With a long E, as in Evil ([info]evelynnash) wrote,
@ 2008-03-04 16:03:00
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In Which Kamran Dips His Hand in Poo


February 1st, 11 a.m.

Kamran: oh god katie
my worst nightmare just came true
my phone fell in the toilet :(
:'(
I feel woozy
i seriously feel nauseous. i might cry.
please don't tell anybody
me: WHAT THE HELL?!
It's still working?
Kamran: i dont think so
it's wrapped in paper towels in my drawer right now
it's making funny colors. i dont think it's working
me: Ahh, geez.
What happened?
Kamran: it was in my pocket, apparently not deep enough. when i stood up to zip up, it fell out and into the toilet
i fished it out (dear god) and dried it off with toilet paper. then i washed my hands fifty times
me: I feel so bad!
Kamran: me too
i cant even get my numbers and stuff off of it. they're all lost
my life has been rebooted
the pics you sent, my chess record
me: Wow.
Kamran: Give me your phone number
i quite literally feel like throwing up ...
me: I know just how you feel.
Kamran: oh yea?
me: When a story I've been working on gets deleted, when my hard drive has crashed, etc.
Kamran: yea. when you've had to fish your phone out of a bowl of your own shit
do you think i can get a new phone with service and everything over my lunch break, or is that too ambitious?
me: I think you can. Easily.
Kamran: so i'd have a working phone this afternoon?
me: Yes.
Kamran: and i wouldnt need to take my old one in
right?
me: Why not?
Kamran: because it was in a bowl of my shit
and i'd rather not carry it around
me: Well, I'd say you might want to bring it in case there's a warranty.
Kamran: i'm too embarrassed to explain it
why it's wrapped in paper towels
i should just suck it up and consider it a $300 lesson
that fucking sucks
What a dumbass i am
me: Don't feel that way. Could've happened to anyone.
Kamran: besides, i doubt the warranty covers this
me: If there's a warranty, it covers anything that you might do to it.
I know people who have run over their phones with their cars just to get a new one.
Kamran: wouldn't i need to go home and check the box and stuff?
or would they do it just based on the phone itself
even though it doesnt turn on
me: Yep, if it won't turn on, that's probably grounds for getting a new one.
Kamran: what a fucking hassle
me: Just tell them that you dropped it in water.
Kamran: yea, i will
meantime, i'll cringe every time they or I have to touch it


Later That Afternoon

Kamran: i should probably take the battery out of my old phone before i throw it away, right?
i dont really want to touch it though
not to keep the battery or anything, but just in case it's a fire hazard or something
meh, i guess if it was going to blow up, it probably would have by now
me: Well, keeping the battery isn't a bad idea, anyway.
Kamran: but it has poo in it
me: Clean it!
WITH YOUR MOUTH.
Kamran: --puke--
Listen, it hasn't been that long since I reached bare-handed into a pool of my own lukewarm feces. I'm still a little sensitive.
me: Man up.
Bear Grylls does this sort of thing every day.
Kamran: I'm SO gonna poo on you in your sleep tonight
maybe i'll poo in a bag, slip it up over your hand, and affix it with a rubber band, so as to avoid getting the bed dirty


Later That Night

We stopped by his office after dinner, and he revealed that he was keeping the poo-stained BlackBerry in his desk drawer:



When he threw it in the trash a moment later, the little red message light at the top stayed on, and we imagined some poor cleaning lady fishing it out, thinking that it was still working and that she'd made a real find. Mwahahahaha.



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[info]caropal
2008-03-04 09:14 pm UTC (link)
Oh God. I've thought about that happening before and... I don't know if I could do it. I'm sure I would, but... gah. I would definitely take much too long to consider if it would be worth it to declare it a lost cause.

Did Kamran's warranty work?

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[info]caropal
2008-03-04 10:16 pm UTC (link)
Kamran: oh god katie
my worst nightmare just came true
my phone fell in the toilet :(
:'(
I feel woozy
i seriously feel nauseous. i might cry.
please don't tell anybody


HA! Well done.

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[info]evelynnash
2008-03-20 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Of course he relented later when he saw the awesome picture of himself holding his nose. Vanity nullifies embarrassment.

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[info]evelynnash
2008-03-20 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Being poor forces me to do a lot of things for myself that I see my friends paying other people to do, but I think this is one instance where I would flush the hell out of that sucker and then run for the hills in case it clogged everything.

And no, the warranty didn't work, because it turned out that when Kamran bought his phone, there was no warranty available for his particular model. In an ironic turn of events, a warranty option was added for purchase the very day that he dropped his phone. Not that he went for it when he bought the new one.

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[info]air_crash
2008-03-04 09:32 pm UTC (link)
maybe i'll poo in a bag, slip it up over your hand, and affix it with a rubber band, so as to avoid getting the bed dirty

thank you guys for continuing to be the funniest couple in the history of the world

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[info]bloobirdie
2008-03-04 10:19 pm UTC (link)
This has to be the best thing I've read in quite awhile. My condolences to Kamran and his Crapberry Blackberry.

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[info]lowercaseyou
2008-03-04 10:48 pm UTC (link)
holy shit. that's honestly the most hilarious thing i've ever read. i had to contain my laughter at work to not let on to what i was doing.

his poor, poor blackberry. i'm thinking twice about that phone now.. i'd probably never be able to look at it without thinking of this story..

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[info]misworded
2008-03-05 12:52 am UTC (link)
A+++

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[info]cinnamic
2008-03-05 01:23 am UTC (link)
please don't tell anybody

haha

That happened to my mom once. I didn't ask why she brought her phone into the bathroom.

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[info]spaghedeity
2008-03-05 03:50 am UTC (link)
Hey, it could have been worse. I'm imagining him flushing the toilet, the phone clogging up the S-bend, his feces spilling onto the floor, and flowing down the row of stalls onto his coworkers' expensive shoes.

Poor Kamran is probably feeling like Lady Macbeth, washing his hands again and again and again.

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[info]kickery
2008-03-05 05:42 pm UTC (link)
When cell phones get wet, you can remove the battery and sit them out for a day or two and they will usually begin to function again, at least enough to pull off listings from the phonebook. Also, if the Blackberry has a chip or Simcard, that can be removed, dried, and placed in a new phone.

Granted, there's the pooTaboo, but there may be ways around simply abandoning the phone numbers.

Also, thanks to this entry, I have emailed myself every name and number in my phone directory, which I periodically do anyway.

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[info]yourtourniquet
2008-03-06 01:23 am UTC (link)
ah, I haven't laughed this much in a long time. Thanks K&K.

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[info]lastgrace
2008-03-13 09:52 am UTC (link)
Myeah.. that's a waste. Kickery is right-- my coworker dropped his phone in the toilet a couple days ago, and it survived. Next time, turn the phone off and remove the battery (so as not to short something or corrode the terminals) and leave the phone somewhere warm and breezy for several days (like... under the refrigerator or in front of a computer fan vent). You'd be surprised at what lots of electronics can endure. In this case, you'd probably have wanted to ply some lysol too. Poo really isn't THAT bad.

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