Defective Mjolnir

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I got myself a Mjolnir USB flash drive from Jollibee just in time for the opening of Thor: The Dark World. The Cheesy Bacon Champ was my main purpose for going to Jollibee. Apparently, I only needed to add 95 pesos on top of the CBC meal price. I was like a kid opening the free toy of a kiddie meal when I got the flash drive. It was shaped like Thor’s hammer (Mjolnir), and the top comes off to reveal the USB connector. It was so fucking cool. It only had a 1GB capacity, but who the hell cares? Its Thor’s fucking hammer!

When I got home, I immediately tried it out. This is the first thing that popped up when I plugged the flash drive in:


I thought to myself, maybe because it’s new that’s why the computer needs to format it so it would be compatible. Yeah, just keep telling yourself that, said another voice inside my head.

I waited for the formatting to finish, but instead of a “format successful” message this came up:



Oh shit.

I checked the properties and this is what I got:



Fuck.

I thought of returning the stupid thing but the packaging (which I ripped out of excitement) and receipt is already in a trash can at the Jollibee store, on its way to who knows where. At the end of the day, all I ended up having is a 95-peso Mjolnir paper weight.


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