Luckily it didn’t happen but like… my hand be shaky at times and like… I wonder what is one supposed to do if they ever drop their phone in them lol
Like… do people just freeze right there be be like “FUUUUUUU”
Also what about like the gap in subways?
Or like the gap in the elevator?
Do people actually lose stuff like that?
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Used to work for a company that maintained sewer lift stations. Had my earbuds in one day when we walk into the little shack over the station. I scratched an itch by my ear, my earbud popped out and I watched it fall into the slurry. Just stood there for a moment as there was literally no action to take.
On another occasion one of my glasses lenses popped out. My coworker saw it happen, and managed to grab the lens. Unfortunately, it was a plastic lens and contact with the slurry destroyed the surface, so I had to get new glasses anyway. I was able to get a payday loan for new glasses, thankfully, so I invested in 2 pairs of prescription safety glasses!
Edit: As a rule, we all left our phones in the work truck while on site, for obvious reasons.
Slurry is scary. Half of a family my family knew when I was growing up died in a slurry pit. The dog fell in, so the father jumped in to rescue it, then the son jumped in to rescue the father
Damn. That is awful.
Never even so much as consider entering a slurry lagoon without a tether and protective gear.
You forgot ‘and a friend to pull you out in case’.
It’s a genuinely good reaction to have when dropping something, especially something small.
Assuming it survives the fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, the building management should be able to retrieve it for you.
I just stretch my tubular arms real long until they’re super thin. Simple.
Did you eat the devil’s fruit thingy in One Piece? (didn’t really watch it, that stuff got a bit too weird for me lol)
Yes, and: I was mostly thinking of 1930s style cartoons.
You can call the city and have them open it and fish it out. Happens to my mom when she went to a friends for a game night. They were the ones that actually called people, we just got her a new phone.
Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.
I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.
Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.
I used to live on a boarding school campus as an administrator. My kids and I were hanging on a culvert at a pond on the campus, I leaned over to look at something and my black iPhone 7 slid right out of my breast pocket and into the water. I knew that I had like fifteen minutes before it died. So I ran home, grabbed a wetsuit jacket (it was like February in Florida, cold enough to need this) and put on my board shorts and ran back to the water with a net. I waded in, felt my body sink down to my knees in muck. It was so gross that I wasn’t about to let my head get underwater. But I felt with my feet and used the net to pull stuff up from around where I saw the phone fall (while my wife pinged it with the Find My app). She watched the dot disappear and that’s when we knew the phone had died. Never found it.
I took like three showers after that, just to be sure. And I do not go near ponds with my phone anywhere except in my hip pockets (or in a sling bag)
What a heartbreaking ending to that story.
My intrusive thoughts usually revolve around yeeting my phone off a bridge or a boat. I’ve managed to contain myself so far.
As for storm drains, I lost my keys down a deep one a few months back. Went to the hardware store and bought strong magnets and a wire and got them out after a lengthy fishing expedition.
I once dropped a toothbrush down the sink. Normally sinks have a catcher mesh installed but we had to remove ours as a quick fix for it leaking. I dropped it perfectly and shoop it’s down the sink. I did fish it out because it hit the ubend and stayed there but I threw it away and got a new one lol. Everything was fine for years though, it was an extremely rare shot for it to go down and not just lay flat in the sink.
This is not helping. I too grip my phone and keys and stuff going over scary things like grates!
This happened to me too! I couldn’t stop laughing about how lucky of a shot it was. I then proceeded to forget about it until I took the drain apart some time later and was surprised again.
This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.
This happened to my dad once when I was a kid, but obviously not with a cell phone but rather his keys. We learned a few things that day, one of which is that cast iron storm drain grates are even heavier than they look, but the other was that if you get your hands on a big prybar you get all Archimedes in its face and not have to lift the damn thing.
If you’re e.g. an average apartment dweller and haven’t got a 7’ prybar in your shed, I don’t know what to tell you.
I have intrusive thoughts about everything all the time lol
Shit, my intrusive thoughts are starting to get intrusive thoughts.
I feel ya
But what if I’m walking over my intrusive thoughts and drop my intrusive thoughts in my intrusive thoughts? What is one supposed to even do then?
Intrusive-ception. I think at that point you’re supposed to wake up or something? Idk I never saw the movie
Yes yes I do
I do, because I had my phone fall down the street drain. Thankfully it hadn’t rained in a while. I was able to open the manhole cover, drop down and grab it.
No way, you just went inside yourself?
Bruh, I’d get grabbed by the sewage demon and never be seen again
(Also cuz gemophobia 🤮)
It was in California, which gets very little rain, so the drain was clean. Thankfully it wasn’t that deep either, about 6 feet down. If it had been in a city with active waste going down the drain, I would have left it down there. I got into the bad habit of leaving my phone on my lap in the car. When I got out of the passenger seat, it fell on the grate and slowly slid through the cracks, I just missed catching it before it fell in.
I am very careful about always knowing where my phone is placed now.
Don’t worry, if you drop your phone down there, a nice clown will retrieve it for you. Apparently phones float in the sewer!
I feel like an intrusive thought would be more like wondering if you should intentionally drop your phone to see what happens.
Worrying about dropping your phone is actually smart and not intrusive. It’s very pragmatic to be concerned about the possibility of an accident and to try to prevent it. Some people don’t have enough of those thoughts…
