Comments on: Odds of dropping my cell phone

By: Provincial Lady

Provincial Lady — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:03:53 +0000

This happens so commonly with hospital bleeps (and yes, it’s cos they fall out of your pocket/off your belt at an inopportune moment) that the solution is given in my junior doctor’s handbook – rinse it off under the tap, then take it to switchboard and tell them you dropped it in your drink.

By: divadragon

divadragon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:14:14 +0000

This graph inaccurately excludes “in the tub while I’m struggling to open the bubbles for my toddler while talking to my husband who’s in Afghanistan”. On second thought, that could only possibly happen to me lol.

By: qwerty

qwerty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:09:42 +0000

i swear my phone is obsessed with toilets

By: good call

good call — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:41:20 +0000

Ouch.

By: good call

good call — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:39:03 +0000

Or, you had certain photos or videos on your phone, so you ripped it in great anticipation out and accidentally threw it on the ground

By: zobothehobo

zobothehobo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:00:28 +0000

Ya, you more deserve it if you are talking while on the toilet.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:18:03 +0000

What about dropping it into a bucket of hot soapy water and disinfectant? Ask me how I thought of that.

By: lulu

lulu — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:31:38 +0000

Well yea, the army doesn’t want you jumping in front of trains…on your time off…

By: StreetPreacher

StreetPreacher — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:09:57 +0000

I’d have to devote a largish slice to “Dropping it into the giant bucket of waiting-to-be-neutralized-nitric acid and mercury waste.” No lie, I’ve killed two phones that way.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:09:19 +0000

I’ve dropped my mp3 player in the toilet once. It screamed.

By: vervain

vervain — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:57:08 +0000

I’m just boggling at the cat box one.

By: Fake E. Tufte

Fake E. Tufte — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:31:23 +0000

Nobody does it intentionally, you don’t even have to be talking on it.

The classic and widely experienced tale is you’re sitting in a stall, and first you hear a “plop” from the next stall over, followed by “AH F&%*!!!” What happens is that his phone is on his belt, or in his pocket, and as he stands up and lifts his pants to put them back on, the phone works loose and down it goes.

This story has been told over and over by many people for years. So I totally believe the rationale behind the largest slice.

By: Fake E. Tufte

Fake E. Tufte — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:29:45 +0000

Nobody does it intentionally, but the classic tale is you’re sitting in a stall, and first you hear a “plop” from the next stall over, followed by “AH F&%*!!!” What happens is that your phone is on your belt, or in your pocket, and as you stand up and lift your pants to put them back on, the phone works loose and down it goes.

So I totally believe the rationale behind the largest slice.

By: KC

KC — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:10:03 +0000

If you’re talking on the phone while near a toilet, then you deserve everything that happens to you!

By: papajon

papajon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:51:27 +0000

Someone has had a bad apparently…

Is making a graph about it cathartic perhaps? Is it like saying “My bad” after doing something stupid and then all is universally forgiven?

Hey if you feel better doing a graph after your cell-phone submerging, more power to ya!

By: Yuval

Yuval — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:47:14 +0000

Happened to me once with my army-commissioned cell -
I was court-martialled for it.

By: Srinivasan R

Srinivasan R — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:04:00 +0000

A person in India dropped it on the railway tracks while standing on the platform – jumped to get it back and was run over by the train.

By: th15

th15 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:06:24 +0000

I dropped my phone while boarding my ship once

By: KartoonNotWerk

KartoonNotWerk — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:24:12 +0000

Agree w/Destin…no talking on the john, thanks. We had a boss who would take the cordless phone to the toilet with him and always wondered if the person on the other end knew. Or did he mute it when he flushed. Either way, ewww….

By: oops

oops — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:20:18 +0000

Been there, done that one!

By: Destin

Destin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:15:32 +0000

I generally try to keep my phone away from toilets.