Friday, March 6, 2009

WARNING!! Blackberries should NOT swim in water troughs!

(Crossposted, with permission of the original author, from the Chronicles of the Horse forum: TrueColours)

... sigh ...

Blackberries and water troughs do NOT mix well. Trust me on this one ...

NO matter how much they may beg and say the weather is nicer, just a little dip wont hurt anything, they are liars. Even a quick dip on a nice day is not good for cell phones. Not at all.

And then when you are bending over a water trough to fill it up, admiring the birds and the squirrels and that damned phone JUMPS out of its holder and goes "plop!" into the water trough on its own so you madly fish it out, get soaked in the process, and started whacking it against your sweatshirt and jeans to get the gurgling sound to go away from inside of it, wipe everything on your clothes to try and dry it off and race inside to get the hair dryer out

They may come out cleaner than when they went in, and when you reboot them, that nice little hour glass spins around happily and you think "okay! The Blackberry WAS right! A little swim never hurt anything ..." but then those damned buttons wont work anymore and you get out the hair dryer and you blow into every crevice it has and it still looks okay and very much cleaner, but it wont "go" any more ...

Then you try calling it and BINGO! It rings and you see who is calling but you cant push the buttons to answer the call so great - you can see who is calling you but you cant do a damned thing about it except to curse the damned swimming Blackberry ...

So - Ive got it plugged in now inside, and I thought maybe if it thinks about things for awhile and contemplates life in the huge cellphone junkheap in the sky, it might agree to work a little longer for me?

What are the chances? Anyone else have a Blackberry that went for a swim and actually worked afterwards?

1 comment:

Laura said...

No but I have a blackberry! Why did I not know you had one? We could be messaging for free! Anyway! I'm going to go add you now. :)