Luckily it didn’t happen but like… my hand be shaky at times and like… I wonder what is one supposed to do if they ever drop their phone in them lol
Like… do people just freeze right there be be like “FUUUUUUU”
Also what about like the gap in subways?
Or like the gap in the elevator?
Do people actually lose stuff like that?
🤔
You can call the city and have them open it and fish it out. Happens to my mom when she went to a friends for a game night. They were the ones that actually called people, we just got her a new phone.
I drove my friend’s RC car into a storm drain when I was a kid.
I have intrusive thoughts about everything all the time lol
Shit, my intrusive thoughts are starting to get intrusive thoughts.
I feel ya
But what if I’m walking over my intrusive thoughts and drop my intrusive thoughts in my intrusive thoughts? What is one supposed to even do then?
Intrusive-ception. I think at that point you’re supposed to wake up or something? Idk I never saw the movie
I feel like an intrusive thought would be more like wondering if you should intentionally drop your phone to see what happens.
Worrying about dropping your phone is actually smart and not intrusive. It’s very pragmatic to be concerned about the possibility of an accident and to try to prevent it. Some people don’t have enough of those thoughts…
This happened to my dad once when I was a kid, but obviously not with a cell phone but rather his keys. We learned a few things that day, one of which is that cast iron storm drain grates are even heavier than they look, but the other was that if you get your hands on a big prybar you get all Archimedes in its face and not have to lift the damn thing.
If you’re e.g. an average apartment dweller and haven’t got a 7’ prybar in your shed, I don’t know what to tell you.
I once dropped a toothbrush down the sink. Normally sinks have a catcher mesh installed but we had to remove ours as a quick fix for it leaking. I dropped it perfectly and shoop it’s down the sink. I did fish it out because it hit the ubend and stayed there but I threw it away and got a new one lol. Everything was fine for years though, it was an extremely rare shot for it to go down and not just lay flat in the sink.
This is not helping. I too grip my phone and keys and stuff going over scary things like grates!
This happened to me too! I couldn’t stop laughing about how lucky of a shot it was. I then proceeded to forget about it until I took the drain apart some time later and was surprised again.
Yeah I noticed there’s a decent enough gap in the elevator about a week ago and now I’m paranoid whenever I exit it.
Working around the stuff I do (boilers and turbines) there are constantly terrible things I think about accidentally dropping my phone in. I’ve dropped my leatherman in a few different problem things. I always just stand there looking at where I dropped it for a second before I take action. Kinda like when you fall and lay there for a second processing what just happend.
I always either put away my phone or grip it tighter in those situations. Gripping is often safer, since I’ve dropped my phone more than once by missing my pocket
When I was a kid I rode my bike to rent a movie. On the way home I lost control on some ice and watched the VHS cassete go skidding across the cement only to teeter halfway over the ledge of a storm drain. I managed to get it but didn’t know what I would of done had it fallen in.
Was that movie Stephen King’s It, by any chance?
Honestly, I don’t remember, but I was at the age where I was going through a horror movie phase. I doubt it but could of been
No couldn’t have been it because if I remember correctly it was two cassettes
Sounds to me like you definitely time traveled and somehow obtained VHS copies of It Part 1 and It Part 2 from 2017 and 2019, respectively. It’s okay, things get weird down where things float.
I do, because I had my phone fall down the street drain. Thankfully it hadn’t rained in a while. I was able to open the manhole cover, drop down and grab it.
No way, you just went inside yourself?
Bruh, I’d get grabbed by the sewage demon and never be seen again
(Also cuz gemophobia 🤮)
It was in California, which gets very little rain, so the drain was clean. Thankfully it wasn’t that deep either, about 6 feet down. If it had been in a city with active waste going down the drain, I would have left it down there. I got into the bad habit of leaving my phone on my lap in the car. When I got out of the passenger seat, it fell on the grate and slowly slid through the cracks, I just missed catching it before it fell in.
I am very careful about always knowing where my phone is placed now.
Don’t worry, if you drop your phone down there, a nice clown will retrieve it for you. Apparently phones float in the sewer!
Yep. Nowadays it’s mostly storm drains but it’s happened with pool drains and jumping off high places. I hold my keys tightly when going to check the mailbox. 🫠
Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.
I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.
Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.
I think about it every time I have to walk over something like that.
