Honey, I flushed the Android
It was a regular weekend morning. I was getting ready to shuttle my daughter over to the ice hockey rink and looking forward to stopping for a cup of hot coffee at the Dunkin Donuts drive-thru. As much as my daughter loves to ice skate - I find that hour and a half in the sub-zero ice palace almost torturous. While my daughter was yelling at me that "we were going to be late", I made a last minute decision that I better run to the bathroom. It went something like this:Daughter: Mo--o-o-m we are going to be late for MY hockey. Will you hurry it up, Please!
Me: Just one second, Mommy is going to the bathroom and then we'll go.
Daughter: Go bathroom at hockey. They have a bathroom there you know.
Me: That bathroom is cold, I'll be just a minute.
And in that moment - it happened. My most prized possession, my Android phone jumped from the pocket of my favorite jeans and plummeted to its death. It was as if time stood still for that moment. Did my life-blood know as my cellphone really just fall into the toilet? In those seconds as I watched it sink, I didn't even think. I pushed the sleeve of my sweater up and I reached in and grabbed (thinking it was a good thing this happened before I actually relieved myself).
Of course, it was too late. The damage was done. My phone which was previously on...was lights off.
I ran downstairs and woke up my husband and then turned to Google. "Dropped phone in toilet" - yields approximately 6.5 million results complete with instructions on how to save a wet cell phone. My husband wasn't mad at me for dropping the phone in the potty (though he wasn't thrilled I woke him up for this). He put the phone in a bowl of rice and said "this is why we have insurance". I made the call and paid a $100 fee but got a new phone 2 days later via fed-ex.
In those 2 days before I received my replacement, I never felt so disconnected. I couldn't twitter, facebook, text, or get calls when I was out of the house. I stalked my google voice mailbox from my laptop to see what calls I was missing. I felt panicked that the school nurse would call to say there was a problem at my son's school and I would miss the call. The truth of the matter is, I felt like I was going through some kind of detox and I was out of my mind. I stress ate and drank more cups of coffee than is healthy. Those two long days without my phone were beyond stressful for me. Like so many of use these days, I made the realization just how much my phone keeps me connected and keeps my life in order - holding my calendar and appointments, all my contacts, email, my social life, and yes stress relief also.
.. And so it goes that we now have a new rule in our house.
From now on.. absolutely no electronics (cell phone, DS, ipod) are allowed in the bathroom!
New Jersey Moms Blog post by MaryTara. MT blogs her adventures in parenting on the Jersey Shore, life with autism & without it, the gluten & casein free diet, and vaccination choice issues at The Bon Bon Gazette and raising a child with amblyopia at Adventures in Amblyopia.
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