The dreaded water closet. Ok, it's a toilet.

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Picture a nice, relaxing afternoon on the deck. One of the first nice Saturdays of the year. We have been cooped up inside all winter. We brought Anna (big dog) to play with Buddy (puppy) and to teach Buddy how to behave. You want to invite me to something? Let me get my phone (first mistake) to put it in my calendar so I don't forget. I leave my purse inside (second mistake). I'm with friends, I don't need to worry about it. I put the event in my phone. What do I do with my phone now? I don't want to leave the conversation to put it back in my purse. I don't want to put it on the table, I might forget it. I put it in my pocket (third and fatal error). After a while, I need to go in and use their facilities. I walk in and pick up the toilet seat. Something drops in the water. I can't see it. I NEVER have my phone on me so it doesn't even occur to me that it could be my phone. I asked the host and hostess if there was something in the bathroom that could have dropped into the toilet (I was thinking a decoration on the tank). They go running for rubber gloves. Now this happened before I used the bathroom so I'm now freaking out about germs, etc. Not sure why the mention of rubber gloves freaked me out, but it did. Finally Carl comes in and reaches in the water (ok, toilet) and gets it out. Oh no! It's my phone! I rush and turn it on. It works! Happy Dance time! Their teen age son (teenagers know all about electronics) tells us we need to put it in a bag of rice to dry out. Out to dinner we go. I dutifully carry my bag of rice with my dismantled phone in it. I try it later. It doesn't work. Sunday I go to the dreaded Verizon Wireless to get a new phone. They need to order it. Monday it's shipped. On Monday, my old phone starts working. What do I do now? My old phone is set up the way I like. Do I go through the trouble of setting up a new phone? Or keep my old one? Based on the advice of someone much more intelligent than I, I set up the new phone, which disables the old phone. The new phone doesn't have any sound. Great, I just turned off my old phone, for this new phone, and it doesn't work. I have to order another phone. Now I have two dead phones. I do finally have a working phone. I think I have it all programed now. Time to send back my box with the phones (yes, plural) to Verizon. No one wonders why I have insurance on my phone.