For our celebration of my husband Marvin’s 80th birthday, all the kids and grandkids went to Yosemite. One day on the way to Glacier Point, we stopped for a fairly long hike to a point overlooking the Valley. But first, a trip for everyone to the outhouse at the trailhead.
Once there, we observed quite a long line of people waiting to use the facility. What’s more, there was a lady shouting, “You can’t use the outhouse, we dropped an iPhone into it.” We understood their desire to retrieve it, but we certainly did not see how this could be done. But the family did. They were trying to persuade a rather skinny preteen to let them lower him down through the outhouse toilet seat. And he finally agreed.
The dad actually held the kid by his heels and lowered him through the toilet seat until he almost disappeared. Immediately, we heard a shout that the kid had the iPhone. So the dad pulled the kid and iPhone out. I will not describe how the kid’s hand and the iPhone looked. The kid just screamed in disgust, and the family made an effort to clean his hands. Now as for the iPhone, we still wonder if it survived its trip into the outhouse waste. What do you think?
aginggratefully 