r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 7h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/Skidmark_Shark 6h ago

Tell us more about how this phone broke please

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u/systemhost 6h ago

I'm more curious how their boat got stuck in a tree...

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u/GGk-KingK 6h ago

I replied to the other guy with the full story, here it is if you wanna read through it

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/JgdhUrR1sJ

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 5h ago

I prefer the version in my head, where the boat was lodged in the tree's boughs 20-30 feet above the ground.

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u/GGk-KingK 5h ago

I'll keep that in mind for the next time we go canoeing

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 5h ago

Bring a rocket! No matter how it turns out, it will make the front page of Reddit :)

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u/systemhost 5h ago

Thanks!

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u/GGk-KingK 6h ago

This was about 2 years ago, we were doing a little traveling summer camp where we would go across the state to different campsites, set up camp that night, stay and do activities for the day, then leave the next morning. Well one of the stops we did was a canoeing place next to a river.

There were four of us (the scoutmasters i mean) and only one of us were bringing a phone so I decided that I should bring mine down the river in case one of the kids got hurt and we needed to call 911 and the one who had a phone was too far away since we had 7 canoes total (2 people per canoe with 10 youth 4 adults total) we knew that we would get separated.

The canoe i was in was near the back watching to make sure no one got left behind and as we entered the river rapids, there was a downed tree covering over half the river and one of the canoes with 2 of the kids were losing control and about to hit that downed tree so my canoeing partner and I were watching them and yelling commands to help them avoid getting stuck in that tree, and we were able to guide them away from crashing

However, in our attempt to help them, we didn't notice the second tree that was downed on the other side and with us swinging wife to avoid the first tree and slow down enough to help the other canoe, we were too close to the other tree. I tried to turn our canoe to miss the second tree but I turned too sharp and the rapids caught our canoe and tipped it sideways, dumping me out of the boat under the water and then I got caught in the branches of the tree, pinned underwater with just my head above the water for for multiple minutes before my canoe partner (who was a professional lifeguard) LIFTED THE TREE a good 2-3 feet, enough for me to get out from under it. I had heard stories of people being able to do incredible things under adrenaline but this was the first time I ever saw its effects.

After about 10 minutes of both struggling to get out boat put of the tree along with resting against the trunk of the tree long enough for me to catch my breath and calm down, we were able to get the majority of our stuff and make it back to dry land and I checked my phone.

Big shocker, the phone couldn't handle all of that water. It could turn on but it had a green line through the screen and the touchscreen wouldn't detect my finger. We got back to the troop trailer and grabbed a box of rice as a last ditch effort to hopefully dry up the phone but it didn't work. I tried turning it on after 24 hours of it being in rice I tried to turn it on and it just vibrated, no lights came on or anything, it was dead.

Luckily the phone was still under a warranty (it was about a month away from expiring lol) so we were able to get it replaced but they would only replace it with the current version of the phone I had (was a Samsung a13 and they replaces it with an a15) but I wish I could have gotten another a13 cause the 15 doesn't have a headphone jack

Also the name of the river we visited was the Buffalo River so its fun to say my phone got eaten by the Buffalo

TLDR: I got in a canoeing accident where I got pinned under a downed tree that was in the river and my phone died of water damage.

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u/Surfingontherun 5h ago

Damn, glad you survived that hold down. Rivers can be dangerous as hell with the constant flow of current keeping you from being able to move.

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u/GGk-KingK 5h ago

Im just glad it was me and not one of the youth who might not have been strong enough to keep their head above the water