I'm taking bets. Whoever is right gets to ride with me in my Porsche. (This is a post about my latest idiot move.)

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Fortunately, I have some friends on this planet. At least I think I do. Unfortunately , I was talking to one on the phone last night when the phone slipped off of my shoulder and into my kitchen sink. Fortunately, I do my dishes pretty regularly and rarely have more than a plate or two in the kitchen sink. Unfortunately, I was cleaning the sink last night and it was full of water. I emailed my friend to let her know why I had suddenly disappeared. She apologized but said she was laughing. Fair enough. As of this morning, the phone was still showing the exact time of the incident and would not recharge. I sprayed it with De-Oxit (contact cleaner). No help. I suppose land line phone handsets are not designed to be dropped in bathtubs, kitchen sinks, and other vessels full of water. It was then that I discovered, under a large dust bunny, an old phone that I must have had for 20 years or more. It says Qwest on it. I think it's imported from the cabin in Montana. I dusted it off, sneezed a few times, and hooked it up. It works. So now I have a working phone but no answering machine It was then that I had an epiphany. What would happen if I took the battery out of my no-longer-dripping phone and then put it back in? I've noticed that computers, CD players, and other electronic devices "reboot" when you unplug them. Would work with a drenched phone? What's your prediction? Dead phone? Or phoenix?