At work a few weeks back I received an email from Eastonroyce starting out with “I had a bit of an accident this morning…”
After recovering from an almost heartattack and the nauseating feeling of “WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!” (I had swapped cars with him that morning thinking the one I had been driving was having issues), I calmed down enough to read the rest of the email. It turns out he had not been wrapped around a tree as I initially thought, but was merely apologising for having commandered my mobile phone that morning. At first I wondered what he was going on about as I assumed my phone was in my bag next to me – turned off – as was per the norm. A quick check proved the phone was if fact missing, which lead me to question him further. “That’s no problem. What’s wrong with yours?”
If return emails could be reluctant, then this one certainly was. “It has gone to a watery grave…” was the reply.
I considered this a moment before realisation dawned. “Did you drop it in the toilet?” I enquired.
Another meek reply “Yep. But don’t tell anyone!!”
I allowed myself a moment of hysterical laughter before putting together my own reply. “So I take it it’s no longer working?”
“No it’s not. I tried to ring it straight away and the message said it was disconnected. Either way, I can’t use it anymore”
Huh? Wait a minute … “Did you flush it down the drain?!!”
“Yep.”
Cue more hysterical laughter from me. Frankly, I didn’t think a mobile phone could actually flush down a toilet, but apparantly this is not the case. Recovering from my giggles I managed to get the whole story which went something like this. Eastonroyce had gone into the bathroom and placed his mobile phone on the windowsill. Flushing the toilet, he went to pick up the phone, fumbled it, accidentally dropping it into bowl. Unfortunately for him, the flush held enough force to push the phone straight down the pipe into oblivion.
Fortunately, we have had no blocked pipes or heard any mysterious ringing sounds from the plumbing. Just a humourous case of bad luck!
Oh well. Good thing we are buying new iPhones for Christmas, eh?
