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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I
by anthropodie 6y ago
> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet,
Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do.
Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.
- Daneel_ 6y agoI'd pick it up. Pee and poo washes off and phones are expensive, not to mention non-trivial to replace.
- adrianN 6y agoA phone is ten to twenty hours of minimum wage, and probably a few hundred kilograms of CO2. Not to mention the stuff stored on it. Of course I'd pick it up.
- esoterica 6y agoMore like 100-200 hours of minimum wage if it’s a nice phone.
- daniellarusso 6y ago$145 before taxes are removed for working 20 hours. It would take 97 hours of untaxed minimum wage work to purchase an iPhone 12 mini.
- adrianN 6y agoI guess it shows that I only buy used crap phones.
- 3np 6y agoHave and did. Got lucky as it chugged along fine for a couple of years more after.
- redis_mlc 6y agoSpot the soy boy. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy%20Boy https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy%20Boy Try working on a farm someday. (HN glamorizes farming, but working half a day on one is a good reality check.)
- joe-collins 6y agoEven if I don't want the phone anymore, I definitely don't want to leave it for a plumber.
- quantumsequoia 6y agoWhat alternative is there to picking it up? Flushing it down the drain?
- RandallBrown 6y agoI was out at a bar and one of my friends came back from the bathroom and said their was a phone in the toilet. We asked what she did and she said she tried to flush it. Since that doesn't really work, the phone was still in the toilet. My wife went in to the bathroom with the girl to get the phone and before my wife could reach in, the girl tried to flush it again! The phone still didn't fit down the toilet so my wife grabbed it, wiped it off, and then held onto it for a little while. The phone got a few notifications and we realized it actually belonged to another friend of ours who had been taken home earlier. (Because she was drunk enough to abandon her phone in the toilet.) Her boyfriend (now husband) came back to the bar and we gave him the phone (and the backpack she had also forgotten.)
- neolog 6y agoWas the flusher drunk too?
- RandallBrown 6y agoOh yes.
- option_greek 6y agoYes. The trick is to realize that human hands can safely be washed afterwards. Not to mention there are worse things inside the tummy than whats inside the toilet.
- avereveard 6y agoyou don't even have to use hands, tongs or that cord based snake catcher whom I do not know the name work just as well. anyway, your tummy != someone else tummy tho. https://www.livescience.com/fecal-transplant-death.html https://www.livescience.com/fecal-transplant-death.html you need to thoroughly sterilize both grabber and and phone and whatever else comes in contact with it. that said, I'd pick it up and suggest people do the same, a phone is today an authentication factor to a lot of services, either directly trough 2fa apps or indirectly trough owner email access.
- nucleardog 6y agoI mean, it’s a $1400 iPhone that’s some level of water resistant so it’ll work fine when I get it out. (Like, I watch YouTube videos in the shower and occasionally wash it under a tap with soap.) So yeah, gonna pull it out and wash it and keep using it. But I’ll never forget.
- rubidium 6y agoKids orient you to poop in a whole new way. I wouldn’t even think about it. Grab it, wash hands, wash phone, wash hands again.
- zepolen 6y agoFresh kids poop has nowhere near the harmful bacteria adult poop infested toilet water has. Also hope you scrub those fingernails as well and make sure no small open wounds on your hands.
- daniellarusso 6y agoSo, I would be disgusted for sure, especially if it was not my toilet in my own home. Hypothetically, I would use a dishwashing glove or simply wrap my hand around a clean garbage bag and use that to retrieve it. Afterwords, not sure what I would do. I would probably take it apart to clean, and either way, sell it as a functioning unit if it worked, or part it out and sell the parts or the unit as-is. So, retrieve soiled phone, get new phone, sell old phone for parts.