12 Comments on Anybody Ever Drop Their Phone in the Toilet?
About 15 years ago I was at a group training session at work. During a break one of the woman attendees came rushing in to the room and up to the group table and said her phone was acting goofy. A guy at the table grabbed it and while looking at the screen noticed the phone was wet. He asked what happened and she said she dropped it in the toilet. The look on his face was priceless!
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So, THAT’S why guys are transitioning!
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Does anyone remember that crazy woman who dived into an outhouse toilet in Wash. state to rescue her cell phone after she accidentally dropped it into the shitter and had to be rescued by park rangers. I’ve wiped out 2 flip cell phones, once in a urinal when I went answer a call from work and it slipped out of my hands while was taking a pee at a Love’s truck stop and the other time when I didn’t check my pants pocket before doing a load of laundry. Washing machines and cell phones don’t play well together.
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I worked with a guy 33 years ago at a company where we did most comms with our drivers on company pagers. His pager slipped off his belt into the toilet and he almost got fired for it, as he was already on thin ice.
He was a drunk and a fuckup, and his wife later divorced him after he “fell asleep” on the toilet and burned half the house down with a pan of hash browns on the stove. I don’t know what he’s up to now, but I bet he’s dropped at least one phone in the toilet, and possibly a toaster in the bathtub.
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Was at the dragstrip years ago and a guy dropped his keys in the toilet.
Worst of all it was a pit/outhouse setup. One of the track attendants found him a small gardening rake to attempt to find them.
About every 10 minutes you’d see him come out gasping for air and after awhile he’d go back in.
Went on for about an hour when he came out victorious.
He was given a standing ovation from the attendees.
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Thirdtwin – About that same time frame I too had a pager working for the phone company. I would clip it to my belt. I went up into the ladder frame work to do some work. When I came down the vertical side of the ladder rack slipped under the pager and hooked it nice as you please on the ladder rack. So slick I never felt a thing. Later when I realized it was missing I looked everywhere I had been to see where I put it down. So I got one the guys to ring it.
Do you have any idea what it sounds like in a huge room with an 18 foot ceiling? You can plainly hear it, but you can’t locate it! It took a good half hour of ringing it and looking around for it! Then I found it said “Ah ha, I see how it happened!” That never happened again!
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That’s a miserable but appropriate end for a cell phone.
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I thought that I lost the truck keys to a rental van one time when I was making a delivery to a florist in Hamilton, Montana once. I looked high and low and everywhere for those keys for a half hr. or more the assistance of the owner of the flower shop. Finally, after I almost gave up his wife asked me to check the small pocket in my jeans, you know the pocket that is rarely used. Sure, enough that’s where I had stashed the keys in that rarely used small pocket, boy was I embarrassed.
After flushing, my pager, clipped to my belt at the time, sank into the bowl. As the bubbles rose, I pondered: Grab it or flush again. I grabbed it out of the clean water, took it apart and dried it with a heat gun, and life went on. But had I not yet flushed, that pager would have turned up at Blue Planes.
I had a pager go from V street NE to Blue planes…. The deed was done!
If my phone goes in the outhouse, it’s a total loss.
But, I will hyang out around the outhouse and call it when the next guy goes in.
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Not yet. I try to keep it away from areas like that, and I don’t carry it around in public. But, sooner or later….
About 15 years ago I was at a group training session at work. During a break one of the woman attendees came rushing in to the room and up to the group table and said her phone was acting goofy. A guy at the table grabbed it and while looking at the screen noticed the phone was wet. He asked what happened and she said she dropped it in the toilet. The look on his face was priceless!
So, THAT’S why guys are transitioning!
Does anyone remember that crazy woman who dived into an outhouse toilet in Wash. state to rescue her cell phone after she accidentally dropped it into the shitter and had to be rescued by park rangers. I’ve wiped out 2 flip cell phones, once in a urinal when I went answer a call from work and it slipped out of my hands while was taking a pee at a Love’s truck stop and the other time when I didn’t check my pants pocket before doing a load of laundry. Washing machines and cell phones don’t play well together.
I worked with a guy 33 years ago at a company where we did most comms with our drivers on company pagers. His pager slipped off his belt into the toilet and he almost got fired for it, as he was already on thin ice.
He was a drunk and a fuckup, and his wife later divorced him after he “fell asleep” on the toilet and burned half the house down with a pan of hash browns on the stove. I don’t know what he’s up to now, but I bet he’s dropped at least one phone in the toilet, and possibly a toaster in the bathtub.
Was at the dragstrip years ago and a guy dropped his keys in the toilet.
Worst of all it was a pit/outhouse setup. One of the track attendants found him a small gardening rake to attempt to find them.
About every 10 minutes you’d see him come out gasping for air and after awhile he’d go back in.
Went on for about an hour when he came out victorious.
He was given a standing ovation from the attendees.
Thirdtwin – About that same time frame I too had a pager working for the phone company. I would clip it to my belt. I went up into the ladder frame work to do some work. When I came down the vertical side of the ladder rack slipped under the pager and hooked it nice as you please on the ladder rack. So slick I never felt a thing. Later when I realized it was missing I looked everywhere I had been to see where I put it down. So I got one the guys to ring it.
Do you have any idea what it sounds like in a huge room with an 18 foot ceiling? You can plainly hear it, but you can’t locate it! It took a good half hour of ringing it and looking around for it! Then I found it said “Ah ha, I see how it happened!” That never happened again!
That’s a miserable but appropriate end for a cell phone.
I thought that I lost the truck keys to a rental van one time when I was making a delivery to a florist in Hamilton, Montana once. I looked high and low and everywhere for those keys for a half hr. or more the assistance of the owner of the flower shop. Finally, after I almost gave up his wife asked me to check the small pocket in my jeans, you know the pocket that is rarely used. Sure, enough that’s where I had stashed the keys in that rarely used small pocket, boy was I embarrassed.
After flushing, my pager, clipped to my belt at the time, sank into the bowl. As the bubbles rose, I pondered: Grab it or flush again. I grabbed it out of the clean water, took it apart and dried it with a heat gun, and life went on. But had I not yet flushed, that pager would have turned up at Blue Planes.
I had a pager go from V street NE to Blue planes…. The deed was done!
If my phone goes in the outhouse, it’s a total loss.
But, I will hyang out around the outhouse and call it when the next guy goes in.
Not yet. I try to keep it away from areas like that, and I don’t carry it around in public. But, sooner or later….