I wear my little Plantronics Bluetooth headset hooked on the collar of my shirt. Yesterday, while I was changing the TP roll in Emma’s bathroom, I bumped it or something, and it fell straight into the toilet.
Oops.
I let out a yelp, and then plunged my hand into the water to fish it out (the water was clean). I rinsed the headset (and my hand) off in the sink, and was surprised to see the little blue LED flashing normally. It was still working.
I left it on my nighttstand to dry off. It still works. I guess I’ll keep using it.
The real question is, would I have fished it out of the toilet if the water hadn’t been clean? Would you? 
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If I dropped $100 (what I paid for my unused jabra) in the toilet, I would probably reach in and pull it out. Would I stick it in my ear right away? I’m not so sure about that.
You probably should clean your headset. I know the water is ‘clean’, but it’s something that would bother me just *knowing* I dropped the thing in the toilet.
Pull the batteries out. Get some Isopropyl alcohol, dump it in a jar, and soak the thing in it for a while. Swish it around. Then, put it in the sun for a day or two to let it completely dry out.
It’ll be clean. You wont feel icky. Life will be good again.
Or… sell it on ebay.
You are much more brave than I’ll ever be. I don’t even think I would have fished it out if *clean* toilet water….if there really is such a thing. Oh well, if the texture of your skin ever changes to mucus and you start turning green, I guess you’ll know what to do the next time it happens
This should be on the “You know you’re a geek if….” test. Hey, I would have passed too Josh, so don’t feel bad.
My wife brought up a very important issue when I told her about the post.
Your ears are extremely sensitive, there are always fluids in there, and they are warm. Stethescopes must be cleaned with alcohol before passing them to another person. Ear infections are -nasty- and you dont want one. It could damage your hearing forever.
You should definitely hit it with alcohol. Or toss it. Your ears are probably worth more than your headset.
if i dropped my headset($5,000) in the toilet
i would fish that thing out with my tounge!!
i love my headset more than any of my 50 ipods or 100 psps!!!
-anonymous
p.s. if i lost my headset then i would buy a new one with my $l00,000,000,000,000!
but hey i own my own company!!!
Don’t worry man, it’ll be ok. My wife dropped my Kjam in the toilet last month. 2 Days later, it was working fine again and have had no trouble since.
PS. She said it bubbled, so it was in long enough to get into the goods!
Can’t believe you said the water was “clean”. It may look like nothing is floating in there.. but you do know that feces remnants remain in the toilet bowl walls as well as the water. Not everything gets flushed.. remember the spinach Ecoli alert — whatever you do, don’t put the headset in your mouth. LOL.
I was driving alone and I took off my blue tooth and laid it on the dash board. Minutes later I noticed it was missing, only to find that it was submerged in a cup of ice water. Here’s one for the trash heap.
I just droped my platronics in the toilet whilst washing the F@#king thing…
still aiting to dare to turn it on.
I just fished my Jawbone Prime out of the toilet. And no, it was not “clean”. It was, however, yellow… I was also on the phone when this happened.
I had just washed my hands in the bathroom and walked by the toilet when the thing fell out of my ear, right over the toilet. I immediately swatted at the headset as I saw it falling directly for the neon yellow water. I missed and immediately proceeded to plunge my hand into the foul depths retrieving the tainted headset.
After I picked the thing up, my dad was still on the other end of the thing. “Did you hear that?”
“Hear what?”
“All that static?”
“Nope, missed that, I dropped the headset in the toilet.”
I tried to dry the headset off and whip as much water out as I could. I even ran it under a hairdryer. We’ll see if it wants to work in a few days…
I actually just dropped my official ps3 headset in the toilet today sadly i havent got it working.
but the water wasnt completly clean (yeah i no eww). but i stilled plunged my hand all the way in a grabbed it wipped it off with a shamwow(lol) and my hand to offcourse with soap and it still hasnt worked i left it to dry .
but when i put it onto the charger it still glows and everything, just wont work idk what to do