It's one of those occasions where I offer a piece of relevant advice to all my blog peeps out there. Today's lesson is this:
Never try to answer your cell phone while standing at a urinal
I will label this Casey's law # 6
I have been a bit harried at work this past week, and the damn thing never seemed to stop ringing at the most inopportune times. I was expecting an important message, and I know I should have let it go to the voice mail.
But as we all know, I can at times, be an idiot. The phone slipped from my grasp and splashed into a place from which i did not want it to go. So what did I do?
I went to the Janitor's closet and grabbed a pair of rubber gloves, and a bucket. I dug it out, dropped it in the bucket, and then put about a gallon of water in, and then a cup of bleach. I let it sit for an hour. You ever hear a phone ring when it is in water? It's weird, it reminded me of the tsunami I launched on Ripple tank town during a high school physics experiment more than 30 years ago. It had to do with sound waves dispersing across water. I couldn't emulate that noise with my lips no matter how hard I tried.
After about an hour, and about a dozen unanswered calls, I dumped out the bucket in the janitor's closet sink and ran water on the phone for a few minutes. Then I wiped the phone down with a terry cloth towel.
She's still working! The color faded a bit, but as long as she's working, who cares!
I've had it more than two years, I'm due for a new one in a month or so. Think I should tell them what happened? I'll bet Mrs C never uses it again!
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5 comments:
you are an idiot! But I love you.
But I'm your idiot!
My husband did that once also.If you take the cover off the battery and take the battery out there is probably a sticker that turned red once it got wet. Thats how the phone companies can tell if a phone got wet. I also ran over his phone!!
Reminds me of phone calls I get from people (or people who answer my calls) and I hear the toilet flush at some point on the conversation.
I've washed my husbands phone a few times over the years. I am always amazed that they still work.
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