I had a hard time buying a laptop in Austin, Texas because strange error messages on the North Austin Fry's credit card authorization system kept repeating "Do Not Honor" even while on the phone with a Chase Bank rep telling us to "try it again... try it again.. I don't understand..." My credit card payment was not overdue, and I do not recall the last time I made a late payment
Then I tried my bank debit card linked to an account with a positive balance and the Fry's cashier's Windows PC crashed.
Back to the credit card... Finally, the Chase employee was kind and said "Ok, I'll override the security authorization protocol".
Admittedly it was cheap (the PC), the cheapest I could find, as all I wanted to do with it was run word processing software. Anyway, I took it with me on my flight to my San Jose residence on July 29, 2015, and the next day, having decided to take it with me wherever I go, I set it down next to me at the table in a coffee shop (the location of these July 30 photos).
Suddenly this guy walks in with a wheeled cart piled with what I recall to be a suitcase, a briefcase, a box of dried spaghetti with strands hanging out of it, clothes, and who knows what else. He then goes about hooking up a black device's charging unit to the wall socket right next to me, and sets the phone (?) down on the floor right next to me and walks off. The vertical angle of the last two photos do indeed show it (bottom center) is on the ground, right next to me.
I go home and turned on my brand new laptop to find the Boot Sector is missing. It was there before my trip to the coffee shop.
