Blackberry water damage woes

So, last night I went to a keg party and I had my week old blackberry curve sitting on a little table next to the keg while I was playing beer pong so that I would see and hear it if it rang because my friend was on her way and would be calling soon for directions. So, mid game this guy who’s a friend of a friend walks by and bumps this little table on his way to the keg and my black berry goes flying off the table and lands in this big bucket of melted ice that the keg was chilling in. Someone goes “what’s that?” and I realize oh snap its my cell phone!

Of course the dude is all like oh man I’m so sorry about that I’ll make it up to you blah blah. At this point I’m a little drunk, and on this night I was a pretty happy drunk so I was like dude calm down this is not worth ruining a game of beer pong over just forget about it I probably have insurance, its cool. So I reach for my friends phone and call my friend who’s on their way to let them know my phones fried and they had to call this number instead.

Hours go by and the party dies down so we roll out, go on a ride, and instead of going home I got dropped off at another friends house so I could use their phone to call Verizon… Yeah I called Verizon Wireless about my broken phone at like 5am to find out that I cancelled my insurance back in august of 08. YIKES! So, I try to talk them into just charging me insurance from the time my insurance got “accidentally cancelled” to now because that would be cheaper than having to pay full price for a blackberry curve. Well even though I know they were willing to do this in the past the person I was talking to claimed that was not an option, but after speaking to his supervisor he determined that because my phone was newer than 15 days old I could get insurance even after the fact.

I add the insurance, stumble to a little breakfast joint and order some shit on a shingle, which was banging! Then I ride with my friend while he takes his girlfriend to work in his brothers car with 4 12 inch subs in the back, man lil wayne songs sound so much better when you cant hear his voice over the bass! I think I am now a fan… kinda. My favorite lil wayne line still is “I wake up take a piss and wash my hands” ah, at least he’s educating the youth on proper hygiene. So anyway after the lil wayne bass ride I get dropped off at home and sleep it off, wake up and call the phone insurance company and apparently I have to wait until Monday because Verizon hasn’t notified them of my insurance policy yet. Fingers crossed!

Oh and on another but similar note I was told that if I leave my battery out and let my phone dry for a day or two that I might be able to get it to work again, but that if I tried to turn it on before it was totally dry that it could possibly ruin it forever because water and electricity don’t mix and some circuits would short out or something. Well I was drunk and impatient so of course after a few hours I put the batter back in and tried to turn the phone on, lol. It lit up a little and stuff but I’m pretty sure its fried. So I hit up Google to see what my options were and one tip I found that speeds up the drying process that I wish I had known about before I was stupid enough to try to turn on and finish frying my phone was rather interesting, but makes sense. The method is you put your wet phone in a bag or a bowl with dry rice, and the rice absorbs the moisture which results in your phone drying faster. Good stuff… I’ll have to remember that next time my phone decides to go for a swim.



BTW, I probably wont have a phone for a few days… catch me on the webz or in the streets.