RANDOM STRANGER, RANDOM QUESTION

[cupkake.luver]

Ok sooooo... i work for a cellphone company ((of which i do not speak...)) and when i have a customer come in and they complain about their phone not working for whatever reason...first thing i do, check for water damage....

SC: MY PHONE IS BROKEN!!! FIX IT!!!

ME: ok sir, can you tell me exactly whats wrong with it?

SC: it just randomly stopped working....

((right... and michael jacksons nose "randomly" starting falling off ))
((customer hands me phone and i check for water damage))

ME: well sir you see, your phone is not working properly cuz its been water damaged

SC: WHAT DO YOU MEANWATER DAMAGED?!?!!!!

((i explained to him how i know and blah blah all that boring stuff....
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and then it comes))

SC: HOW DID IT GET WET?

ME:

((YEA.....complete stranger asked me how his phone got wet....aliens if all i know?!))

[MadMike]

I was sort of the customer in that situation awhile back, although I wasn't a dick about it. It was my son's phone, and according to him it just "stopped working." He went sledding with the thing on him, and I thought maybe it got damaged then, but he told me it still worked when he came in, but died later.

I took it in to get looked at, and they determined it was water damaged. I was pissed, but not at them. At him.

[karma_gypsy]

So, do you think accidentally running a cell phone through a washing machine can count as water damage? I mean ... it's not like ... well ... it did go through the whole cycle ...



It's what my husband did a few months back and he cringed every time I accidentally dropped my phone ...

[Comechatcha]

My father lost his overboard a couple of years back. Had it in his shirt pocket and leaned over the side to pull in a fender or some such boaterly thing. Plot, splash. It's still down there somewhere.