Phones Should Never Take Baths...

It's a true statement. Some of these new technological devises have minds of their own. Especially my phone.
You see, yesterday I decided that I would clean the bathroom. My roommates are always so busy and for now, until I start my job next week, I just sit at home. So, to help them out, I clean the apartment. It's really not a big deal since none of us are oober messy but it's just something I can do for them so that they can come home and do homework instead of chores.
Anyway, I decided to clean the bathroom. I grabbed my roomie's laptop and inserted my favorite cleaning CD (ABBA Gold) and went to work. I cleaned the counters, the sinks, the toilet and the floor. I saved the tub for last.
Well, I turned on the water to rinse it out and then started scrubbing it. After awhile, I re-rinsed but little did I know that my mischievous cell phone, located inside the pocket of my hoodie, thought that it was his duty to help. That or he really wanted to take a bath. (My phone has never had a gender before, it's a bit strange but I guess it's a 'he' now...)
Anywho, the little bugger had about a 2 second bath before I yanked him out of the water and ripped out the battery. I left him drying on the counter for a good hour before I tried putting him back together to see if he would work.
He didn't.
Panicking, I called my friend. One thing led to another (haha, Brain Regan is stuck in my subconscious) and I was talking to a very rude person at the Verizon store who basically told me I was stupid and that everyone knows to stick your phone in rice.
I was too excited about rice to care about this man's rude behavior and left the store. When I got back home, my phone took a nice long nap in an air tight container full of rice. After a few hours (and a couple dozen prayers that it would work-because I don't have a warranty on my phone any more) I popped open the lid and retrieved my phone. Placing the battery back into my phone and silently pleading some more that this would work, I flipped the phone over in my hand and pressed the power button.
IT WORKED! To my astonishment my phone was working again! I was so happy that I started dancing around the kitchen and jumping up and down. Needless to say, I've decided that I'll be leaving my phone in my room while I clean from now on. After all, you never know when your phone will decided to take a bath or help you clean....which ever the case may be!