Late Christmas Present for Daphne

I often go to the pool after my softball game.  I bring my iPod and hook into the office wifi to read my email.

One day, I went down to the pool with Sarah. We went swimming for about a half an hour. Then when we got out and were towelling off, I noticed that I had had my iPod in the pocket of my swimming trunks the whole time we were in the pool.  I was very upset but I knew not to turn on the iPod.  I knew I would have to let it dry out and even then it might not work again.

Fortunately, I had a backup iPod but the menu button on the backup was broken.  Sarah came to the rescue and put a virtual button on the touch screen for me.  It worked fine but I was always pushing the broken menu button instead of the virtual button and wondering why it wasn’t working.

We put my waterlogged iPod in a bag of rice because we heard that that sometimes works to dry out a wet iPod.  We waited for a week and tried it out but it didn’t work.  So we put it back in the rice bag and waited another week.

Finally, we gave it one more try I turned the iPod on and it worked but there was some water damage on the screen.  After a few days, even the water damage on the screen dried out and the iPod was as good as ever.

By this time, Barb had bought me a new iPod on eBay.  She originally bought it because the battery on my old iPod was so bad.  It couldn’t even hold a charge for a day.

So now, I had three iPods, my new one, my old one with the bad battery and the one with the broken menu button.  Daphne had been hoping to get a camera for Christmas but she didn’t get one.  So I gave her my dried out iPod with the bad battery and told her she would need to charge it every night.  She was happy about it and now enjoys texting and reading email and Facetime and taking pictures with it.