I was woken by my alarm this morning as normal. I did my usual thing of reaching for my glasses only, as I did so, hit the side of my clock with a glancing blow. The alarm stopped. I focused my eyes onto the clock, and noticed it had reset itself – totally. The whole clock had reset. Time, date, alarms, everything. It’s not like I hit it that hard! I can only assume I dislodged the battery as I hit it or something.
My general experience of electronics is that hitting them doesn’t do anything. It might make you feel better if it’s playing up, but otherwise, it doesn’t have much effect. I dropped my iPod today getting it out of my bag – as I lifted it out, I caught it on the edge, and ended up just holding the headphones. As they were wrapped around it, it all unravelled like a yoyo and crashed to the floor, landing flat on its back. From what I can see, it’s still working. It was off when I did it, so it probably didn’t damage it.
Yet I hit my clock with my glasses case and it resets – the mind boggles sometimes!