The Story of My Cell Phone....and some shoveling in there too

So as many of you know I don't tend to have good luck with cell phones and last weekend and this past week definitely proved that correct. I will start with last weekend when Michelle and I were shoveling the drive way. She had grabbed my cell phone and put it in her pocket and we started to shovel. All of a sudden I heard her say, "uh oh" and I noticed my lovely cell phone in the street in a puddle:( She said that it worked and we continued to shovel. That evening I noticed that my cell phone just wasn't acting right and as the night went on, it started to not work at all. We ended up going to Verizon where the dude there tried to fix it for about 45 minutes and then ordered me a new cell phone. Mind you we never told me them it was in a puddle.

Two days later my new phone came and everything was great. UNTIL, two nights away. I must have left a small glass of diet coke on the table behind my bed and either I or my cat must have knocked it over. Not knowing this, I put my cell phone on this table. Several minutes later I picked it up and it was soaked!! I immediately took the battery out and put it back in...and it didn't work!! I was about to jump out the window.

At this point I would have tried anything. Prayed that it would be OK. Then I remember what my friend Sarah had told me that she read in Women's World. That if you get your cell phone wet, shut it off and put it in a bowl of rice. The rice would some how suck all the moisture out of the phone. At this point is about 1 AM and I dumped all the rest of my whole grain rice into a bowl and put my phone in it. Then I prayed.

I woke up around 5 AM (not sure why) and decided that I needed to see if it worked. I put the battery in and it worked!! It was still acting a little funky, but it turned on and I could make calls and use the Internet..it was a miracle;) By the end of the day yesterday my phone was working as always. So if you get your phone wet....put it in a bowl of rice!!