When was the worst possible time that you experienced hardware failure?

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Computers are a great thing, that have helped make our lives a little bit easier. With that being said, they can in fact fail at the absolute worst possible times imaginable. Certain parts of the hard ware especially. The monitor goes dead, the printer won't work, speakers stop giving sound, whatever you want. Of course, the worst possible thing is the hard drive crashing. So have any horror stories of having experienced hardware failure at the worst possible times? I think my hard drive crashing the week that an important paper was due for a class was one of them. Thankfully, I had most, about ninety five percent of the paper backed up and I could complete it and print it off at another computer, but still, five percent of the work was lost. I am sure that many people have lost everything, due to foolishly not backing up their work. Anyway, what is the worst possible time that you experienced hardware failure of any kind? Looking forward to reading your response.