I'm conflicted all the time. Do I take my empeg out of the dash or not? ~99% of the time Tony's admonition does it's trick, and I pull it out (the rest of the time I'm going into Quicky Mart)

Today, following my usual, "But it's such a PITA." debate I took it out and put it in my laptop bag. I go into a nice little restaraunt with a hardwood floor. Flipping Open my laptop bag rather forcefully a rather loud "BANG" can be heard through out the restaraunt.

OH

[censored].

I rushed outside to check the damage. The little bugger booted right up and started playing as though notthing had happened.

When weighing possible theft vs. almost certain destruction at my hands... It's going in the trunk from now on...