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Serendipity.

That’s what you call dropping your cell phone in the potty.

Well, that’s the Adina definition of it anyway!

You see, I didn’t plan to drop my phone in the potty. I promise, I didn’t!

But I was at the tanning salon last weekend when I ran to the rest room. I had it in my back pocket…
And…well…SPLASH!

It fell in the open position, and I keep a picture of my favorite muscular man on it. And there he was…staring at me through the water!

So then I got the giggles.

I just couldn’t help it.

When the dadgum wore off, it was just funny!

And so I’m in a public rest room, alone, hysterically laughing.

And trying to rectify the phone situation made me late to meet my friend. (By “rectify” I mean I fished it out and wrapped it in a paper towel!)

And when my friend asked why I didn’t return his text, I answer, “Because you can’t hear a phone ring submerged in water.”

And that it true.

So a few hours later when the phone has been properly sanitized and dried, I give it a whirl.

I swear it gurgled.

Then it had a Cujo moment. Every button on my phone was randomly pressed. I sat it down and watched as it scrolled through every single feature on my phone as if I was pressing buttons in rapid-fire succession.

Kind of interesting, in a “man that sucks” kind of way.

And the next day I walk in to the Alltel store. A young man looks at me, ready to offer his memorized speech. I cut him off and say, “Listen. I dropped my phone in the commode. My contract is not up until October. I am not happy to be here, nor am I happy to be buying a phone. But I will be leaving with one today. Hit me with your best shot.”

After a brief moment of stunned silence he says, “OK. Let me see what we can do.”

I love how he took ownership of our problem. It’s as if he was the one who dropped it in the potty.
He tried to take the phone from me so he could see what I had. I pulled dramatically back. “Are you crazy? Did you not hear what I just said? Do you know where this thing has been? I know your mama taught you better than that! Now go wash your hands and come back and help me get a new phone.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

And thirty minutes later, I emerge with a new phone.

And y’all. I love my new phone!! It makes me happy!

And I wouldn’t have my new phone if I hadn’t dropped the other in the potty.

You never know…today’s annoyances might not be so annoying after all. Maybe you just need to ride it out and see…

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