Starting 2010 with a Splash!

I have been SO GOOD at decreasing my online time and spending more time in the real world.

*COUGH*COUGH**BULLSHIT*COUGH*COUGH*

There is ANOTHER story to go with my outing to the Tegan and Sara concert. I think I was just in denial, a little post-traumatic stress disorder.

With the millions of gift cards that my Man and I have floating in our wallets, we never go out re: our kids are not stellar at restaurants saga, we decided to use one to have dinner beforehand.

We were also trying out a new babysitter. Who my son thought was "COOL cause he's a BOY like ME!" And since I can hardly hear my phone normally, I thought that I would put it in my back pocket, so at least I would hear it vibe, just in case the new sitter called with any questions. I always re-iterate to the sitter, ANY question is a GOOD question, I want them to call if they are not sure, about, well anything.

So we had left the restaurant and were heading back to the truck. We still had at least a 10 minute drive to downtown Van, so I thought I better pop-back to the restaurant and use the bathroom. And then it happened.

I went to drop my pants to go, and SPLASH!

Puzzled I looked into the toliet. There right in the bottom, middle of the toliet lay my red Hello Kitty encased iPhone! GAH! I reached right in and grabbed it out, feverishly drying it off with toliet paper.

It was soaked. Luckily I was slightly numbed by the two Keg size glasses of white wine, as my eyes welled up with tears.

I will not cry over a phone. I will not cry over a phone.

I hurriedly went pee while I stripped down my phone from it's HK casing. Already it was blinking messages informing me that "this device is not compatible".

NOoooooOOooooooOOOOOooo.

I got back in the truck. Immediately, the Man threw me the puzzled look. He knew something was wrong. I informed him I dropped the phone in the toliet. He tried to refrain from laughing hysterically, but I could tell he was SO laughing with his eyes, as he let out a slight snicker as he shook his head and stated "only you".

Calmly he Googled "dropping iPhone in toliet fix" on his phone, of course he would pick that EXACT phrase, so EYE laughing. The first thing that came up was "Sure fire fix for dropped iPhone in toliet 'Stop talking on the phone when your pissing DUMMY!'" Yah, Ha! I blurted out to the Google search, "IT was in my back pocket!I wasn't pissing YET!", SO SO laughing with his eyes.

Then I realized that I was not alone in this dilemma as there were 349,000 results for this search. Not to mention the 1,810,000 of those who 'dropped iphone in water fix' and perhaps half of those are toliet water people, who just do not want to ADMIT that toliet water is now in their phone.

EWWW toliet water, I am so immature.

All throughout the concert, my Man was shaking my phone, and TW kept coming out of it. Double EWWW!

The next fix involved rice. So I put it in a bag of rice, um , nothing. Except I had to buy some tweezers to pluck the rice out of the charger area. Stupid rice.

I ebayed, googled, and did my best to find a solution. I soon realized that lying to my cell phone supplier would not work either, as they have some sort of strip that will turn pink, knowing that water damage has occured.

DAMN you Apple.

Current status of iPhone: it works, but the screen is super dim & camera does not work.

Taking it in to see if I can get it fixed. I know you can get a new LCD, but let us hope that I can get a phone replacement.

I feel so LOST without it, even though my Ghetta Jetta does not have bluetooth, and it is now officially against the law to talk on your phone while driving, I am so missing all those Apps, that help me kill time when waiting in line, everywhere.

Just so you know, I did not cry over my iPhone, the water damage is strictly of the toliet kind.

Oh iPhone, best buddy, I miss you. Come back to me soon.