New Use For Carbohydrates
Check this out.
Not sure what you’re looking at?
Yeah. That’d be my iPod. Sitting in a container of rice.
Don’t judge me.
After a STUPID PLASTIC EVIL BPA-FILLED water bottle exploded in my bag a few weeks ago, my iPod was soaked through and through, completely broken, frozen and dead with water streaming down behind the screen.
It was one of the saddest days of my life.
After Googling MY IPOD UP AND DROWNED, I discovered some MIRACULOUS stories about people’s iPods and Blackberries getting dunked in kitchen sinks, puddles of rain, bathtubs full of water, etc. and DRYING OUT and WORKING PERFECTLY after being submerged in rice for a few days.
Everyone laughed at me when I brought up this idea.
Everyone.
YOU CAN’T DRY OUT AN iPOD! all the non-believers yelled.
But I was brave. I persevered like our Lord and Savior. And like Him, I buried my iPod in a container of brown rice and wheat berries and went to Los Angeles on vacation.
Wait. I’m getting my stories confused.
SO! I came home.
I plugged the iPod (FYI, her name is Ernestine) into my computer.
It flashed on instantly, perfect in every single way. (Though still containing a super craptastic battery that dies after twenty minutes of use. DAMN YOU, ERNESTINE!)
Regardless, it was a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, people.
ERNIE WAS ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!
And now I am free to listen to my Totally 80’s playlist again, to my Amy Grant Christmas tunes, to really grating country music that makes my roommate go into his room and blast Celine Dion dance remixes.
In summation:
1. If your iPod drowns, do not throw it away.
2. Surround it with rice, any kind will do.
3. Take it out, plug it in, throw a dance party.
4. Realize that you are a genius. Bad taste in music be damned. You. Are. A. Genius.
My dad once ran his phone over with a bulldozer. Do you have a fix for that?
If it’s one thing we now in California, it is how to control our carbs. Still, this is a really informative piece. Recently, I stayed at a nice Santa Monica beach hotel and I ran into a woman who told me all about these new uses for carbs. Looks like they are popping up everywhere!
Yeah - it worked!!
Congrats on the awesome save!
My dad did this after he dropped his cell phone in the toilet and it totally worked!! (TMI, Dad?)
And if your iPod gets drowned in syrup, you can just pack it in pancakes. It’ll be good as new.
It seems so strange to me– almost synchronicity, not quite–I read this yesterday and last evening my son soaked his cell in soda, I a)shook it, b)poured water on for a quick second, c)shook it again and rubbed it in a towel, d)he opened it to get the battery compartment dried, and we dropped it in brown rice. Haven’t heard yet from him, so don’t know if it worked and if it didn’t…did we err, and in which alphabetical category? Don’t waste time trying to figure it out yet, it maybe worked?