True story

[cleolinda]

Guys, my mother just found my phone in the washing machine. I washed my phone. I have no phone because I washed it.

Reader, I confess, I started laughing really hard. She looked like she wanted to throttle me.



ETA: I've told you how we bought the Geek Squad contract and my mother's so in love with the concept of the Geek Squad and how they will come fix everything and Make It All Better? Finally I said, look, just CALL THEM, whatever, I just washed MY PHONE, I DON'T CARE. So while she does that, I check my email, I read the news, I finally read the Best Buy: Geek Squad Gouges article at The Consumerist. Not FIVE MINUTES LATER, she storms in and announces that the Geek Squad 1) can't get here until August 31st which is 2) the same day as my dentist appointment (I started laughing hysterically at that point, just because: COME ON NOW, REALLY) and 3) they want to charge us $145 to come out and, essentially, look at the thing and maybe load Microsoft Office. "I THOUGHT THAT THE POINT OF THE CONTRACT WAS FOR THEM TO COME OUT AND FIX THINGS BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY PAID THEM WHAT IS THIS WHY DID WE EVEN GIVE THEM ANY MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF THE CONTRACT??????????" she capslocked.

Apparently as the call was ending, whoever she was talking to asked if she had received good customer service. My mother paused for a long, long time. "You were very nice to me on the phone," she said finally.



ETA: Y'ALL, MY MOTHER'S CAR IS DEAD. She went out to the garage just now and it was just cold as a stone. Wouldn't even make a noise. "It's either the battery or the alternator," she said. But she doesn't know WHY--she didn't leave anything on to run it down. I couldn't stop laughing, in that "I have no other response left" way--well, I stopped when I realized she was near tears. "And I don't have Triple A anymore, because we couldn't afford it," she said. "I am just so tired. I am just so tired of life."

I'm afraid to stay in this house today, y'all. I don't know what's going to happen next.

Comments

[angelene.livejournal.com]

°_°


*speechless*

+ hugs!

[lama-not-llama.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think I'd start laughing too. I mean, what else is there to do?!

I dropped mine right into a full glass of water beside me once. But a washing machine - that's a proper clean!

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Oh God. I can't even...anything.

[gannet-guts.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I did that once. To my sister's borrowed phone. Ooops.

I'd be fully starting a "WHY HAVE THOUST FORSAKEN ME?" Jesus H. Christ!

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, I'm so sorry.
You've just been having a hell of a time lately.
Happy thoughts sent your way to hopefully make things better...

[modern-love.livejournal.com]

I send hugs. Lots of hugs. :(

[scribesquill.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of HP6, right there. Icon Love.

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

I just...wow.

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

You are not having a particularly fabulous week, are you?

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Cleo, hon, you're like the Human Virus.

Don't feel bad about washing the phone--my husband pulled that one back in June, six weeks after we bought our new phones, with no warranty of course. Yeah, $$$ that we didn't have, gone like the wind. So you're not the only one that happens to.

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Argh! Lock yourself up in a hut in the mountains with no technology around. Some curse is out to get you!

My boyfriend managed to wash his phone and mp3-player in the same year. Sometimes letting the battery dry helps :/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I broke my mp3 player last week. Broke it into little tiny pieces.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's got to be a sign. Clearly destiny wants you to fight the machine oppressors with your wit and technology breaking aura of doom.

You may know this, but

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

I once had a roommate borrow my cell phone while she had a cold. She felt bad about this, so before she gave it back to me, she took it into the bathroom... and I heard the sound of the sink running. Sure enough, she handed it back to me dripping wet, with all the brokenness that implies. On parental advice, I took the battery out and left the rest of the phone balancing in some weird position for maximum surface-area-to-air exposure, and let it dry for a day or two. It worked again, perfectly.

Re: You may know this, but

[dives.livejournal.com]

Really?


Did she really do that? (I don't doubt you, I just...wow)

I hope she'd just taken some cold medication before borrowing it or something and was feeling a bit strange, because otherwise...really.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

The technical term for that is fail laugh or fail smile. When everything has just gone so sideways there's nothing left to do but laugh and smile in defeat.

[i-thessaly.livejournal.com]

I thought I read an article somewhere about how you can salvage a phone you've dunked in water/washed - something about taking the battery out and leaving it to dry overnight on some absorbent paper?

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

I dropped my phone down the toilet once. I took it to the Carphone Warehouse and they said my phone was doomed no matter what they did because it had been totally submerged. Even if its dried out and works, the phone's insides will seize up; this actually happened, at first the backlight stopped working, then the number 3, then the number 6, then all the other numbers, then it gave up the ghost.

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

But look on the bright side, in a couple of years time you can have a look back on the entries and laugh at your own misfortunes. You could probably write a sitcom based on them, to be honest.

[magicloaf.livejournal.com]

I, uh...

I would start burning sage. NOW.

[promise19.livejournal.com]

I agree. Sage burning is definitely called for. And it definitely can't hurt. And it's less messy than sacrificing a furby (as called for in a post above). ;)

[lady-findel.livejournal.com]

Girl, you are having lots of bad luck. You have my sympathy.

[karintheswede]

Oh. Wow.

Actually, my flatmate once dyed her 'phone. Black.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Chic!

[calatha.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I'd start thinking about an exorcism.

[theelusiven.livejournal.com]

You don't need to pay anybody, all you need to do is some ipecac and peyote. Fix you right up.

[lonecow.livejournal.com]

It is your creative energies that are burning out all those electrical devices (or... drowning them, I guess). It reminds me of this comic strip:

http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=434 (the story goes on for the next 8 strips...)

I hope you find something to suppress your anti-tech energies!

[jynnantonnyx28.livejournal.com]

dude, I do shit like this all the time. I'm onto my 4th phone this year because my phones will end up in sinks or some stuff. BUT I've had a 50% recovery rate from all water damaged phones by taking it a part and letting it dry thoroughly - put it as close to a heater as it can get without melting.

It isn't the water that damages the circuitry it's the current running through it goes wacko in water. If you don't use it after the water exposure and dry it out it's usually okay.

My recent phone ended up in a saucepan full of boiling water that I was poaching eggs in (I was at work, and got angry with my phone and threw it ... and I have a very bad aim). I switched it off straight away and dried it out and it was fine! however the phone that I dropped in the sink (I'm clumsy) and didn't notice, as in there for about 3 hours and I continued to ring it to try to find it. That one was fucked.

sorry, that was a really long comment.

FWIW

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

IDK what kind of phone you are looking for to replace it or what plan you are on, but after my daughter dropped my phone in the sink last week I got a Blackberry Storm for $50 ($100 rebate, plus renewal bonus) at the sale the the local Verizon booth is having.

[adarraliselle.livejournal.com]

This completely sucks. I've put my phone in the freezer before. After it dried out and warmed up, it worked fine (or as well as it worked before that). Try letting the phone dry out for a day or two (with the battery out) and then try turning it on again.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

You really are the definition of schadenfreude right now, aren't you.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Err, I don't think she's enjoying the suffering of others right now. Or do you mean that you are enjoying hers??

[piccgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh My Gosh.

I really hope things start looking up for you. They have to!
(((((((hugs Cleo)))))))))