That’s the “pop” sound no one wants to hear on the pot.
Using airplane toilets is dangerous enough due to germs, tight spaces, and lack of ventilation. But there’s no bigger gamble than crouching on your seat with your precious cell phone in your pocket and praying it doesn’t go under water.
Unfortunately for this flight attendant, she rolled the dice and lost.
American Airlines flight attendant Ally Case wrote to her 160,000 TikTok followers, “Someone dropped their phone in the airplane toilet and was afraid they’d flush it and lose it forever.” Is there anyone else?” he asked.
“That’s what happened to me yesterday,” the brunette groans, but adds that there’s also a surprising upside to this slimy upset.
“Most cell phones, like my iPhone 15 Pro, are too large to fit through the hole in an airplane toilet,” Case said. “It was red. It was making scary noises. But my phone just sat there.”
“It was too big to suck in.”
But not everyone is so lucky.
Whether you’re 30,000 feet up in the air or your feet are firmly planted on the tiles of your bathroom floor, if you lose your phone in the bathroom, you’ll be shot through the heart with lingering pain. It will be.
Becky Beckman, a married woman from Maryland, recently recovered the iPhone she accidentally dropped into the toilet bowl of her home in 2012. Her husband randomly retrieved the device, which had been in the pipe for about 10 years, during a fall. toilet.
“This was so far from what I expected,” Beckman said.
Emergency workers in Seattle, Washington, were forced to rescue a woman who fell head-first into an outdoor toilet while trying to save her submerged cell phone. The anonymous victim, who was on top of Walker Mountain in the Olympic National Forest, was trapped in the foul smell for 10 to 15 minutes before finally being able to access a cell phone and call 911.
She was washed down and “strongly advised to seek medical attention after exposure to human waste,” Brinnon Fire Department officials said. “But she just wanted to leave.”
But Case was determined to remove all traces of human waste from her phone.
“So, the good news is you won’t lose your phone,” said the Skyway expert. “The bad news is, it sucks.”
Next, she shared her best practices for zapping poop particles.
“You must really like [use] Soap and water and Windex and disinfectant [to] Wipe your phone like crazy,” Case urged. “Because obviously that’s a terrible thing.”
Despite her oily elbows and sweat, the self-proclaimed “clean freak” is clearly leaning toward getting rid of her recalled phone for good.
“Even though I thoroughly cleaned my phone,” Case claimed. “I feel like buying a new cell phone today.”
“Because, yes.”
