Hello, everyone! Today, for no reason in particular, I'd like to share my story of how I lost my Pokewalker at the most disgusting and unlikely of places you can possibly imagine. So as a forewarning, if you're eating something right now, I highly recommend you read this after you're done! And now without further ado, let's move on to the story:
The death of my poor Pokewalker happened shortly after I got it when Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver just came out. As a huge Pokemon fan, I was excited to try out the cool device as it allowed you to take one of your Pokemon along with you straight out of the DS! I used it to walk several of my Pokemon, mostly when I had to walk to school or go somewhere with my mom. The Pokewalker made walking more interesting and fun, because the more you walk, the more Watts you earn! (Watts were used to do things like finding wild Pokemon through your Pokewalker.)
One day, me and my mom got to go on a vacation to Japan to visit some of our relatives. Of course, I took my DS, my Soul Silver game, and my Pokewalker with me, since I figured we'd do a lot of walking while we're there! Long story short, we stayed at my grandparents' home in the countryside of Kagoshima for the last week or so of the vacay, and the Pokemon in the Pokewalker at the time was my Rapidash. My grandparents' restroom was, how should I say, cultural? The toilet was fixed to the ground, so you'd have to kind of squat above it to do your business. (Tokyo Disneyland has these toilets as well.)
What I hated about this toilet was not only the way you have to stand to use it, but the strong smell of accumulated human waste coming from down below! You see, since it's a countryside toilet, there's no water to flush with, so all the waste just drops into the deep underground, where a truck will eventually come and vacuum up all the waste. Anyway, one time when I had to use this godawful toilet, my Pokewalker was clipped onto the side of my pants. After I pulled my pants back up, guess what happened?
The Pokewalker came off as soon as I pulled my pants up, and it fell right into the toilet and landed on a pile of soft human waste! "Oh shit!"(pun intended) was kind of my I reaction when I realized that I can't reach down there and get my poor Rapidash back up. What a way to lose your Pokewalker! It was right there, still working, but I couldn't reach it and it was now severely contaminated. There was nothing else I could do but to give up and accept my fate. Fortunately, HG and SS has a feature where you can "retrieve" your Pokemon from your Pokewalker, should you lose it or break it. While I did get my Rapidash back, I could not buy another Pokewalker as people were selling them for ridiculous prices. My Pokewalker is probably completely destroyed by now. If only I moved my Pokewalker to a safer place or pulled my pants up away from the toilet of hell, my Pokewalker would probably still be here. When I think back to how I lost my Pokewalker, I feel kind of stupid. I mean, of course the Pokewalker will move a bit when you pull your pants down or up! <_<
If you're lucky enough to have your original Pokewalker to this day, or another one after you lost yours, don't ever make the same mistake I made. Seriously, you'll feel like an idiot. -.- Anyway, thanks for reading my story and have a good night! :)
R.S.
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