DS Dunk

November 9th, 2007

I don’t know how anyone lives without a Nintendo DS. If I had to choose between my cell phone and the DS, I would choose the DS. If I had to choose between my computer and the DS, I think I would choose the DS. I’m not much of a gamer. In fact, I mostly play Solitaire on the DS. Sometimes I do crossword puzzles. I don’t know why, but it’s such a relaxing little device to play a game on. Ask my niece, Erica. She only likes me for my DS. (It’s fine because she’s 8, and really, when you’re 8, no one expects you to like an aunt more than a Nintendo DS.)

Steve has a category into which he puts certain devices, ones we no longer feel we can live without, like iPods and now his iPhone, and the DS. He calls this category, “If it fell in the toilet, we would replace it immediately.”

Yesterday this category was tested somewhat. My DS, perched precariously on the edge of my bedside table, tangled with the phone cord as I reached to answer the phone and, horror of horrors, it fell into a bucket of puke.

It wasn’t even fresh puke, but puke from hours earlier that I hadn’t yet felt like dumping and rinsing. Fortunately, it hadn’t been a high-volume puke, just some orange juice, and I was able to clean the DS with Q-tips and Wet Ones and get it into perfect shape again. It passed the pregnant-girl-smell test, so I’m pretty sure all trace of puke is gone from it. Of course, the wrist strap had to be trashed, as I’m sure you can imagine. (Are you imagining it? Because the whole point of this post is to make you go, “Ew.”)

5 Responses to “DS Dunk”

  1. AxsDeny Says:

    MIssion accomplished.

  2. jer Says:

    Pictures or it didn’t happen.

  3. Christina Says:

    Yup. You achieved your purpose.

  4. dad Says:

    Big EW! I can see replacing a drowned DS. But morning sickness nastiness! This would absolutely kill your sister. But with her puke phobia, the bucket would have been emptied (by some one else)or removed long before it became an issue for a DS.

    Your niece would love you forever if you got her her own DS. She is a gamer.

  5. ma Says:

    Clean ‘er up and she’s good as new. Now THAT’S a quality electronic device!

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