Amazing ride in the Washing Machine

Sooo... I have the 8GB original iPhone, a pair of jeans, and a front loading washing machine. For some reason, I decided that, while I was doing some laundry, the jeans I was wearing needed to be thrown into the wash I was loading. So I emptied my pockets, or at least I thought I did, and threw the jeans in.
One regular cycle later, I start gathering my clothes out of the washer, and remember that my phone was in my jeans pocket. Curses rang out that I am sure were heard for miles around. When I got to the phone, it was shut off. So I powered it up, and cried as the screen only went white. No water was coming out of the phone, but the corners were dinged up with scratches... and I prayed it was only superficial damage, so I put the phone in the dock and let it charge for a bit. The screen came back to normal, but had a streak going down the center, so I decided I needed to heat up the phone a bit, see if I could get the remaining water out of the machine, so I left it in the dock and started playing movies on the phone. Within one movie (No Country For Old Men) the screen came back to normal, and has been running ever since.
Long story short, the old iPhone can take a wash cycle and keep on tickin!
Mike

You should call this story
"Twenty Thousand Agitations Under The Suds"

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