When he got the "fatal error" message he thought the computer was going to blow up. The term "fatal" has a dire ring to it for most people so I can't blame him for thinking something dire was going to happen to his machine. I don't think he fled his house when he got the message but I'm sure he was a little weary about touching the computer for awhile afterwards
I agree that the ''fatal error'' message gets your attention. First time you get that one. You think that you've done did something to destroy your very expensive computer and you feel like doing this
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