little card where you are supposed to write important numbers and wrote the following: "Note: Do not spill orange juice into phones."

    Hahah thats awesome!!!
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Take the laptop outside, set up a video camera, video yourself going on a rant about your daughter being irresponsible and eating peanut buttered toast at her computer. Then pull out your gun, and shoot the computer. Post said video on YouTube and on your Facebook and then you can show her what happened because she won't be able to see it to her self.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Take it apart and clean it with high proof rubbing alcohol. It's relatively safe on electronic parts.


    OR

    Take the laptop outside, set up a video camera, video yourself going on a rant about your daughter being irresponsible and eating peanut buttered toast at her computer. Then pull out your gun, and shoot the computer. Post said video on YouTube and on your Facebook and then you can show her what happened because she won't be able to see it to her self.
  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    Take the laptop outside, set up a video camera, video yourself going on a rant about your daughter being irresponsible and eating peanut buttered toast at her computer. Then pull out your gun, and shoot the computer. Post said video on YouTube and on your Facebook and then you can show her what happened because she won't be able to see it to her self.

    She's an adult, so that wouldn't have quite the same impact as the father teaching his teenager a lesson...I'd just come off looking like a complete whack job! Of course, the video of them carting me away in a straight jacket has definite potential for youtube gold <hmmmm how much does she really like that computer anyway??>
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Now that it has peanut butter on it, the laptop is actually edible (and delicious). I say have it for lunch tomorrow.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Take the laptop outside, set up a video camera, video yourself going on a rant about your daughter being irresponsible and eating peanut buttered toast at her computer. Then pull out your gun, and shoot the computer. Post said video on YouTube and on your Facebook and then you can show her what happened because she won't be able to see it to her self.

    She's an adult, so that wouldn't have quite the same impact as the father teaching his teenager a lesson...I'd just come off looking like a complete whack job! Of course, the video of them carting me away in a straight jacket has definite potential for youtube gold <hmmmm how much does she really like that computer anyway??>

    IN that case

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  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    Now that it has peanut butter on it, the laptop is actually edible (and delicious). I say have it for lunch tomorrow.

    But does peanut butter have any disinfectant type properties...because, again, we're back to me actually putting my tongue on something my kids' hands have been on. Oh hell, who am I kidding...I've eaten worse, and there is peanut butter involved after all.
  • dave4d
    dave4d Posts: 1,155 Member
    Does your daughter have a brother, or sister? You could blame it on them...:wink:
  • SomerAngel
    SomerAngel Posts: 12 Member
    To late to that David she's already fessed up.. She could have easily blammed it on my brother, I would have believed her. =)