Hello? Anybody there?
In a rare occurrence, both my roommate and I were home during most of the day on Friday. At one point we were talking as I worked on something in my room and she sat outside in the hallway. She took a call from her Mom on her cell and we talked some more before she made a bathroom stop and then went into her room. About 15 minutes later she started looking for her cell phone again because her and her Mom were going out. She couldn't find it anywhere. We retraced all of her steps and then some. When her Mom arrived she helped us look as we all tried to call the phone. Nothing. I had to leave for work and they went ahead and went out, but with how dependent most of us are on our cell phones anymore - it sucks not to know where it's at.
When I got home from work around 1 a.m. there was a note taped to my door: "Shababbler - I know this is going to suck, but we are 99% sure that I flushed my cell phone down the toilet so please use it as little as possible." In that vicious "oh-thank-goodness-it-didn't-happen-to-me-but-damn-that's-funny-as-hell" way I started laughing my ass off!!!! SHE FLUSHED HER CELL PHONE DOWN THE TOILET!!!!!! We're not just talking dropped and retrieved - we're talking full on flushity-flushed-flushed-flushed!! Oh DAMN - how much does that suck?!?!?!?! But - also funny as hell - hehehehehe!!! Since it was so late the only person I could call to tell was my brother, but in the couple of days since I have announced it to the masses because I find it horribly amusing.
Her step-dad came over the next day to try to get it out - ya she won't be able to use it anymore (unless it has superhero-sewer-fighting powers given by the gods of Verizon), but her house has one bathroom and it's pretty old so that little phone can't have been a bonus to the already tempermental plumbing! Some other guys came over to help and as they worked on things every so often her stepdad would call down the toilet asking "Can you hear me now?!" Hehe. When I got home that night the toilet was reattached and up and running, but I have no idea if they found the phone (I assume they did) or what kind of condition it was in. Talk about a crappy situation - hehe ;-p!!!!
When I got home from work around 1 a.m. there was a note taped to my door: "Shababbler - I know this is going to suck, but we are 99% sure that I flushed my cell phone down the toilet so please use it as little as possible." In that vicious "oh-thank-goodness-it-didn't-happen-to-me-but-damn-that's-funny-as-hell" way I started laughing my ass off!!!! SHE FLUSHED HER CELL PHONE DOWN THE TOILET!!!!!! We're not just talking dropped and retrieved - we're talking full on flushity-flushed-flushed-flushed!! Oh DAMN - how much does that suck?!?!?!?! But - also funny as hell - hehehehehe!!! Since it was so late the only person I could call to tell was my brother, but in the couple of days since I have announced it to the masses because I find it horribly amusing.
Her step-dad came over the next day to try to get it out - ya she won't be able to use it anymore (unless it has superhero-sewer-fighting powers given by the gods of Verizon), but her house has one bathroom and it's pretty old so that little phone can't have been a bonus to the already tempermental plumbing! Some other guys came over to help and as they worked on things every so often her stepdad would call down the toilet asking "Can you hear me now?!" Hehe. When I got home that night the toilet was reattached and up and running, but I have no idea if they found the phone (I assume they did) or what kind of condition it was in. Talk about a crappy situation - hehe ;-p!!!!
posted by The Shababbler at 2:30 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out how to recreate the steps needed to accidentally flush my phone down the toilet. Maybe I can do that when work gets really hectic.
So, umm why did they go through all that trouble? I mean I've destroyed phones before. Did she need it for phone insurance or something?
Ya - it's kind of hard to comprehend how someone could not only go as far as to flush, but not realize for several hours that they had done just that.
They went to all of the trouble because her house is old and the plumbing ain't that great to begin with - so the phone was going to be messing things up further down. Even though it had been successfully flushed - it wasn't flushing after that.
Gee, if a cell phone would gum up the works, remind me not to "do my business" there. I'm thinking I could single-handedly mess up the plumbing there. ;)
Well, the thought that it would never decompose is part of the problem - I would hope your "business" isn't that sturdy ;-p.
Maybe I'd better stock up on some of those cool fiber tabs they have at WalMart which look and taste like giant Smarties.
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