On It Like White On Rice

This morning I'm on the train when this girl lifts her purse to find she spilled a bottle of Poland Spring in her bag! Oh, no!

She holds up a soaking wet Treo and sighs. So the woman across from her goes, "Put it in a box of rice. It'll soak it right up."

Um...

At this point everyone on the train is intrigued. Lo and behold I look it up- and the box of rice idea is actually there on the internets. But note that the method listed above it is called the... oh, I don't know... what's that? Oh, right. The old "dry your cell phone off with a paper towel" trick. Novel concept, I'm going with the rice. Heck, it works for sweeping up vomit. No wait, that's sawdust.