Today afternoon, I was filling water in a bucket to wash clothes, messaging and thinking about Asimov, whom I’ve grown to rather like. All of a sudden, I felt a rude shock on my head and a burning chill all over. My first suspect was Mother Earth. An earthquake and a random one of its consequences! Don’t asked me how I worked that out. But no, it was just that the shower got released (I do not know how and I have not discovered yet).
I couldn’t see clearly but the shivers told me that I was drenched in ice cold water. Before I could act, my phone slipped from my hand, hit the floor as I watched, bounced a foot in slow motion and with impossible accuracy, fell into the bucket and sank slowly in the water. A surf packet and assorted things cascaded down, still in slow motion. It was not a bad sight to watch you know. Perhaps all disasters are spectacular. I did not stand stupefied as I have so many times, but plunged my hand into the bucket and took the phone out. I had not remembered that I could move out of the shower so tried to hold the phone away from the water, which was simply everywhere. A few words flashed – wet phones, battery, short circuit, display, critical 10 seconds – I dismantled the phone as much as I could, collected myself together and ran out of the shower (Those words flashed because this is not my first phone in water though it was not such a fine debacle last time).
Once in room, I dried the parts on towels, put some dry clothes on and hurried downstairs to the lab, to google.
http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone
It will be interesting but unpleasant to see how I stay without phone for three days. I’ve already begun to feel strangely vulnerable. :(
