i never don’t have those thoughts, which is why my keys are on a lanyard and i think popsockets are mandatory for phones, i got an iron grip on that motherfucker

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.

You can call the city and have them open it and fish it out. Happens to my mom when she went to a friends for a game night. They were the ones that actually called people, we just got her a new phone.

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)

I think it’s a variation of the “call of the void”.

Your brain has an instinct to imagine the worst possible situation to keep you safe.

People lose stuff at subways all the time. Contact the staff and they’ll fish it up. Keys in drains can be retrieved with a magnet on a rope. If you lose something in a drain indoors, you can probably open the water trap and take it. Heavy things don’t just flush out easily.

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Or like the gap in the elevator?

A friend of mine managed to drop car keys there so yes, it actually happens.

He managed to get it out with some stick or something. So attach some sort of key chain to your phone case. At least there will be something to grab it by. And carry a string with a hook with you.

I filmed a lake with dark clouds over it a couple weeks ago for a video outro, set my phone up at the edge of a dock, held onto it the entire time. Could not stop thinking about how screwed I’d be if I had a hand spasm, or if there was a gust of heavy wind, or if the dock suddenly shook and my phone dropped into the lake.

I have intrusive thoughts about everything all the time lol

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.

Yeah I noticed there’s a decent enough gap in the elevator about a week ago and now I’m paranoid whenever I exit it.

When I was a kid I rode my bike to rent a movie. On the way home I lost control on some ice and watched the VHS cassete go skidding across the cement only to teeter halfway over the ledge of a storm drain. I managed to get it but didn’t know what I would of done had it fallen in.

If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”

I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.

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…

I once dropped a toothbrush down the sink. Normally sinks have a catcher mesh installed but we had to remove ours as a quick fix for it leaking. I dropped it perfectly and shoop it’s down the sink. I did fish it out because it hit the ubend and stayed there but I threw it away and got a new one lol. Everything was fine for years though, it was an extremely rare shot for it to go down and not just lay flat in the sink.

This is not helping. I too grip my phone and keys and stuff going over scary things like grates!