Thumb Drives are tough

Today my wife came down the hall and ask,"Are these things yours"? She was holding my two thumb drives. I said yes, where were they? She said they should be clean as they went through the wash. I shook them and the water droplets went all over. I dried them out for a few hours, plugged them both in and boopity dup they worked like new. All the files were there and readable. The morale of this little story ? Check your pockets when you change cloths, you may not be as lucky as I.