Luckily it didn’t happen but like… my hand be shaky at times and like… I wonder what is one supposed to do if they ever drop their phone in them lol
Like… do people just freeze right there be be like “FUUUUUUU”
Also what about like the gap in subways?
Or like the gap in the elevator?
Do people actually lose stuff like that?
🤔
subway ive done. i waited for the train to leave and then jumped down onto the tracks
elevator shaft ive seen twice. building super will have the ability to open the doors on the bottom floor while the elevator is stopped on floor >1
storm drain? i have entered them but not officially
IF your unconscious-mind is playing that kind of game, AND you give-in to it, THEN it gets stronger, in its subjugation of your life to its bullying.
Give it NO ground, & don’t budge on that.
All your life, if required.
The people who give-in to their unconscious-ignorance’s ordering them to murder people, because they felt if they just-gave-in, then the unconscious-mind’s bullying would relent … don’t get the result they were making-believing-in:
bullying which gains compliance, grows and that should be obvious.
that is true of all unconscious-ignorance’s bullying, small or great.
Give it no ground, & set about consolidating your control/ownership/possession of YOUR life, against that kind of thing.
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Ignoring it does not diminish the chance of accidentally dropping your wallet with $100 into the storm drain…
I’d argue you’d have to be aware of where it is so you can avoid it… (I’ve seen videos of people falling into a maintanance hole)
What?
Yep. Nowadays it’s mostly storm drains but it’s happened with pool drains and jumping off high places. I hold my keys tightly when going to check the mailbox. 🫠
My intrusive thoughts usually revolve around yeeting my phone off a bridge or a boat. I’ve managed to contain myself so far.
As for storm drains, I lost my keys down a deep one a few months back. Went to the hardware store and bought strong magnets and a wire and got them out after a lengthy fishing expedition.
Those thoughts are not crazy. I feel like that every time I take a picture off a bridge or tall building and I’m leaning over the edge to get a better angle. I found peace of mind in a lanyard strap.
This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.
Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.
I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.
Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.
I used to live on a boarding school campus as an administrator. My kids and I were hanging on a culvert at a pond on the campus, I leaned over to look at something and my black iPhone 7 slid right out of my breast pocket and into the water. I knew that I had like fifteen minutes before it died. So I ran home, grabbed a wetsuit jacket (it was like February in Florida, cold enough to need this) and put on my board shorts and ran back to the water with a net. I waded in, felt my body sink down to my knees in muck. It was so gross that I wasn’t about to let my head get underwater. But I felt with my feet and used the net to pull stuff up from around where I saw the phone fall (while my wife pinged it with the Find My app). She watched the dot disappear and that’s when we knew the phone had died. Never found it.
I took like three showers after that, just to be sure. And I do not go near ponds with my phone anywhere except in my hip pockets (or in a sling bag)
What a heartbreaking ending to that story.
I always either put away my phone or grip it tighter in those situations. Gripping is often safer, since I’ve dropped my phone more than once by missing my pocket
I have intrusive thoughts about everything all the time lol
But what if I’m walking over my intrusive thoughts and drop my intrusive thoughts in my intrusive thoughts? What is one supposed to even do then?
Intrusive-ception. I think at that point you’re supposed to wake up or something? Idk I never saw the movie
Shit, my intrusive thoughts are starting to get intrusive thoughts.
I feel ya
Yes yes I do
I do, because I had my phone fall down the street drain. Thankfully it hadn’t rained in a while. I was able to open the manhole cover, drop down and grab it.
No way, you just went inside yourself?
Bruh, I’d get grabbed by the sewage demon and never be seen again
(Also cuz gemophobia 🤮)
It was in California, which gets very little rain, so the drain was clean. Thankfully it wasn’t that deep either, about 6 feet down. If it had been in a city with active waste going down the drain, I would have left it down there. I got into the bad habit of leaving my phone on my lap in the car. When I got out of the passenger seat, it fell on the grate and slowly slid through the cracks, I just missed catching it before it fell in.
I am very careful about always knowing where my phone is placed now.
I feel like an intrusive thought would be more like wondering if you should intentionally drop your phone to see what happens.
Worrying about dropping your phone is actually smart and not intrusive. It’s very pragmatic to be concerned about the possibility of an accident and to try to prevent it. Some people don’t have enough of those thoughts…
This happened to my dad once when I was a kid, but obviously not with a cell phone but rather his keys. We learned a few things that day, one of which is that cast iron storm drain grates are even heavier than they look, but the other was that if you get your hands on a big prybar you get all Archimedes in its face and not have to lift the damn thing.
If you’re e.g. an average apartment dweller and haven’t got a 7’ prybar in your shed, I don’t know what to tell you.
Don’t worry, if you drop your phone down there, a nice clown will retrieve it for you. Apparently phones float in the sewer!
