Cleaning the speech

When we were kids, if we used inappropriate language, Mom would get a bar of soap and "wash our mouths out". I can't remember it ever happening to me, but I have vivid memories of it happening to my older brother. Some things you just don't have to experience for yourself.

Steve must have had similar motives this week. He loaded a batch of darks in the laundry, added the shorts he was wearing, and came upstairs to tell me that he had rescued his chapstick from the washing machine. I said, "Where is your cell phone?" He said, "That is a good question." He went downstairs and came up a few minutes later with a dripping Iphone.

I found several google posts. One said to suck out the water with a vacuum cleaner for 15 minutes each opening. Then to put it in a bowl of rice for 2-7 days. After two days, having little hope, we decided to plug it in. Nothing. We waited a few minutes. Nothing. We left it plugged in, came back twenty minutes later, and IT WORKS!!!! Amazing.