Crap, My Electronics Are Awash in Soda

**Dolemite** · 04 Dec 2007, 04:51 PM

I'm at work, I’m going to lunch, I stick a bottle of Diet Pepsi in my big green canvas bag that I keep all my shit in, and start walking downstairs. On the first floor, I stop in the bathroom and suddenly I feel something dripping on my leg. I look and it's fucking soda, coming from my bag. I guess I didn't screw the cap on as tightly as I thought. I open the bag, and the bottle, which was over half full, is empty, and the contents of my bag are SUBMERGED IN DIET PEPSI. I guess it's a really well-made bag as very little of it was dripping out. Among the items awash in a sea of soda:

Sony digital camera w/2GB memory stick and rechargeable battery
512MB USB flash drive
Norelco electric razor (not a problem, it's designed to get wet)
Spiral sketch book

Lucky for me, my 30BG iPod was in a separate pocket that was above the soda, and thus was soda-free, but the fact remains that all the stuff I listed above was literally FLOATING in Pepsi. Any chance that, if I let them air-dry, that they all might be salvageable? I'm hoping that the soda being diet (no sugar) might play a factor.

Regardless, the sketch book is ruined. It's warped as shit.

**SamuraiMoogle** · 04 Dec 2007, 04:55 PM

I assume you at least dried them off as best as possible. Soda is going to make the stuff sticky sticky sticky.

Prepare yourself now, you may be fucked.

**kingoffighters** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:02 PM

Your flash drive might work, and the memory stick. But RIP, little camera.

**Pineapple** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:04 PM

lol that really sucks, although given that they were floating in that shit, I don't see that there's much you can do. hope for the best, prepare to buy new shit.

**Rumpy** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:05 PM

That'll teach you to drink Diet Pepsi.

**Dolemite** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:21 PM

Yeah, from what people are telling me the memory stick and USB drive should be okay, but the camera is probably fucked. Good thing it's an older camera and I have a newer one at home as a back-up.

**Nick** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:22 PM

I refuse to sympathize with you until you give this topic a more descriptive title.

**Dolemite** · 04 Dec 2007, 05:25 PM

I am unable to rename the thread myself, but if you could change it to "Crap, my electronic shit is awash in soda" I would be more than happy to soak up all the sympathy you can muster.