Before cell phones were common, wrist watches were. Very few of them were water-proof, and very few people wanted them to be. Yes, if you were stupid and went

Before cell phones were common, wrist watches were. Very few of them were water-proof, and very few people wanted them to be. Yes, if you were stupid and went swimming with your wrist-watch you would've killed it... and every now and then I'd hear a story about how something like that happened. Water-proof watches were seen as a luxury, however small, that nobody really needed outside of like scuba divers. I don't even know if my phone is water proof or not, and I had it since 2016. I never tried swimming with it or leaving it outside in the rain or doing any of the other stupid things you listed... why would any sane person do something like that?