ok, now that i got that out of my system ... dont underestimate the value of having sneezing pandas at your fingertips.

That sucks. Apple should give you another just based on the publicity you are generating about their phone. I mean really, what is a free phone to them?

I'm sorry that you dropped your phone. But I can't help laughing at your pain because you tell it so damn funny!!! No wait, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you. And kudos to the Seinfeld ref.

So sorry about the technical difficulties. I think it is fear of something like this happening that keeps me from buying a cell phone at all. And, I apologize for being a smartass, but when you write "rent" your garments, do you mean "rend" your garments? Or maybe you are being funny, and I missed the joke. In which case, I am lame.

I have been a lurker for several months, but I have cried and laughed my ass off at your blog and finally felt the need to tell you. One of the best parts of my day!

They can tell if it was in the toilet. My mom put her phone in her bathing suit and then went in the pool (don't ask) and I sent it back in for service under the warranty, denying all the time that it had gotten near water. They knew. :(

Being an Amy, I totally would have done all those things too. I hope the extra day of dry-out will help. (the phone. I'm not recommending dry-out for you. In fact, wine sounds necessary. Then watch the sneezing panda.)

At least it half-works, right? Hopefully, with another days drying, it will ALL work. I'm crossing my fingers for you!

I thought that #7 said, "Do not stick PENIS in side of phone".

I'm not going to fib--it concerned me a bit.

See, I just thought of something that could have been #23. Never stick penis in side of phone. Good to know.

This post must go in the "Best of...." category, if you have one. Get one, Amy. Get one.

It's a really good thing you pictured the long grain rice bag with the iPhone submerged in the jar of long grain rice, otherwise I would've thought you went ahead and submerged your iPhone in a jar of maggots or something :-)!!!

I have to laugh because I too have dropped my phone in the toilet. I went golfing at a really nice golf club for a work thing. I went to the bathroom after my round of golf and had my phone in my pocket. As I leaned over the toilet to flush, my phone fell out of my pocket into the toilet bowl and (you guessed it) I had already flushed and even after I dove in after it the phone was gone. The phone was just small enough to go down but big enough to lodge in the pipes. I had to go into the pro shop and tell the very good looking guy that worked there that I had just flushed my cell phone and plugged their toilet with it. He asked me to put an out of order sign on the stall but by the time I got back to the bathroom someone was already using it. Needless to say, there was much flooding, a plumber was called and I have not golfed there since.

Oh, the thought of dropping an iPhone in the turlet makes my heart hurt. I'm sorry. Hope it self-heals itself somehow.

At least you didn't drunkenly drop your Blackberry into a BUS TOILET on the way to a golf course like my former boss - the head of advertising for a very big TV network - did. He was A GENIUS and also A PROFESSIONAL.

Well you can now console yourself with all the good that will have come from dropping your phone in the toilet, how many countless phones will have been saved. Oh and fuck off I love my razr and if I drop it in the toilet I can get a new one for 30 bucks so :P. Just kidding I love you

Okay, only because you put your phone is a cup of rice, do I feel a kinship with you enough to tell you that I dropped my phone in the toilet a couple motnhs ago, and because, this one time...the car alarm on my key chain would go through the wash, and not work, but if you put it in the dryer, it totally would, so....you get the idea, I put the phone in the dryer...and there may still have been clothes in there...and....it melted. duh. Buttons were hot and squishy and clothes were ruined, and I was pretty sure the phone was going to blow up in my face...so yeah. Whatever you do, don't put your phone in the dryer...not that you would. But still.

I once washed my phone and I let it dry out for a few days and it still worked but I don't know how that would work on a touch screen.

I love that picture though. :)

Dude....that really sucks. I'd have probably shoved myself in the toilet if that had happened to me! So what's the plan now?

Have you tried sticking your iphone under your vacuum so that it could suck the water out? (okay okay don't try it I just thought it would be a funny post for tomorrow...)

Don't give up hope yet. It takes a long time for the phone to dry out. I read that it is better to NOT try to turn the phone on while it is drying out.

I once watered a plant that was right above our TV... the water overflowed and ran into the back of the TV. I cried that I had "killed my best friend". But after 3 days, when it was fully dry, the TV totally worked again, as good as before.

