A Gentle Reminder:

[NashVegas]

Check the cap before you shake the milk!

[htuttle]

1. Well, no sense in crying over it

:hi:

[NashVegas]

7. Why Cry

When you can take a pic and share the misery?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I did this with orange juice the other day

Good thing I'm strong and always give the thing a really vigorous shake.

It looks like you're strong, too.

Welcome to the magical world of Swiffer Wet.

[Warpy]

3. My worst one lately

was a small can of tomato sauce of indeterminate age I found in the back of the cupboard. The can looked all right and I knew the contents were runny, so I opened it with a churchkey in preparation for pouring it over stuff I was sauteeing.

Uh, the can might have looked OK, but the contents were under considerable pressure.

I'm still finding spots of that shit all over everything six months later.

[Retrograde]

16. never, never scale a fish indoors

the damn scales are translucent, drying to almost transparent. Took months to locate all of them.

[yy4me]

4. My catastrophe just happened and may not be over yet.

I dropped a new quart of beautiful Grade B(the best) maple syrup on the floor. The plastic container
for some reason was very brittle. The whole thing broke, splattering maple syrup all over the floor, cupboard and most of it went on the 10' runner I have on the floor in front of the counters. I am stuck to everything. Scooped up as much as I could with a spatula, took the rug up and it is now soaking in a tub of luke warm water. I have windexed the floor and counters to the nth degree. It looked like is was clean of syrup but as I walked back over a part of the area it hit, my slippers stick to the floor. Any ideas what to use? I certainly have to go over it again and maybe I'll get it all. So much for that bottle.
To make it worse, I can't see the stuff, my floors and counters are all medium colored pine, sorta blends right in. Grrrrrr.

[NashVegas]

5. Well. You Topped Me

I hope you've got someone to laugh about it with.

I'd recommend WD-40 for sticky things, but then you'd be sliding, instead.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. White vinegar

Just keep saturating the floor and surfaces with white vinegar and eventually you'll get it all.

My sympathies to you. Your sad tale reminded me of the time I dropped a full bottle of Old English Red Oil Furniture Polish on our kitchen floor. Yes, it's red.

Our floor was like a skating rink for weeks.

[hippywife]

9. Aw, man!

That is horrible! I can't imagine anything worse unless it was honey. I feel for you.

I was reading this to my other half and he said: "Tell her she has to tear up the entire floor and put down new tile." I told him it was pine floor to which he responded: "Tell her she has to tear up the entire floor and put down new boards, but she has to send the old ones to us." :rofl:

[yy4me]

11. No way, they were recently refinished and have been on the

floor for about 200 years. Thanks for your offer to take them off my hands. Actually, when we bought this house, we did have to pull up part of the floor for plumbing but were careful to put the boards back as they were. The pine sub-floor in about 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick, the top about 1". This old house is probably worth more in board feet of antique pine.

The mess seems to be less sticky now. I'll be able to really see it tomorrow. The kitchen is very dark in the late day.

[hippywife]

17. Our floors are wide pine board, too.

Still unfinished. It's one of our last major projects and I seriously think we're going to farm this one out. They are salvaged but not as old as yours since my other half built the house.

Yours must be absolutely beautiful. Makes it doubly upsetting when something like that happens. :hug:

[Lars39]

10. Ammonia in some hot water might finish the job.

[htuttle]

8. I had a worse disaster with an espresso maker like that once

I once twisted off the coffee handle while it was still under pressure.

While my face was spared, hot grounds and steam sprayed out in an upward-facing cone, leaving a line of dried coffee around most of the room at about the 8' mark.

It was the last time I ever took the thing off without opening up the steamer nozzle first...whoops.

[NashVegas]

23. Ouch!

You were lucky to not get burned. Oh, my.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

12. I've had something similar happen twice.

Once, I opened what I thought was a perfectly good can of tomato paste. Ooops. All over the floor and ceiling.

The second time, I was mixing a cake. I had one of those old fashioned mixers with the tilt top beaters. I put 6 eggs in the bowl, turned it on and forgot to click the button that locked the bowl in place. Bowl spun around and around and around flinging eggs all over the floor, ceiling, walls and cabinets. I swear I was cleaning eggs up for days.

[htuttle]

13. Ah, the ol' tilt-top mixer trick!

Been there. Done that. Got the T-Shirt (and the batter everywhere...).

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

15. I haven't seen one of them in ages. It was one that someone

gave me as a wedding present. It had like 7 gadgets that fit into the motor. None of which worked very well. But, it was a sweet present from long ago.

[pengillian101]

14. LOL!

Great pic! Also check to see that the milk cap is on tight before accidentally dropping the gallon on the floor.

Hey let's add on to your great idea! Goofs we have done and can warn others about.

Close kitchen drawers before opening/preparing food right above them. Spills are naturally drawn to open cupboard drawers. Like, getting the can opener out of the drawer, then opening the can and spilling the contents all over the other utensils is a mess. I've learned that lesson more than once because all my drawers are prone to spills inside. I always close a kitchen drawer now. It saves the grief.

[trotsky]

18. That happened to me with a bottle of V-8.

At work. In my nice white dress shirt. Fortunately at the time I lived in an apartment quite close to work so I was able to go home and change. But it just takes that 1/4 second for your brain to realize what you just did, and from that point on you feel like an idiot. I was an idiot who smelled like tomatoes.

[Hekate]

19. >snrk< >wipes tears of laughter< This thread is SO much better than the fight over in, well...

... you know. Those other forums.

Thank God I came here.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hekate

[Stinky The Clown]

21. The very worst thread that has ever appeared in C&B is better than most threads from ........

..... you know. Those other forums.

:hi:

[NashVegas]

24. I Think We Bore Them

C & B is to GD: P what Australia is to The Proposition

[Hekate]

20. Ah, the memories. About a quart of still-hot gravy in a Tupperware container...

... popped its lid and slipped from my grasp as I tried to put it in the fridge. The full container landed on the floor. Mmmmm, gravy beneath the fridge.

Hekate

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

22. The Case of the Blue Cheese Dressing

Were the blobs on the walls and ceiling the fault of the person who negligently left the cap loose or the one who did not make sure the cap was secure before shaking?

Alas, my parents could never confidently assign blame and be done with it. Anytime the old grudge books were opened (around Festivus ?) this old chesnut would be dragged out and re-argued as though it happened the day before.

[NashVegas]

25. Sounds Like a Game of Clue

[pengillian101]

26. I understood that.

I understood that, believe it or not, experience from my own childhood.

Best to ya :-)