I'm gonna make this short as it sickens me that there is no need for judge or jury; I did it. Guilty of iPhone homicide.
Hudsens first dip in the pool, I remember sitting my 3G on the table to apply sunscreen. What I don't remember is picking it back up and putting it in the Velcro pouch on my swimming shorts.
Fast forward 20 minutes; Hudsen having a blast jumping from the pool edge into the pool with a complete disregard or knowledge of what awaits were I to not catch him. Tag Team to Mom for Hudsen patrol while I advance to the hot tub. Relaxing for a good 7 minutes when my right hand dangled to my Velcro pouch making contact with a noticeably solid foreign object. Hmm, I thought... Nahh, I thought... I then proceeded to investigate the objects dimensions with my digits realizing quickly that indeed I had just royally fucked up; well "just" 25 minutes ago.
Immediately I felt just like Hester Prinn in the Scarlet Letter, I was a lowlife slutbag whom had just been outed as an unfit father, totally void of responsibility or the deservedness of owning(parenting) such a fine device.
My chest sunk, my heart rate dropped, face flush and vision blurred as I peered out of the hot tub toward the Mrs. In the pool with Hudsey.
"We've got a little bit of an emergency here", I said. Her brow furrowed, head dipped slightly as she said simply, "what"? My answer was simple, in a motion befitting a dark comedy masterpiece, I simply raised my hand from the depths of the water holding the dead as a doornail, rigormortis'd device face out towards wifey. Her reply was equally exquisite in it's simplicity; "Really?!".
Unfortunately, yes; this was really happening... errr, happened.
Fast forward to today, luckily both of our contracts were met so I was able to upgrade to a white 16g 3GS and will still be able to upgrade the wife's phone to the as yet unreleased iPhone later this year.
Unfortunately I'm still waiting on a Jailbreak for this 3GS; having an unJB'en iPhone is like having an iPhone in a condo with no WiFi and limited cellular network... Oh wait, I have that too :-/.
-- Post From My 3GS