Swimming Cell Phones

Has your cell phone ever gone swimming? We had DH's nephew, who is 16 months old, for about a week (long story). One night he was cruising with us in the living room watching TV. One minute he was right there with us and the next he was in the bathroom playing with the water in the toilet. During the time we were caring for him, we tried to keep the bathroom door shut and the toilet seat down, but one of my girls must have used the bathroom and forgot to shut everything.

Anyway - I heard him in the bathroom and rushed over there to get his hands out of the toilet. When I got there I realized he was splashing the water with an object. As I got closer to pull his hand and what he was holding out of the toilet, I realized it was DH's cell phone! Of course it was too late to save it. We immediately opened it up, wiped it down, and removed the battery and SIM card, but the phone never did work again. Of course, this had to happen at about 7:30 on a Saturday night when all cell phone stores are closed. And, as luck would have it, DH was expecting some phone calls that weekend. So, we found a place close by that sells those "unlocked" phones and went to pick one up. Cost us over $200!

Why didn't we just wait and use insurance on the phone? Because when we bought it (the Motorola Sliver), we were told that no insurance could be put on that phone. *sigh*

Oh yeah - then we find out that that's about the 3rd phone our nephew has taken swimming in the toilet. I so wish the cell phone companies would come up with water proof phones. But then they'd lose money on people like us who are forced to buy a new phone because ours went swimming.