The First Bath

Just a month a ago I had the opportunity to have the first sea bath of the year in the city of Hong Kong where the temperature is much warmer than in Beijing and where there is sea where to swim. Last weekend, my mobile telephone wanted to have the first swim at the West Lake of the city of Hanghzhou – near Shanghai.

Mi had holding the telephone hit one person walking next to me and the telephone went, first to the ground and then to the water. A couple of people and I could see how the telephone was going into the wather (glu-glu-glu…).

One of the person who saw it, quickly called the police whom five minutes latter was there. The first method they tried was with a long stick attached to a basket. One of the staff of the lake saw that the solutions to take the telephone out had to be different.

Two phone calls followed – at that stage I decided to wait calm seating in a chair that they provided to me – and 15 minutes latter a small boat arrived with two people onboard. They brought a simple stick of 2meters long with a magnetic at the end. Another 10 minutes were enough to take the telephone out of the water.

I thank them for the very good service free of charge they had just provided to me. They did not want to accept any monetary compensation. I could read on their eyes saying that that was their job and they were already paid for that.

Only 45 minutes before, when the telephone mobile wanted to have the first bath of the season, I thought that it was going to be almost impossible to take it back. However, China surprised aging very positevely and I even reckon that very few lakes in the World have such a good service.