Does anyone know what this is?

That just so happens to be Rich’s laptop.

Any guesses as to why it is laying flat open like that?

Well, apparently if a toddler grabs a hold of a laptop screen and pulls backwards on the screen really hard it can cause permanent damage.  To the laptop that is.  Not the toddler.  No toddlers were harmed during this experiment.

Now the screen will not stay up, it either slams closed or falls backwards like it is in the picture.

So I suggested maybe using some duct tape- put the screen at the correct angle, attach some duct tape it to the screen and then to the keyboard part- and it would hold the screen up.  Rich looked at me like I was a crazy, stupid girl.

I asked Rich if I could please take a picture before he fixed it.  I was trying not to laugh, but it was one of those times that I just couldn’t help myself.

He said “NO!”  I told him that someday he might be able to laugh about it and he would surely want a picture to look back on.  He repeated his previous answer “NO!”

Rich’s laptop is a couple of years old and he has been looking for a new one anyways, so I’m not sure why he can’t find the humor in all of this.

So, Rich took the laptop apart trying to figure out how to make the screen stay up.  He couldn’t fix it.

While Rich was off looking for some duct tape I took a quick picture.  I haven’t had a chance to sneak another picture now that it is “fixed.”  But I will take one and I will post it as soon as possible.

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