So, today my phone decided to go swimming. She had tried to do this a few times before but never quite made it all the way in. This time she slid right into the potty at TJ Maxx!
Now before you question why I was using my phone while going potty, I wasn't! I had her safely stored in my winter coat pocket, but she somehow snuck out and before I could catch her she was diving in feet first.
I quickly rescued her, said a couple swear words, (I'm sure the person in the stall next to me wondered what was going on), and hurried out of the stall. I was planning to stick her under the hand dryer but there wasn't one so I grabbed a couple paper towels, toweled her off and hurried out of the store.
I was scared to even look at my phone because I knew it was toast so I just turned it off. I remembered hearing if you ever drop your iphone in water you should put it in a bag of rice to help absorb the water and hopefully save your phone. I drove to Wal-Mart and sprinted to the rice aisle.
I had a decision to make. I didn't know what kind of rice I needed to get: brown rice, white rice, organic...I decided to go with the old standby and grabbed an 84 cent bag of white rice. Definitely my cheapest trip to Wal-Mart ever! What's even more funny is I did self check out and picked the machine that would only take credit cards so I now have an 84 cent charge on my credit card. Justin will love that.
I opened the rice in the parking lot, pouring half of it out, and shoved my phone in the bag. The only problem was I didn't really know how long I needed to leave the phone in the rice. Plus, dialysis units and my office use my phone to get a hold of me during the day so I couldn't leave it off the rest of the day. Of course I had no idea what the phone numbers were to these units so I could tell them my phone wasn't working...Who memorizes phone numbers anymore? And what phone would I use to call them with? Dang, what did we do before cell phones?
So I went to plan B. Since I was out near Jordan Creek I ventured to the Apple Store. They told me it would be an hour wait so I was FORCED to shop for an hour while I waited for them to look at my phone.
Finally an hour was up and the friendly Apple employee went to work on my phone. Ten minutes later he returned saying everything was working except my phone thought the headphones were plugged in so I couldn't hear anything unless the speaker was on. Hmm, well at least it was functional but I wouldn't be able to have any private conversations. He said the phone could be replaced for $299. Since it was still functional, I wasn't ready to give up on it yet! He recommended leaving it off and in rice for the rest of the day to see if that would help.
I hurried to my car and shoved it back in the bag of rice before heading back to work. After a couple hours I decided to turn it back on. It still wasn't functioning correctly. While at a dialysis center I had searched online "my iPhone thinks the headphones are plugged in" and surprisingly had numerous recommendations on what to do to help it. (What did we do before the Internet?) One suggestion was to suck really hard on the headphone jack. I did this and wouldn't you know it, all my sounds came back on and my phone is as good as new.
Whew, I didn't want to have to listen to the wrath of Deb, our office manager, who would not be happy when I told her I needed to have my phone replaced!
Another thumbs up for this Apple product. I have always stood behind my iPhones and iPads and have never had any trouble with them. This just shows that maybe they are indestructible. We've had our original iPad for 6+ years now without any issues. Each child has dropped it a number of times yet it still keeps going. Ironically, the screen did crack last month but no child is to blame for it (ahem, Justin). A nice guy in Madrid repaired it for a decent price and it's back to working just fine.
Don't worry, I sanitized my phone with about 100 alcohol wipes :). Sorry Apple guy, I didn't sanitize it before I handed it over to you. Oops!
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