Must have been a redneck...

My sister got a new cell phone yesterday. Her old phone was savagely ripped apart by a snarling, foaming, crazed beast. Word to the wise: Don't leave your phone on the coffee table and walk away and assume it will be safe from curious little beasts, I mean boys, who want to figure out how it opens.

Anyway Jane brought her new phone home yesterday and we spent about an hour flipping through the manual since it's a different model than the one she had before. We flipped through the "how to care for your phone" section and amongst the typical don't drop your phone, don't use bleach to clean your phone, and don't get your phone wet, we saw this warning:

"Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven."

Really, are you sure?

Unfortunately I have a funny feeling that this warning is not hypothetical. As in let's say that hypothetically speaking you drop your phone into a pool, lake, river, bathtub, sink etc. and you manage to retrieve it but the only thing handy to dry it is your microwave I wouldn't recommend using it.

My guess is some bonehead soaked his phone, looked at his microwave, and was struck with inspiration. "Guys, seriously, I think this will totally work and it will be fast!" Maybe he electrocuted himself or maybe he shut down the power grid for his neighbourhood. Or maybe he just fried his phone. But I bet he tried to exchange his "defaulty" piece of electronics. And I bet when he was told he couldn't exchange it he complained that "nobody told him not to use a microwave to dry his phone and they should like, put a warning on it or something."

Hence...

"Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven."

Thanks, I'll remember that...