Just over the last few days I’ve had a few problems with the printer….and they’ve all been caused by Max the cat.
The first incident was caused when Max decided he needed to drape himself all over the window sill. This was fine, until he moved and fell off. He bounced off the printer, and landed on the desk next to it, and managed to upset all my piles of paperwork, pens, books, and my box of tissues. He looked rather puzzled that this had happened, but nevertheless settled down next to the printer and went to sleep. He didn’t look at all sorry when some time later I tried to use the printer and discovered it wouldn’t work. I investigated and discovered he had dislodged the USB cable. When that was replaced, it was all systems go.
So he decided this was the in place to sleep. I of course had sorted out my piles of paperwork etc, and generally tidied up, but decided if he was going to sleep there, I’d have to organise things round him, which I did. He had a lovely time sleeping there each day, although he wasn’t terribly impressed when I would actually be using the printer. All went well till I went to use the printer the other day. It turned on fine, but it absolutely refused to feed the paper in. I looked at it closely, but I could not for the life of me work out what was going on to stop it. I must have fiddled with it on and off for a couple of hours, even rebooting the computer from time to time to see whether that would fix things. But no. Then, when I was just about to give up, and leave it till tomorrow, when my brain would (hopefully) work better, and I could find the problem, and even though I had actually looked into the innards of the machine several times before, I saw a pen right down in the workings of the machine. Ah…..now how did that get there, and how am I going to get it out?? So I started fiddling with it anew, and made sure I held my mouth just right, and eventually I managed to get it out. I was still amazed…..turned the machine back on….and off it went! Printing job at last completed.
However I was bamboozled about how the pen got in there. Then the cat came in for his daily sit, and the penny dropped. I had missed this pen in my clean up after his fall from the window sill, and he had managed to edge it in underneath everything while he did his daily wriggle to make everything comfy and fit better into the available space.
I’m so glad I didn’t have to call the technician and say….well….um….I think my cat has put a pen into the printer…..
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