Also, they don't just put one of those white stickers that turn red if it gets wet inside your phone. I found FIVE in my phone after I dropped mine in the toilet. Some were buried so deep in the puzzle of electronic parts inside the phone that you could never find it unless you took the phone apart. I guess they got sick of liars like me saying, "I have no idea what happened to it!"

Good luck!

Sorry you had to join the Toilet Phone Club. (I was VERY sad the day I joined the club, and the phone I dropped was a Razr!)

Oh. And last month, while in a public bathroom, just after using a toilet whose cleanliness was severely questionable even BEFORE I used it, I dropped a charm off of my charm bracelet into said filthy, pee-filled bowl. A really meaningful charm that my recently-deceased grandmother gave me.

I must have stood there for 5 minutes debating whether or not the sentimental value was worth dirty-pee hand. I eventually plunged right in, but yuck. I scoured my hands raw after that, and still can't in good conscience touch my food with that hand.

Rice? Really? Hmmm.

I love that pic. Everyone should have their own version.

Hee! The rice thing! I totally had to do that with my DSL modem.
I spilled an entire glass of water on the modem. The modem got angry about that. So I put the modem in some rice. The modem was obviously hungry because it was suddenly full of rice. My husband gave me that look he always gives me when I do something stupid and then do something even more stupid to try to cover it up.
So the next day I called AT&T and said "I don't know what the problem is, but I can't connect to the internet." Hippie repair man comes out, checks some stuff, says "hmmm, I think you're modem is bad." (Hippie repair man is genius!) Hippie repair man gives me new modem free of charge! Yay!

Olivia - maybe she really did mean "rent" because you know she is a total renthead now!

Amy - I am really sorry that your dispair brings so much laughter to my day. However, I was really overcome with the need to hug you when I saw that old chestnut. So consider yourself hugged.

I too have lost a phone down the toilet but I had maternity pants to blame. I had no excuse for the one that fell into the pedicure pond.

Never tried to dry them out because it gave me a chance to get my money out of that insurance I pay on them each month. 'Cause I tend to drop them in water and all.

I did however just soak my car key fob for about 24 hours in the sink while it was in my pants pocket that needed soak. It took about 2 days to work again but it does.

Here's hoping you get the same results.

oops - sorry
it's new ipods, not iphones

that's what I get to reading headlines too fast.

Oh, I am just SO SORRY! I have a friend who once ran her cell phone through the washing machine AND the dryer. And just recently she dropped it in a glass of water. In both cases, it survived. Best of luck with your iphone!

I dropped my phone in the toilet once (mid-pee) and it basically survived, but required about two days to dry out first. I say "basically" survived because the 4 key was never quite the same again, and AT&T upgraded my phone within a month anyway.

Dang, I was going to tell you that the iPhone's price has just been slashed by $200, but Suess beat me to it. So maybe you can afford a new iPhone after all?

Get that teenager that hacked the iphone on the case!You're the queen of Mamapop--you know the one! He made it do what it's not supposed to do! He'll save you! Oh, and what's up with lowering the price already?Seriously, keep trying the rice. Good luck!

Oh no! But now I can send you this link, which is hilarious, but which I couldn't send before for reasons that will be obvious once you see it. Now, however, you may get a laugh AND it may be of some use to you.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

Your phone has been flagged.

One more there-is-hope example: I dumped a whole cup of coffee on a laptop once. I tried to mop it up, but didn't use a hairdryer or anything. I took it to Best Buy, where they kept it for three weeks before saying, "It's compltely shot and there's nothing we can do." I hid the laptop under my bed and bought a new one.

Two months later, while cleaning the floor, I noticed a blue light from under the bed; apparently the laptop wasn't so dead after all, and had come back to life with enough dry-out time. It works fairly well, even two years later (though it does have some odd tics from time to time).

Hang in there!

Amy - you don't have to become a prostitute - good news:

(09-05) 12:21 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered a bounty of music news Wednesday, introducing a new multi-touch iPod similar to the iPhone, slashing the price of the iPhone by $200 and announcing a new Wi-Fi iTunes music store that allows users to download music at various locations, including Starbucks stores.

