March 22, 2008
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Johnny on the Spot
I received this message from Stary9er:
“At the st. patricks day parade my friend was in a johnny on the spot
and while answering his phone, he dropped it in. i found it surprising
that he fished it out with his hand just to get the SIM card. would
most people do this?”
Would you reach into the toilet in the Johnny on the Spot to get your cell phone?
Comments (107)
Oh hells no!
BTW, why do you call it a Johnny? We call it a port-a-potty.
Probably not
but my phone is cheapand doesnt have a SIM cardit might be a different story once i get my new phone….
I would find some way to get it out. I don’t have some of those phone numbers written down anyplace else.
ew never yuck
No i don’t think i would, but I’ve had my phone for years. I think it could withstand a little water, and such.
And I’ve never heard it called a johnny on the spot either.
Dear god no!
Bye bye phone.
No since I do not own a cell phone. I always carefully what I have with me near the toilet.
I don’t think I would drop it in the toilet in the first place… but NO… Of course since I don’t have a cell and will continue to live blisfully in the dark ages for as long as I can I can say all of this without worrying about it.
I grew up working around cow shit everyday. I am not at all prissy about such things. But there is nothing on my phone worth my reaching into human waste in order to retrieve it. Ever heard of hepatitis?
It would be an excuse for a new phone, because there’s no way in hell I’m sticking my hand down there. In fact, it’d have to be quite the potty emergency to get me to go in one in the first place. Gross!
hell to the NO
I don’t know. I probably would.
No..I won’t.
Probably not.
NO!
Ew.. no. Then again, I would never get my phone out in one of those. Why prolong your time in there?
uh…NO…
@innerblondness - looks like you haven’t been around that much.
ugh. No. I could just never get clean enough after that. No.
well i know i wouldn’t no matter what phone i have.
who’s johnny?
@Single4Eternally -
lol
Gross. I would not be talking of the cell phone in the restroom anyway.
Try a pit latrine in Africa! A VERY long way down if you drop anything!
NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!
That is why I pay an extra fee for every month …..phone insurance.
And you can guarantee that if I EVER dropped my cell phone in a port-a-potty, I would march right over to the Verizon store and have them give me a new one!!!
If I had hand sanitizer on me, sure.
No, seriously, I wouldn’t. I don’t love my phone–or sim card– that much.
Depends
Definitely. I’d do it as a reflex and then be horrified about it afterwards.
@Twist2daRav3n - that’s exactly what I would do…
LOL wow no way
Why not? Bit of soap, hot water, and you’re right again. Would I do it? I have done it. You just gotta be brave, reach down, grab it, and don’t think about it.
’nuff said…
@Single4Eternally - Actually, I have. I work outdoor concert arenas over the summer and at a summer camp without flushing toliets. We call them port-a-potties.
fuck yes I love my phone. so many memories….
No way, not out of one of those nasty things. Sim cards can easily be replaced. I did once drop my phone into a residential toilet though and reached in to grab it. It worked just fine afterwards.
No.
you should ask people a question about this article
http://advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52664&page=1
Only if I happened to be carrying a rubber glove that reached up to my shoulder at the time.
@innerblondness -Just Port-A-Potties? You are that boring? *sigh*
I would definitely call it when the next guy went in to take a dump
Anyway, no I would not retrieve my poor phone… iPod though, that would be very tempting.
yeah i dont take my phone out of my pocket much so it wouldnt fall in. but if it did i think that i might try to get it..
no way. that’s sick.
never in a million years
besides, i wouldn’t even use a port-a-potty to begin with
Eh, don’t think so. =/
It cracks me up when people say (type –I’ve never heard it said aloud), “Hell to the no.”
I’ve never heard port-a-pots called “Johnny on the Spot.”. .makes sense, of course.
Nunh-huh! Not only the stench but being mistaken for a smurf or a member of the Blue Man Group is not my idea of a good thing to do.
So many kids put their phone in their back pocket and when they ‘get up’ they drop it in. Hmmm a port-a-potty? IDK.
NO WAY. It’d make a great post on Facebook in one of those “I lost my phone & I need all of your numbers!” events.
time to get a new phone
No..
Besides putting your hand in the toilet, who could ever use their phone again!?!?!
…I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t drop it in in the first place.
Blech. No way.
I have a pre-paid phone, so I’d just get a new one.
No way! My phone is nearly three years old anyway.
If it was a new really nice phone, though, I might pay someone $20 bucks to get it for me.
This also happened to a cousin of mine…she left it.
I would have a hard time looking or using my phone the same way after it fell in. I’m thinking with my new one I bought a month ago (around $200.00), I’d pause for awhile and maybe be tempted to rescue it without using my hands…maybe.
NO! Thats one reason to back up your contacts to your computer!!!
Glad I do!
It’d cross my mind. My brother had a phone die because it got submerged in water, so I wouldn’t grab it under the assumption that it was too damaged to salvage. However, doing it to save getting myself a new phone (if I thought it was still good) would definitely make sense to me.
Depends how much I love that phone…if it’s old and crappy (hahaha, pun unintended) then no. Otherwise probably do the same.
not for sure
you mean a port a potty?
