ever dropped something in the toilet? at work? how'd you get it out?

[Scout]

I just did today. I'm temping, and they gave me a security badge that hangs on a lanyard around my neck, and it also has a couple different key rings hanging on it that I need. Well, I had just peed and was wiping, and I heard a "clank" sound.... one of the damn key rings with two keys on it fell right off the damn lanyard and into the bowl!! GAAHHHHH!

I had nothing with me to use to fish it out. I tried the can of air freshener, using the bottom to kind of scoop the keys to the front, and it knocked 'em farther down into the bowl... there's no way I wanted to stick my hand in there ...

Thank goddess the bathroom is right next to the utility closet, where I was able to grab a long handled mop. I used the handle end to snag the keys, and scoop em to the front where I could get them and barely get my finger wet. I had a sink full of hot soapy water all ready to drop the keys into, and soaked and washed them for a couple minutes. Had just got them out, dried them and then washed and dried my hands and a woman walked into the bathroom.

I'm sure I'd have been quite a sight standing there fishing in the toilet with the wrong end of a mop!

The only other time I dropped something was when I was working in security ... my handcuffs fell out of the back waistband of my skirt right into the toilet bowl! that time at least there was nothing in the bowl but water...

Share your embarrassing moment, please!

[ceile]

1. Dropped my phone....

in the toilet at my local bar. Without thinking I reached down and pulled it out (the bowl was freshly flushed). YUCK!
Surprisingly, everyone wanted to help dry it out and see if it worked (it didn't). I didn't have to touch it after that. Drunks can come in very handy sometimes.

[Scout]

2. Drunks can come in very handy sometimes.

true, that! too bad there weren't any around for me...

[dolo amber]

3. What kind of a person drops their phone in the TOILET?

:o

(Hides before my husband shows up and reveals my shame... :yoiks:)


(Oh, and not once, but twice.)

(And I just got a new one, because they both died.)

(And I did the same thing, reached in and retrieved it. What else you gonna do? :shrug:)

(I've said too much.)

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. .

:eyes:

[ceile]

12. I don't feel too embarrased now!

Man, am I ever careful in public toilets when I have my phone. It's like being paranoid!

[swag]

5. Courage. Courage.

[fleabert]

6. If I don't do it at least once a day, I get concerned...and I don't try to

take it out! You are supposed to flush it! ewwwwwww!

[HEyHEY]

7. Throw someone elses badge in there

ANd then say, "While you're in there, wanna grab mine?"

[rbnyc]

8. From the archives...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2293549

I did something HORRIBLE over Christmas weekend and it's eating me up.

Hubby, baby and I spent the night at his parents' house. At about 3 am Sunday Morning I got up to go to the bathroom. I went, I flushed, I washed my hands, I reached for a towel and my hand hit something, and I heard a little splash and a terrible noise. I had knocked my deodorant into the still-flushing toilet and it went down.

I got the plunger and tried to plunge it out, but it wouldn't come up.

I thought about what to do. Do I wake up my husband, who never gets any sleep because we're new parents? Do I wake up my father-in-law, a gigantic, grumpy man who has to get up at 6 am for a 10-hour flight?

I tried the plunger again. Nothing. So I flushed the toilet again to see what would happen. The water went down.

Then I thought, am I really sure it was my deodorant I knocked into the toilet? I'm tired. It's dark. It could have been anything. It could have been something small that just went through. I really have no idea what happened. Maybe, nothing happened at all. And I went back to bed.

When my husband got up in the morning to use the bathroom, my heart was in my throat. But he flushed and all was well. We went downstairs for breakfast.

Then we heard, "Fuck! Oh my God! Fucking Damn! Ahhhh!"

The toilet back up on my husband's little brother. He spent about an hour plunging the toilet and cleaning it up. But never said anything about a deodorant.

I just kept my mouth shut while Uncle Walter joked about the football he must have passed in order to cause such a terrible clog.

As we were packing to leave, I just casually mentioned not being able to find my deodorant.

I am EVIL!!!!! I am the root of all EVIL!!!!! I am a DECEIVER! I am so BAD!

[chaska]

10. God, you are evil....

Kudos!

[rbnyc]

11. Later, I was discovered.

Uncle Walter had to take the whole bathroom apart, and he found the deodorant.

No one knew it was mine, but I just couldn't take it anymore and I confessed.

The whole bathroom was remodeled that year.

[Kali]

14. Ani DiFranco dropped a mascara into an upstairs toilet

at our radio station! REALLY messed up the building - they had to do all kinds of work because of the nature of the water damage.

[huskerlaw]

15. Similar story...

my former roomie dropped a hair clip in the toilet and of course, it went down...and got stuck.

We had to call the landlord, who tried sticking just about everything he could think of down there to pull it out...nothing worked. Including a plumbing snake.

The poor guy had to take the entire toilet apart.

Woops.

[chaska]

9. Unpleasant as it may sound, hands are washable, and even waterproof.

[Kali]

13. Oh my god, why did you remind me?

Not at work, but at a big concert event. I was carrying a stack of campaign bookmarks in my pocket and was in a CROWDED restroom with a huge line waiting and they fell out of my pocket right into the water (oh yes, before the flush) What could I do? They had my freaking NAME on them. I had to do it. Then I had to deal with them too! Had to get them to the trash can OUTSIDE of the stall. Thank GOD there was soap at the sinks.




At least it was just pee. Don't think I could have retreived them .... ugh don't want to think about this anymore.