It's also what just happened in my kitchen.
I had purchased a bottle of generic brand fizzy flavored water to try to take me back to the glory days of my freshman year of college and the Clearly Canadian water* that was at least 70% responsible for me making it through. (And 95% responsible for one of my favorite stories ever*****) I should point out here that the water had been comfortably sitting in it's bottle on the floor where we keep everything else we have to drink** for about 3 hours. I then picked it up, moved it to the counter, and left it there for about 5 minutes while I put ice in a cup****. Finally, I twisted open the cap, expecting a bit of a fizz up but nothing too dramatic. Boy was I wrong. It fizzed. A lot. I saw this happening and tried to lift it so that it fizzed into the sink........incorrect decision. As I lifted it, the water shot out the side of the cap at me, the refrigerator, and the section of carpet about 3 feet away. So now the kitchen AND me are sticky. Fan-freaking-tastic.
*If ANYONE can tell me where I can still buy this stuff in the US as per the implications on that website I'll immediately grant you any one wish that is within my ever reaching powers to grant.
**Against my will, I should add. I do my darnedest to clean the corner of the dining room up, but somehow stuff just keeps magically re-piling there after every trip to the store.***
***It IS
****Shutup, the sink was full of dishes from dinner and I had a hard time refilling the tray since I'm ridiculously OCD about all the trays being filled to the same height.
*****One night my freshman year, Haru and I had taken a walk to get either a movie or a video game or SOMETHING like that from the video place. While we were out, we stopped and bought some Clearly Canadian waters (because they were life sustaining) and Haru had some sort of sour liquid candy thingy that they sold at the video place. We went back to the dorm and were in Haru's room watching said video (or I was watching said video game being played....the specifics aren't important.) Haru was sitting on his roommate's bed since Haru had the top bunk. His roommate happened to be out with some folk because it was his birthday. Haru got the brilliant idea that he should take a drink of the sour candy then take a drink of the fizzy water and see what happened. What happened was that the water fizzed all over his lap AND his roommate's bed. So Haru, being the nice, quiet, resourceful guy that he is, went and put new sheets on the bed. Just as he was finishing up, his roommate came home. Haru just turned around, looked at him, and said, "Happy Birthday, Rock. I changed your sheets." Rock's reply: "Thanks." *long pause. Look over to me sitting in the chair.* "Hey! Wait, why?!" True story.
4 comments:
A) Clearly Canadian is heaven in a bottle. I understand completely. How often do you visit Madison? Woodman's sells it. I can't help you in the TC, unfortunately.
B) Next time that happens, twist the cap back on as fast as you can. Then you can move to a safe spot to let the rest out. Sometimes if you're lucky, the initial blast of pressure will be enough that it won't happen again the second time you open it.
A) Next time I'm in Madison I'm going to go to Woodman's and buy in bulk. Thank you! What wish would you like granted?
B) I think that's what I was attempting to do when I picked it up to hold it over the sink, but it all happened so fast that I'm just not sure anymore.
Um... you can find me a store in Portland that sells it? :( j/k
Woodman's is Wisconsin's mecca for tasty beverages, I swear. They're the only place my mom knows of that sells her favorite Snapple variety in cases. She's making plans to go and stock up while we're in town for my cousin's wedding next month.
OMG is her favorite Snapple variety the one "Snapple Apple" kind? B/c that's mine and you can't find it ANYWHERE anymore and it would make me super happy if I could get THAT at Woodman's too. I used to be able to stock up whenever I visited TC because the Cub Foods would have it, but they totally don't anymore! Figures.
Woodman's---I love that place. I totally miss shopping there sometimes.
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