TOLEDO - Local man Carson Kellogg was incredibly angry this morning when his new smartphone dropped into the toilet at work.
The phone -- a Motorola ES400S -- was special ordered by Kellogg for international use. He paid $550 plus surcharges.
"DAMMIT!!" Kellogg screamed as he stared helplessly into the toilet bowl. Of course, he had just finished using the facility and was about to flush. "DAMMIT!!!" he screamed again.
Kellogg had been using the phone inside the stall to play a quick game of Tetris, and had put the phone in his breast pocket. The phone fell into the toilet as he reached over to press the flush button.
"He was pretty angry," said co-worker Osmond Booner, who had been using a urinal a few feet away. "I learned a few new curse words in there, and I was in a frat at NYU," Booner said, chuckling.
Hoping to retrieve the phone after evacuating the toilet contents, Kellogg pressed the flush button, swearing profusely. Unfortunately, thanks to the recently installed, extra powerful flushing mechanism, that just swept the phone into the sewer, prompting more cursing from Kellogg.
"He made me call maintenance to see if they could fish it out," said office manager Michelle Chiarina. "I don't honestly know what he expected. Is he really going to use it now?"
Despite maintenance man Herb Ermete's best efforts, however, the phone proved irretrievable, although offered hours worth of comic material for Ermete and his co-workers.
"He paid $550 for that thing," said Ermete, laughing. "What a putz!"
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