I don’t think I would, I don’t even want to be near this poop covered phone.
That’s disgusting, but I might. I’d probably try to find some type of stick or something to aid me in the retrieval.
Not with my hand. I’d use a glove or heavy-ass napkins. Then abandon it after retrieving the memory card and SIM card.
Why the fuzz would I bring my phone into such a delicate situation like that?
Yea, I probably would.
hells to the NO!!!!!!!
Holy Crap – pun intended – NO!
No. Even though I don’t have any of these phone numbers anywhere else… no one I talk to is that important. My friend did drop her flashlight in one once during camp and she had to grab it… but she put sandwich bags over her hands.
MY GOD.
EW
F**K NO
I’ve fished my phone out of a normal toilet (with no pee and poop in it) and THAT was painful. hahaha
Omg, ew. Never. I wouldn’t be on the phone anyway. I’d be too scared to drop it…even in in a normal toilet!
No way in hell.
I don’t talk on my cell phone while on the lou …
I don’t think I would. not with my hand, anyway. Maybe if I could MacGuyver it out …
Nope, but then again I wouldn’t even go near one of those things. Yuck!
that’s fucking sick. that’s other people’s shit. i’d vomit. really, i’d never drop my phone in one, because i’d never go in one, and if i did, i’d never answer the phone, because talking requires breathing.
*sigh* I think I would but to get the sim card and then ditch it. *shudder*
This is why I put all of my contact information into Gmail: world-wide ubiquitous access to those all important numbers I’m too lazy to remember.
With something wrapped around my hand, probably.
Nope, even though they don’t/won’t insure my BlackBerry nor would they be able to retrieve any of the data from it remotely (unless it was backed up to the computer since none of it is stored on the SIM anyway) I would just suck it up and spend the money on a new one.
New phone, I suppose. Thank whatever that I have my pictures saved on my computer.
no. i can email/facebook/myspace/xanga/ask my mom for all the numbers i need.
I did fish out my glasses when they fell in the toilet at work. I’d have been blind w/o them; besides they’re Vera Wang’$.
not with my bare hands, maybe with thick gloves on……yuck !!
Oh dear..I don’t think I would ever take my phone out in one of those to begin with, but if it came down to that I would really have to say I would because I have a brand new extremely expensive phone.
Not with my HANDS!
Uhhhhmmmm no
uhm, i probably would. if it’s clean, otherwise, i won’t use my bare hands.
@Insomnia_Journal - i honestly think so… oh.
no way. that is so disgusting.
i’ll scream first!
Not just no, but Hell No. Disgusting! I don’t talk on the cell while doing my business, so I don’t think I need to worry. Though he’s a guy, so it could have just fallen out of his pocket…
I’d get some gloves then go get it, then throw those gloves away.
I don’t talk on my phone when I am using the “johnny”…
Well, here’s the thing.
Most people seem to think that Dan asked about the phone itself. Which, like most people, I probably wouldn’t reach into a puddle of mud for, because if it’s worth saving, any liquid just killed it. Forever…
However, Dan asked about the sim card… which stores all your contacts, and a bunch of other personal stuff.
I, for one, would reach into just about anything to retrieve that information. Then again, I have Verizon for the next 13 or so days, so I don’t have a Sim Card.
@bluemoon989 -
You actually can insure a Blackberry. Trouble is, it’s $7 a month and has a whopping $110 deductible with Asurion.
No freaking way. The only way I’d even try to get it out, is if I had something to grab it with, and like, a bag to put it in. Even then, I’d just buy a new phone… and If I didn’t get it out, I’d get my numbers from other people.
Eww I wouldn’t even go into those port-a-potties! If it was at my house, then maybe with gloves.
No! Diseases abound!
@AxisOfOil - Hmmm AT&T never mentioned it. Then again they probably just want me to pay the $250 to replace it, but with such a high deductible it might be worth it because at least then I could upgrade or completely switch phones. Thanks for the info though.
Gag. We call ‘em “Johnny on the spots” also.
Probably but, don’t ever want to experience that.
umm
possibly. depends on how much is in that particular johnny in the spot. and i would have to bleach myself afterwards.
i’d grab a BUNCH of toilet paper and wrap my hand in a thick layer and then get it out, run over to a water source and wash it. somehow find something to keep it in until i can get gloves and then get the sim card out and wash that with soap. phone goes in the trash after i retrieve the sim.
no way.
thank goodness for phone insurance.
a couple years ago i dropped my phone in OUR toilet. my dad got it out for me :/
It depends if there was really valuable information on it. I.e. a very important phone number that was only in the cell phone. I would gag as I got it though…ugh.
But this would never happen anyway because 1) I don’t use port-a-potties and 2) I don’t talk on my phone while going to the bathroom!
no
Think I’d call it a loss, maybe see if I could cover the phone up with paper so some other daring soul might not take it. But my hands are not going near that mess.
Im not sure as to what im suppose to say
So I can die of some horrible ailment caused by bacteria in fecal matter? Blech. Even if I lived, I would never be clean!
yah accha hai.
In a PORT-A-POTTY?!? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!
No.
Also, I find it kinda charming that you call it a Johnny-on-the-spot. I’ll have to remember that one.