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?
🤔
Those thoughts are not crazy. I feel like that every time I take a picture off a bridge or tall building and I’m leaning over the edge to get a better angle. I found peace of mind in a lanyard strap.
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.
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Used to work for a company that maintained sewer lift stations. Had my earbuds in one day when we walk into the little shack over the station. I scratched an itch by my ear, my earbud popped out and I watched it fall into the slurry. Just stood there for a moment as there was literally no action to take.
On another occasion one of my glasses lenses popped out. My coworker saw it happen, and managed to grab the lens. Unfortunately, it was a plastic lens and contact with the slurry destroyed the surface, so I had to get new glasses anyway. I was able to get a payday loan for new glasses, thankfully, so I invested in 2 pairs of prescription safety glasses!
Edit: As a rule, we all left our phones in the work truck while on site, for obvious reasons.
Slurry is scary. Half of a family my family knew when I was growing up died in a slurry pit. The dog fell in, so a son jumped in to rescue it, then the other son jumped in to rescue his brother, then the father jumped in to rescue his sons. Their sister also fell in, but survived the ordeal.
(Edit: I previously recounted it from memory, I actually looked it up)
Damn. That is awful.
Never even so much as consider entering a slurry lagoon without a tether and protective gear.
You forgot ‘and a friend to pull you out in case’.
True. Better to have at least two - the suction from the slurry will make it hard to get you out.
In fact, we never entered a lagoon without a second team on site, and one or more from the leadership team would almost always be there as well.
That’s just how dangerous it is.
Wouldn’t even go near one
The thought goes through my head everytime. One time I was on the middle of having one of those obtrusive thoughts in a carpark with the drain near my car and thinking “why do I always have these stupid thoughts?” And then dropped keys right down that drain as I was just about to go to work.
I was pretty lucky actually, it was an enclosed storm drain not connected to any sewer or anything so the keys couldn’t go anywhere and it was completely dry inside and I was able to call the number for the local council and ask for help who called these two guys that apparently actually technically don’t work for the council who told me that in fact the council weren’t really able to help with that anyway and in fact they wouldn’t normally either because of something tondo with the carpark being private property but because they happened to be out dealing with something else right near there anyway they’d swung by to help me out and they used a tool to open up this drain, hop in and pick up my keys that were visible through the grating. They did it all for me in about 10 minutes flat. I offered to buy them a slab of beer but they said they weren’t allowed to accept gifts from the public. I bought them each a coffee anyway. Universe was really looking out for me that day. I was only about 10 minutes late for work after the whole thing.
what a bureaucratic adventure
Lol it really was. Also the reason I thought to call the council was it was supposedly the council’s parking as per signage and also the machine unused to pay for tickets and yet these guys said that some arbitrary invisible line in the carpark marked the point where it wasn’t technically council parking anymore even though that’s who you’re buying your ticket from.
I filmed a lake with dark clouds over it a couple weeks ago for a video outro, set my phone up at the edge of a dock, held onto it the entire time. Could not stop thinking about how screwed I’d be if I had a hand spasm, or if there was a gust of heavy wind, or if the dock suddenly shook and my phone dropped into the lake.
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.
If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”
I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.
Assuming it survives the fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, the building management should be able to retrieve it for you.
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 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.
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.
No. It’s certainly something i consider and i make sure to have a better hold of my things, but it’s not something that distresses me or i obsess over.
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.
subway ive done. i waited for the train to leave and then jumped down onto the tracks
elevator shaft ive seen twice. building super will have the ability to open the doors on the bottom floor while the elevator is stopped on floor >1
storm drain? i have entered them but not officially
