24 hours later...

John the Hell Raiser cries himself to sleep, and his mama's iPhone sits ensconced in a Ziploc bag full of rice. Such is the scene following the frenzied events of earlier this evening. David was "helping" his dad finally(!) finish removing the back deck, which necessitated a bath, which gave John the opening he needed to slip into the living room, climb up onto the couch, grab his mama's iPhone from the end table, THEN (we speculate) grab his mama's glass of tea from the 3rd shelf of the baker's rack (at the other end of the couch!), and somehow soak the iPhone along with most of the couch and end table. Tellingly, when discovered moments later, he did not say, "Uh oh..." For his part, Ned thinks the first rule of the Lasseters needs to be amended: "If Mary Beth's not happy, NO ONE'S happy; if you ruin her iPhone, you can kiss your a** goodbye!" (Update: Mary Beth takes exception to this statement: she was not mean to John. She did teach him some new swear words.)