In Case You Were Wondering…

If you’re like me, someone who is frequently a klutz, then you probably can understand or slightly relate to the following story.

For breakfast this morning, My family and I went to Bob Evans. This location wasn’t our favorite one, but was convenient for the day. I was excited because this was the last weekend my whole family could spend together before the exciting day of August 28th. Well….as if my summer couldn’t get interesting, it did today. =) I ordered a nice, tall glass of water with lemon just before the main course. I’m the kind of person who loves to talk and have fun over a good meal. It just so happened that my brother’s were sitting across from me and I was showing my older brother my cool new background for my phone. I got the word ‘peace’ in Chinese symbols. I then wanted to show my younger brother the same thing. That’s when the worst thing happened. I somehow dropped my phone into the tall, glass of water with lemon!!! =(
I don’t even know how it happened. It’s like a blur now.  BLOOP…that sound horrifies me to this very moment! It was just floating in the cup for a good 10-15 seconds. My brothers started laughing their faces off at me. I could not believe it! I have never dropped my phone in water up until this point. It was terrible. I fished it out like any good fisherman would. I just stared at it…I was hoping it wasn’t the end of 3 month relationship.

The pink dots on the phone and battery mean water damage....not covered by insurance!

Those keys were useless for about a good 3 hours

So later in the day I went to the Verizon store. The guy was very helpful. He didn’t exactly give me good news but the fact that he actually tried to helped was nice. He even asked me about MVNU! =) He suggested that I try the ‘Rice Remedy’. I was skeptical. He said that I should put phone in a bag of rice for a couple hours because the rice will absorb the moisture. “Hahahaha” was my first reaction. He gave me another option, buying another phone which was priced at $300. So at that point, the rice wasn’t sounding too bad.

So the point behind this post is that, if ever your phone, or your whole texting life, or your primary most important means  of communication, ever becomes engulfed in liquid…rice works!!! My phone has not only risen from the dead, but it is slowly but surely functioning like normal. That a girl!!!

instead of a plastic bag, I found a plastic container to be more reliable

funny thing is...some of those rice pieces were wet..and the napkin at the bottom actually caught some water

nothing good ole 'rice in a bowl' couldn't fix ;P

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