When you're a rock star at work
some times it just feels right to drop your 5 month old iphone 4s in the catch all drain at your apartment complex. It's not sewer water. But thats the only good thing you can say about it. Five feet deep and three feet full of water. Murky, stinky, nasty. I foolishly thought I could drive to the Apple Store and get a new phone without turning in the one that was sitting in the catch all. Nope. I drove to Tacoma and asked if they could hook me up - to which they replied no. Wow. I then asked if we could look up my phone and see if it was still showing as stuck there or if it was sent downstream by some insane underground current (because its the PNW and water is always flowing man, fricken 80% of our power is hydro out here) anyway - no, it didn't show up. The chick believed me that it went down the drain but wasn't going to budge.
Fine. I will get that damn phone if it takes me all night. (Brandon, you cant stay up past midnight on a school night.) Fine I will get that phone by midnight! Anyway, start driving and get a few miles down the road. Great, tank is on E and going below and its 34 miles to home. Could this night BE better! NO. Get gas, drive home. I go in the house, grab a claw hammer, flashlight, plastic bag, electrical tape, broom. Use claw hammer to pull up storm drain cover, turn on flashlight, put in bag, tape to broom, insert in murky water. Nope, cant see phone. Oh goody.
Phase 2. Get lunchbox out of back seat, start bailing out 3 feet of water with lunchbox all the while leaning into a catch all with an unknown depth - I hope the bottom of this thing is solid because if its just major build up and I fall in, im going to drown in muck XD. ANyway, I end up finding my phone and man does it STINK. I guess tomorrow I will drive back to the Apple store and get a new phone. Until then! Wow. just amazing
Fine. I will get that damn phone if it takes me all night. (Brandon, you cant stay up past midnight on a school night.) Fine I will get that phone by midnight! Anyway, start driving and get a few miles down the road. Great, tank is on E and going below and its 34 miles to home. Could this night BE better! NO. Get gas, drive home. I go in the house, grab a claw hammer, flashlight, plastic bag, electrical tape, broom. Use claw hammer to pull up storm drain cover, turn on flashlight, put in bag, tape to broom, insert in murky water. Nope, cant see phone. Oh goody.
Phase 2. Get lunchbox out of back seat, start bailing out 3 feet of water with lunchbox all the while leaning into a catch all with an unknown depth - I hope the bottom of this thing is solid because if its just major build up and I fall in, im going to drown in muck XD. ANyway, I end up finding my phone and man does it STINK. I guess tomorrow I will drive back to the Apple store and get a new phone. Until then! Wow. just amazing