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[hrj]

You know those stories about the annoying problems people encounter after accidentally dropping their cell phone into a toilet. And you know how you asked yourself, "How in the world could someone be so 'talented' as to drop their cell phone in a toilet?" Well, let me tell you about one possible path to that outcome.

First, you buy a pair of pants that -- unlike all normal and natural pairs of pants -- has no front pockets. But it does have a single back pocket. A somewhat shallow back pocket. So you stick your cell phone in that pocket because, after all, one must put it somewhere.

Then an hour or so later, at a point when you are no longer consciously aware of where you've put your cell phone, you feel the call of nature and you lift the lid, turn around, begin to drop your pants, and hear a sinister "ploop" when no ploop should yet be plooping.

I'm sure there are many other, equally "amusing" stories out there in the wide world. In the morning, I shall go out and buy more moisture-absorbing packets to supplement the one I stole out of my camera case and we shall see what we shall see.

Comments

[kareina.livejournal.com]

As soon as I acquire a new phone I make a case for it out of wool, and with loop (tablet woven cotton) long enough to hang the phone around my neck if I don't have a pocket handy. The wool is, generally, textured enough to keep the phone in my pocket without falling out, and I also usually hook the lanyard on my keys to the strap on the phone and to a belt loop, so that *when* things do fall out of my pockets, they don't fall very far, and I don't wander off without them.

Granted, the loop wouldn't have kept it out of the water in the situation you described (being long enough to reach the water), but the fabric *might* have kept the phone in the pocket...