Oh my. The title says it all. Yesterday afternoon I had my iPhone in my back pants pocket when I went to the bathroom. Thankfully I was at home and thankfully I had cleaned the toilet within the last 24 hours. Thankfully there was nothing in the toilet (like pee). I heard a PLONK and I realized what had happened. My phone was in the toilet!
I quickly pulled it out, dried it off with a hand towel, washed my hands with lots of soap, (pause here for my to pee and rewash my hands) and immediately went to the kitchen and poured about 3 cups of uncooked rice in a ziplock bag and stuffed my phone with the rice.
An hour later I hear quacking. (My ringtone is quacking.) Someone was calling me. I didn't answer. I was relieved the phone was working but was worried the call would short circuit the innards of the phone. I called Hendrik. He told me to power off the phone. I did. I then tried to find the phone number of the person who called me. It took my 10 minutes to track down her number…I need to have a hard copy of my contacts somewhere!
About 3 hours after that, Anthony was looking at the phone through the ziplock bag and amid the rice. He powered it up by accident! It powered up. I quickly powered it off. I have hope tha the phone will survive. Advice from the internet said to leave it in the rice for 48 hours before trying to turn it on. I will wait. Until then…I feel like I am missing something (like a limb, ha ha).
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