[MarcoBiscotti]

I feel like such an idiot.

I just ordered barbecue chicken and sat down to watch some episodes of Rocky & Bullwinkle and upon uncovering the lid of gravy, I fumbeled and it slid out of my hands and launched in the direction of my DVD shelf splashing half the wall and completely drenching at least 20 of my DVD's including some expensive boxsets.

I made a mad dash into the kitchen to grab some towels but it was too late... the sauce seeped right under the keepcases completely ruining the covers to Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest, The Pink Panther Film Collection, LOTR Return Of The King digipack that was left out, my Hitchcock Criterion box, Dead Man, a handful of titles under the Fox Classics series and others..


Plus my lunch was ruined cause I have no sauce for my chicken now.





I tried to take the cover slips out to blow dry but they look like they have brownish yellow coffee stains on them and have that hard wrinkled texture that they get from wetting.


I'm so pissed off at myself right now!!!

I wish I could go back 15 minutes and have avoided that.

[Travis Brashear]

Holy Christ, how I feel for you...

[David Williams]

My condolences. At least the DVDs themselves are okay, even if the covers are ruined. At least some of them might be replaceable through those cover art sites.

Your days don't seem to be getting better... who exactly did you piss off in the grand scheme of things?

[JohnMor]

Marco: My condolences. I hate when I do things like that. It's worth trying some cover art sites, or scanning and repairing if you have that capability.

[MarcoBiscotti]

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Your days don't seem to be getting better... who exactly did you piss off in the grand scheme of things?

I was just asking myself this, Dave.


I feel like my stomach has sunk into my knees.

[MarcoBiscotti]

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Marco: My condolences. I hate when I do things like that. It's worth trying some cover art sites, or scanning and repairing if you have that capability.

Thanks, I'm such a stickler for this sort of thing though. I literally spend 15 minutes in retail each week inspecting every DVD I purchase for the most minor and insignificant of flaws.

I think I'll end up listing these on Ebay and rebuying them eventually. I've cleaned off the keepcases so that they're not sticky and disgusting anymore, but the covers are totally ruined and some even seeped in and messed up the inserts as well. I just counted 15 in total and 2 have been salvaged.

I was thinking something stupid like this was bound to happen while struggling with that lid. If I would've just took an extra 10 seconds to walk into the kitchen and be a little more careful...

ahhh!!!

[Adam_S]

don't feel too bad, it's just the cases, too bad you can't replace them with DVDcoverart anymore

Anyway I did much worse last week--wiping out my whole harddrive and years of data. I'd not been able to get DVD profiler to work for a couple months, anytime the new version installed it refused to boot up. So it was late, about 3AM and I decided just to clear the thing out and try it from scratch. So I uninstalled, then went into program files and erased all the DVD profiler stuff, including apparently some important DLL files (man I was an idiot, the first thing I learned about PCs years and years ago is to never delete files left around following an uninstall). I didn't just dump it in the recycle bin, nope I erased it, with an overwrite program, idiot that I am. Then DVD profiler installed and updated with no problems, I turned off my computer and went to bed.

Next morning it wouldn't turn on, wouldn't go any of the three safe modes, so you couldn't get to command prompt and last known good configuration wouldn't work. I cursed it and some time later recruited someone to help fix it last night. Well 3.5 hours later still hadn't managed to fix it, the best we were able to do was reinstall windows, unfortunately we failed to realize that all the stuff I wanted to save was in my documents which was somewhat overwritten. now I can get to the old my documents folder for whatever reason but it says it has zero bytes but access is forbidden to open it. It's also forbidden to get a dir on it from DOS and we couldn't seem to access it, so now I'm looking at pro data recovery places to get my info back since the amount of data on my harddrive is approx still the same so the info is still there.

Heh, my DVD collection ruined my computer.

[MarcoBiscotti]

That sucks Adam, I'm glad I never got into that whole DVDProfiler thing. I never saw the point... I keep a simple and organized notepad file that I email to myself whenever I update my list. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you're able to recover your files.

[BrettB]

Hope everything works out for the best Marco.

But I have to ask about this;

"gravy" on "barbecue chicken"?

[MarcoBiscotti]

Really, that isn't a common convention... maybe it's just a Canadian thing than?

BBQ chicken breast, fries, bun, gravy and coleslaw.


Anyways, I wish I'd ordered pizza.

[Bruce Morrison]

Sorry to hear about your mishap. But don't you have your home contents insured? If you do, this is exactly what you're paying those premiums for! OK maybe you were careless, but it's still an accident and therefore a valid insurance claim.

[MarcoBiscotti]

would spilling my lunch on my DVD's really be a valid ins. claim and how would it affect my policy?

I imagine an inspector would have to come over to inspect my DVD cases and would likely laugh at me.

As painfully upsetting as this is for me, I think that might be extreme...

[Bruce Morrison]

Yes of course it's a valid claim - it's accidental damage of your home contents. Home contents insurance policies usually cover accidental damage in the home as well as losses due to fire, flood or theft. Your policy will probably have a deductible (or excess) amount that would be deducted from the value of the claim, but it should still be worth making a claim in this case.

And I doubt that your insurers would go to the trouble of sending out a claims adjuster in this case - their adjusters are usually far too busy dealing with really major losses!