Pop goes the router
Nooo! Not again. After waiting patiently for more than 10 days to get my Netgear router from the US, I was so excited to test it out that I plugged it into the mains without reading the voltage readings on it 
Result: The acrid taste of burning circuits and expressions of “Doh! Doh! Doh!” reverberating across the hallway.
Luckily, in my excitement I had not plugged in the router to the power adapter so the adapter was the only damaged component. I’ll have to go back to Hawally to shop for a replacement adapter.
And this is not the first time I have done this. I have a history with electronics and high voltages. My first one was a Dell desktop I brought back to Kuwait when I was in college and I managed to fry the power supply because I forgot to switch the voltage jumper from 110 to 240. That one resulted in a mighty bang and lots of fireworks. Luckily the damage stopped at the power supply and didn’t harm the motherboard.
The next one to go was my digital camera. After carefully reading the jargon on the power adapter, I plugged in the docking station of my digital camera into the socket only to see it go up in smoke.
And now this router. Final score: me 0 – electricity 3
