It has always been a wonderful experience for me to borrow stuffs from my buddies and not to return them entirely. I actually happened to form an intense amount of platonic love towards the borrowed items as soon as I became the “owner”. The last addition to this personal love line was a DVD drive which I borrowed from my previous room mate (with whom I managed to develop a very intimate-non-gay relationship).

However, last week he politely asked me for it and I unplugged the dvd drive from my pc with somewhat an unhappy gesture. I guess my poor four year old pentium did not like it (who wants to donate organs these days particularly when alive?). The machine started behaving abnormally annoying which can be only titled as “Denial of service attack on unauthorised organ detachment”.

Here what is happening:

1. every 10 minutes I am being “awarded” with a bonus pop up window saying- “holding down the shift key for blah blah blah….”

2. every now and then my old CD drive is ejecting itself automatically (is it missing it’s old buddy?)

3. The monitor is decorating itself with different colors in its four corners (may be he is happy to loose the dvd). It did not happen before the “detachment”.

4. The floppy drive and USB port are now on an complete-hibernate-stage. They are simply reluctant to respond. (working last week though)

I have decided to buy a new DVD drive and more importantly made up my mind to give up this successful “borrowing” career.