Mobile Death Leap

It's a well known fact that mobile phones have a death wish, especially when in the vicinity of water. Over the weekend, my cherished Siemens A62 (a design classic in my book, if in no one else's) managed an impressive leap from an inside pocket of my jacket into the bowl of what is known in smart circles as the toilet. I'd scooped it out in an instant (the water, I should add at this point, was entirely clean), but it was too late: the poor old thing was, to all appearances, 100 percent defunct. After much vigorous drying, I established that the Sim card had survived its ducking, and, removed to Mrs Nige's phone (a Siemens A55!), continued to function. I hastily ordered a Siemens A60 off eBay - £3.99 Buy It Now price! - and there I left matters until yesterday evening when, on a whim, I though I'd try reassembling the old A62 to see what happened. To my amazement, the whole thing came back to life and I am now back where I began, though the dear old thing is a little slower on the button than it was. Despite their death wish, these old mobiles are surprisingly sturdy. Getting the old A62 back in my hands in working order was strangely moving - odd how attached one becomes to these things.