I’ve just spilled coffee over the keyboard of the laptop and it seems to have short-circuited. Oops.
I am in doubt as to how big a catastrophe this is. I have it, after all, on a home-pc-lease-thingy, in the contract I’ve signed it says clearly that the machine is my employer’s property until I have paid for it, in 36 months – or more, as they haven’t started deducting the part-payments from my salary yet. There is also insurance on it for those three years, but that obviously has the usual “except in case of negligence” clause. Does spilling coffee on your laptop count as negligence? It’s not as if I meant to.