Plop! Oh No! I Dropped My Cell Phone In The…
Good Afternoon. I hope you are having a good Tuesday. I have nothing heavy today, just a short little “What Would You Do” question. Here’s the dilemma. Let me set it up.
You are at work and you go to the bathroom while you are in the middle of a texting conversation with a family member. You take your phone and go to the bathroom. You really have to go! The only stall available has leftovers from the person before you! And I mean food leftovers not liquid leftovers. How disgusting! You are angry but what can you do but flush and do your business, with your cell in hand. When you are done, you begin to fasten your clothes. You put your cell under your chin, for a few seconds. Right before you are about to flush, your phone falls in the toilet. OMG! What do you do? Do you fish it out or do you scream or do you cry or do you go get someone else or do you FLUSH! Lol. What do you do?
This is your familiar work restroom where the debris in the commode before you was at least debris from someone you know. What if the same thing happened when you were at a rest area or a football game or a gas station? Lord have mercy! I had a friend who once told me this same story except his was binoculars. He left them there!
So….it’s your cell phone looking up at you in the toilet, with your own body waste in the toilet, following body waste from the mystery person before you. Tell me, What Would You Do!
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If you’re at work, go to the janitorial closet, get the plastic gloves and dive in. The disgust is better than the alternative of just flushing away a phone that may have cost anywhere from $150-$300.
If you’re in public , whew, that’s a hard call. You may have to seek out help. I’m not really sure if they actually flush but I’m certain the location you’re at would appreciate you asking them to remove it instead of you trying to flush it and messing up their system. The thought is horrible, but it happens pretty frequently from what I hear. I’m sure the cell phone companies are used to it happening too.
I am sure the cell phone companies have heard this over and over! I have come close to dropping mine and panicked thinking about being without it and having to go through the process of reprogramming a new one, etc.
First of all, you have to get it out. It is your cell phone and I couldn’t just leave it there. I really have to do this since I have the jesus phone – when I say jesus phone (lower case “j”) I just mean something that is the top…the head and not the tail…:D
Anyway, cell phone companies can tell when your phone has got wet. Most batteries have a water indicator that will show when it has been wet. Also remember to take the battery off and let the phone dry out for a day or two. Yes, I know that is a long time, but you just got the electronics inside wet. Taking the battery off lets it dry quicker and removes all power to the internal circuits. Water and powered circuits do not mix.
.-= Tom Sawyer´s last blog ..Wordplay Wednesday – September 2, 2009 =-.
If it were my phone I wouldn’t even have thought twice about it and grabbed it out of the toilet ASAP! I couldn’t imagine leaving it there or having to pay for another one. I had to blow dry a phone before and I would have no shame doing it again! I would just make sure to wash my hands really, really good before I left the bathroom.
Hi Kelsey. Yep, me too! Get my phone. Years ago my cousin taught me a good lesson when she killed a roach with her bare hand, you can ALWAYS wash your hands but there are just certain things you just can’t let get away! Roaches and cell phones!
This would be something I would REALLY have to think about. I might just leave mine there. Working at a cell phone company for three years, nine times out of ten you will never have a fully functioning phone again…if it works at all..THE WORST is when a customer comes into the store and says “somethings wrong with my phone” then hand me the phone and then says “i dropped it in the toilet!!!!!!” WHY wouldnt you tell me that upfront??!!?!? SO me being me (and grossed out because i dont know you from adam) i immediately sanitize my hands (yes in front of them) after handing them their phone back. (puke!) For me, im convinced the phone is pretty much over, and I would leave it there. There are toooooo many germs and nasty, triflin, yucky people out here and I dont have time to be cathcing some weird disease I have never heard of through some one elses waste! EEEEWWWW! Yes, Il pay the $50 insurance deductible!
@Kourtney – lol. Guess I need to get the insurance!