Modern Life 16

In a hurry, feeling pleased with myself for doing the Su Doku, lean to flush the loo, phone slides effortlessly into loo. Immediate decision to retrieve it, in the water for 10 seconds or so. Knackered. Totally defunct.
Two conclusions;
1 It was very stupid of me to let it happen.
2 Should a phone not be able to withstand a bit of water?

So now the phone is forlorn in a jar of rice, time will tell if this urban myth of a cure works again. I doubt it.

The photo meantime is from Albania. When I visited in 1989 it was still very solidly Communist, I quite liked it to be honest. No cars, soldiers who held hands, friendly people ...