OT: And I thought I had it bad....

The Naked Whiz

Regular visitors here will know that the wife (yes, the wife who...) once dropped two cell phones into toilets in the span of 8 days. And a daughter who dropped one into a toilet and had to have maintenance come to retrieve it as it had started the great migration to the sea.

Well, I don't have it that bad, I reckon....

I heard on NPR the other day that a guy's wife had dropped her cell phone twice and a brand new digital camera once into a toilet in only 2 days. Kinda makes the 8 day thing seem like a lifetime, eh?

Bordello

Hey, you just found your silver lining, your wife didn't do too bad after all. :laugh: :silly:

Hope all is well,
Bordello

Frank from Houma

I have heard of dudes dropping their phones into toilets. Standing at a urinal or toilet with the phone trapped between the ear and the shoulder in a "hands free" mode because they were otherwise busy and the head or shoulder moves - uh oh. This normally happens in an airport when you are just in time for your plane and suddenly you think about going fishing ......

Beli

Good business being a plumber over there.. :laugh:

James MB

Many years ago (1983?)I had a friend who did that with his Barclaycard (Visa), must have fallen out of his back pocket as he dropped his trousers.
He didn't do it again after the amount of hassle he had after explaining to customer services. Try getting credit anywhere else when you're a hard up undergrad!
(PS - what's with all that /' in your sig?)

Big'un

Just tell her waht my ex-wife always told me, "Put the lid down when you're done." BTW, don't feel like you need to call me, for obvious reasons. :laugh:

The Naked Whiz

Looks like the board software has a bug. If you have a single or double quote in your signature, it puts the backslash in front of it internally. If you go back and look at your profile, you will find that the backslashes have been added. If you update your profile again (without messing with the backslashes) each backslash now becomes 3 backslashes. Each time you edit your profile, more and more backslashes are added. Even though you could only see double backslashes, in the profile there were about 20 of them before each of the quotes!

jeffinsgf

Does the same thing to the recipes, too. At first I thought it was a cut and paste issue, but it does it to keyboard entry into the board (and cookbook) software.

TNmike

Now I can understand the cell phones but I just have to wonder what she was doing with the digital camera over the toilet. :ohmy: :ohmy: :laugh: :laugh: Mike

Jeffersonian

Can't say I've ever bulls-eyed a commode, but I did drop mine in a parking lot at Anheuser-Busch and saw it rattle around on a sewer grate with tiny little slots before making one final bounce, turn perfectly vertical and slip into one of those slots.

I remember uttering an Anglo-Saxon epithet at that moment. :pinch: