Did you ever park by a sewer grate and fear that you might drop your keys down the sewer? What if you dropped your phone or your wallet?
Well, the other night my friend parked in front of my house and asked her kids to stay in the car for a minute so she could drop off a package, but as kids often do, they didn’t listen. Her daughter got out of the car and her iPod slipped off the seat and of course went, right into the sewer. Yes, $150 device goes down the drain, with one angry mom and a sobbing child standing on the curb in the dark.
So what’s a girl to do on a cold winter’s night, when her friend is staring into a black hole with no tools but the flashlight app on her iPhone. It is time to turn to the handiest DIY product of them – DUCT tape.
Wearing pink flannel PJ’s, blue fuzzy slippers and a red pea coat, I grabbed a scrap of trim molding and wrapped duct tape around the bottom of the molding leaving plenty of the sticky side exposed. I lowered the molding straight down the open grate holes and jackpot! There was an instant connection between the pod and tape and I gingerly pulled the iPod up through the grate’s opening. Mission accomplished.
A happy joyful child was out of trouble, momma was calm and the music played on! Thank you: you sticky, silver,problem solving supertool.