Aw nuts. That stinks hun! At least it makes for an interesting story? At least it dodn't die doing something totally boring and uninteresting? Right? It may be dead, but at least it earned it!

*puts hand up*

Um, I'm using a fucking Razr.

It wouldn't bother you as much if you'd dropped a Razr down the toilet, eh? There's the plus side to owning a Razr! And it comes in pink! See? There's a positive for everything.

Is this phone-down-the-toilet thing becoming a blogger's epidemic? I swear this isn't the first time I've read this kind of story.

Mmmmm, I don't like the implication (tongue in cheek or no) that people who have buttons on their pants aren't cool enough to own an iPhone. Or that one has to be cool to own one. In any case, dropping a phone in the toilet is not cool.

...so maybe you DO have buttons on your pants pockets, but you're just, like, semi-cool enough not to button them.

Um... you're not going to eat that rice now, are you?

I know that Apple sent free iPhones to every NBA player because, honestly, how could they ever afford one on their own meager salaries?

Anyway, you're much more entertaining than an NBA player, so my thought is Apple should send you a free replacement.

Oh, I am so sorry.

My non-iPhone phone did the leap o' death into the toilet from my back pocket once, too. But it wasn't as precious as an iPhone. (And don't you KNOW it has almost happened again. Maybe once, or maybe more times.)

I doubt it's any consolation at all, but your post was *hysterical.* (I was supposed to be laughing, right? You don't hate me cos I laughed, right?)

So, so sorry.

Bloody HELL, that is one loud sneeze from a teeny panda ( I actually DID go to youtube, have no life at all you see) Will now spend next 20 minutes being depressed that I will never have a phone posh enough to have videos on, although can not work out how to text on my cheap phone, so do not deserve anything grand at all, ever.

Extra sympathy points because you bought it at full price. I would point and laugh ONLY if you got it cheaper than I did!

Two suggestions -

Have you tried putting it in the refrigerator? That sometimes helps dry things out. Just think about that celery you bought for dressing/stuffing at Thanksgiving and found in March.

Second, if you know someone with hearing aids, normally they have this charger thing that they put them in at night. It also works as a dehumidifier. Hearing aids get wet, and they're electronic and they don't die. They're like $600, so find someone you can borrow from.

Very very sorry for your loss. That said: *helpless laughter resulting in tears and little gaspy noises as I try to remember to breathe* nope, I've got nothing else, just sorry and thanks for letting us laugh at your misery.

Sadly, I've messed up both cameras and phones with water. Here's a trick I was told... Preheat your oven to 250. When it reaches that temperature, turn off the oven. Put your phone in the oven on a cookie sheet and leave it there. (Remember the oven is now off!) Don't open the oven for 24 hours (great excuse to go out to dinner!) It should help dry it out. you might want to put a note on the oven to remind yourself not to turn it on.

Maybe the bottom half will work if you lie the phone down FLAT in a bed of rice...? It's possible all the pee, ahem, "water," went to the bottom half...

Ohhhhhhhhh Amy. I'd have shit myself! That said, this is why I have phone insurance.

I do product reliability testing for a living (aka, I get to break shit). We've done a lot of testing on diabetes meters... when they get too saturated with whatever we're trying to kill them with, we put them in our aging ovens (55°C) and they usually dry out enough to the point of working again. I'm not recommending a microwave or oven, but perhaps a car that's been in the sun a while?

You are effing hilarious. Sorry about the phone. I own a $70 piece of crap, so I can only imagine having to grieve a phone. But I'm imagining hard for you, and I'm so, so sorry.

Not only did the price on the 8gb iphones drop by $200 yesterday, but you can buy a 4gb one in the Clearance section of the Apple website for $299.

Get one of those if it stays broken!

I know you're feeling horrible and stuff, but that was the funniest post you have ever written (ok, with the exception of the IKEA ones which made my sides hurt from laughing). Oh, how I laughed. I say hit the Genius Bar and lie through your teeth, and make a rule from now on: NO IPHONE'S IN THE BATHROOM!

rice? am I missig something with the rice? is there a special phone-drying out technique that I do not know about, but everyone else int he world does? do you every get the feeling you are mentally handicapped and no one is telling you?