Ever been trolled by an inanimate object?

[StellarViking]

The only thing I will say here is USB cables.

If you possess more than one USB cable, drive, ANYTHING, or have to switch anything like that out even occasionally, then you know what I'm talking about.

 

[The Human Torch]

My vacuum-cleaner. It either gets stuck behind EVERYTHING or it manages to creep close behind me and when I turn around, I stumble over it. Also, when I need it closer and I give it a gentle tug, it dashes towards me like a hungry piranha.

I have many bruises on my ankles.

Fuck vacuum-cleaning.

 

[Akimoto]

The journals I have to read for my exams. The gibberish is atrocious.

And maths. I hate doing maths and as a double troll it's my core subject.

 

[The Last Nomad]

My copy of condemned 2 trolled me a bit. Sound won't work right, keeps cutting out for a second every second second... (Thats an odd sentence) Weird problem I though, so I brought it to Gamestop to see if they knew what le problem was. They agreed it was an odd problem, then they tested it in store, right in front of me. No problems for them and I've tried deleting data and all that kinda stuff. I'm probably gonna just trade it in.

 

[F'Angus]

Got trolled by my watch. It stopped working so I put a new battery in, didn't work either. Bought a third battery which didn't work...

Then I put the original battery back in and it started working immediately..and it's still going and I have two spare expensive batteries Lying around which'll probably get lost because they're so small.

 

[F'Angus]

Also this.

Curse you sir...curse you. Lol

 

[Mauso88]

A couple of years ago my pc wouldn't load to the desktop, so I phoned for support. After being on the phone for over an hour with the tech, my pc boots up right in front of me.

One-upped by a box of circuits.

 

[Kristian Fischer]

Fairly certain that most trolls on Teh Internets qualify as "inanimate objects".

 

[Oshroth]

I used to have a laptop that would require me to start it in safe mode and wait 20-30 minutes before I could start it normally otherwise it would always crash at some point during start-up. This problem only occurred when I was using the laptop at home, if I was at uni or over at a friend's house, then it would work without fail.

A lot of my other expensive electronics have wacky, frustrating quirks like that. Its like a giant conspiracy against me.

 

[thom_cat_]

Spoiler

 

[SckizoBoy]

The cable for my head phones... keep tripping over the damned thing, surprised they've lasted as long as they have... about eight years...

 

[Lieju]

My computer stopped working after downloading some automatic updates or something, and wouldn't even turn on. I took the bus to the nearest repair shop and trekked there through the snow.
And then when the clerk pushed the power-button it worked just fine.

Despite not working for few days, and I had tried several times just before getting it there too.

Also, I'm constantly trolled by captcha. Does that count? Or is it just a sign of the Internet achieving sentience?

 

[Kristian Fischer]

And here's another inanimate object.

Not "lieju", the bot above him.

 

[Timberwolf0924]

A Bar stool in my house. The legs are no wider than your pinkie and I have three of them, the one on the end we named "Pinky Toe Killer" I know, not very creative but at least 20 different people, most likely more, have stubbed their Pinky toe on the damn thing.

 

[PH3NOmenon]

USB

The only thing I will say here is USB cables.

If you possess more than one USB cable, drive, ANYTHING, or have to switch anything like that out even occasionally, then you know what I'm talking about.

A thousand times this. Those things have minds of their own, you try and plug 'em in: won't fit. You flip it around: won't fit... There's only two ways you *can* put it in! What's going on!


If only I could find that comic that said "USB connectors exist in 5 dimensions."

 

[5-0]

My Freesat (satellite TV) box likes to turn itself on and open the menu at about 3AM. Then I get up to turn it off and it goes off by itself. And the bathroom mirror in my house has lights around it which like to turn on by themselves.

 

[Vault101]

my new Ipod nano thingy..aparently if you give it a firm shake it will go to shuffle

and here I was thinking it had grown sentinent and was changing song at ramdom to piss me off

 

[ShindoL Shill]

the radiators in my schools Social Subject corridor do that.
"ah, a nice warm sunny day. wait... the radiators are on."
"fffuuuuuck its ccccolddddd. tttttthe rrrradiatttorssss are offffff."

plus my USB memory stick. i took it into school once, put it in a pocket with a velcro flap and... somehow it jumped out. it turned up in a completely different department two weeks later.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Currently, Skyrim for my PS3.

Keeps freezing during the tutorial. The disk looks perfectly fine, and the PS3 runs everything else fine.

Oh well. I guess I'll spend those hours wishing I had money for Demon+Dark Souls.

I've read about this problem. Uninstalling and reinstalling the Skyrim utility data should fix it.

 

[cahtush]

My headphones, everytime I put them in my pocket.