"SteveB" wrote in message
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As an aside (true story), I got back to camp and took off the wet stuff.
I
sat my hearing aids on the barbecue, since it was a black surface, and I
thought they would dry out okay. I sat the two way Cobra radio on the
table
in the sunshine. (It survived the dunking and subsequent drying out.)
Stainless S+W was okay, too after drying out.

There was not a problem until later when I turned on the barbecue and then
about ten minutes started looking for my hearing aids.

Long story short, they are in the shop, and I am waiting to see if it is
going to cost me $375 to fix these, or $2800 for new ones.

Have you ever done something so stupid that you expect men with white
coats
are going to come running up and throw a big piece of shrimp trawl net
over
you?

Closest I came to that saga was three summers ago, while driving across
Finland and Norway, camping along the way with my girlfriend. She likes
those disgusting girlie mags ("Hello", etc) which I loathe to the core. One
afternoon, in camp, I went to go sit down on my campchair, and a copy of
"Vanity Fair" or something was on the seat, with some stupid cover article
saying something like "50 Ways to Dress Up For Your Man", so I irriatatingly
snatched it off the chair and tossed it on the table, rather roughly.

A few minutes later, she came by and said "Oh, have you seen my diamond
earrings? They were sitting on the magazine while I was looking for a
mirror..." They were valued at about what your hearing aids were, and we
never found even one of them in the tall grass.

--riverman