1 Vacuum cleaner snagged the cable. Cable pulled the laptop off the desk. Laptop fell about 3 feet. Panicked vacuum driver managed to get a hand on it to slow it down. Impact was on the corner where the cable entered the port. Cable died. Computer did not. Phew.
2 Before we run to the Apple store we need to gas up. Not all the way up. Up as far as the new pre-auth limit will let us.