Dhoooo!!!! Monday 13.9.10

Oh yes, I excelled myself today.

I was at a customers' and I was doing a bit of cementing - as you do!

I'm such a girly!

This customer has no outside tap. I had put my phone and camera in the threshold of her kitchen; on account of the drizzle. Afterall, I didn't want to get my beloved camera and phone damp, DID I?

I was using, as you do, the house holders' bucket. Which I had filled to half way. 

At this point my bucket was definitely

 HALF FULL.

Then, with a resounding CRACK, the rim of the bucket snapped.

My bucket went straight from half empty to EMPTY.

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THE WATER SPLOOSHED  ALL OVER MY CAMERA AND PHONE.

No, it didn't SPLOOSH in the middle of the kitchen. It could've. No, it didn't SPLOOSH in the garden. It could've. No, it SPLOOSHED ALL OVER MY PRIZED POSSESSIONS!!
Well it would, wouldn't it?!

I stood, stock still, and thought, What do I do first?

PHONE!

The camera's zipped inside its' bag and it'll be a few SECONDS before the water seeps through!

I leggit up the stairs, ripping off the back of the phone and tearing out its'e battery and sim card. I dash into my customers' loo. I wrap the phone, sim card and battery in loo roll and, patting it all firmly, I head, pel mel, into her bedroom. I know what you're thinking, but this was an emergency ... and I know her very well and know she'll be fine with this. 

Here's the result -

(reconstructions of my feeble attempts to dry out my drowned phone)!

Then I get the camera out of the bag. The bag has a puddle in the bottom! Never mind. I wipe over the camera and tip the water out of the bag, and then hang the bag and door mat out side. Both run with water. Finally, I mop up the water from her flooded  floor.

At home the phone follows the bread into the oven to make use of the remaining heat.

3 days later and all is well. 

IT'S A MIRACLE!!