Big Mess!!

**forHISglory** · 12-13-2007, 01:20 PM

I just finished cleaning up a big mess, made a cup of tea to calm myself, and sat down here to see what's happening in the Village.

Now, I am a tidy person. So when I make a mess, it's usually a doozey. We were without power for 3 1/2 days due to an ice storm. I had to empty the fridge and part of the freezer and ice the stuff down in coolers.

Now that the power's back on, and the appliances have had time to get cold again, I started to empty the coolers and restock them. Carefully, oh so carefully, I took items out of the coolers, dried them, and put them back on the shelves (which, by the way, I had cleaned!). I emptied one cooler, and started to lift it so that I could pour the water and ice down the sink. Whoops!

I lost my grip on the cooler and it crashed to the floor. Water and ice went everywhere! Those little ice pellets just danced and skittered across the floor, slid under the stove and fridge. I grabbed towels and washclothes and threw them down on the stream. Hubby heard the crash and came running to help. We were on our wet knees trying to stem the flow, mopping, picking up ice and throwing it into the sink. Just when we thought we had it conquored, I'd step on a pellet. But I tell you what: I've got the cleanest floor in Missouri!

Then I had to wipe down the cabinets, the stove front, the fridge front, the dishwasher, the countertops....... I think it's done and over now.

This makes me think of another colossal mess-up from the past. I had some rhubarb given to me, and thought that I would cook it just like my mom used to do. I vaguely remembered cutting it up into little one inch chunks and Mom then cooked it. So I cut it up, and thought, "This stuff is so hard that it will take forever for it to cook." So I decided to put it into my pressure cooker. Bad decision.

I didn't know that rhubarb is deceptive; it cooks really fast! In fact, it blew the little thingy off my pressure cooker, and a pink stringy stream shot upwards to the ceiling. I had pink stalagtites (I think that's one....) dripping from the ceiling, pink goo on the stove, counters, floor.... I was scared to go near the thing, so I grabbed an umbrella to shield myself and pulled the pan to another part of the stove. That mess took forever to clean.

Ok. That's my confession. How about you? Have you made some super messes? Tell us your story! (then maybe I won't feel so bad.......) LOL

**ktsmama** · 12-13-2007, 02:27 PM

When I was expecting my DD10, I craved watermelon. I bought a watermelon at the commissary and decided I would cut it up and put it in a big tupperware bowl so that it would get cold quicker and I could just eat it when I wanted it. I stood at the counter and cut it up so nice in little bite size pieces. I opened the fridge and cleared a nice big space for the bowl and reached over the other counter to get the bowl. While I was turning around the door on the fridge started closing and I bumped it with the bowl. Needless to say watermelon went everywhere. All I could do is sit on the floor and cry. Not for the sticky, sticky mess, but because I was craving watermelon. That's what pregnancy hormones will do to you! lol

**MarshHen** · 12-13-2007, 02:34 PM

Wow, I've had that happen to me before when I've tried to empty a cooler full of water down the kitchen sink. It's one of those Duh! moments when you realize two seconds later that you could have taken just a few steps to the back door to empty it, LOL. What a mess, too. Glad you had hubby there to help.

I would have to say my most recent mess (rotten, stinky mess

) was summer before last when we were building the house. We have one of our large chest freezers in a little shed behind the house here and at the time it had deer meat, shrimp, fish, crab and a 20 lb turkey that we given to us in it. We were living in our camper while we were building and one of the construction guys came over one day and asked if they could use our power since their generator wasn't working for some reason. I said sure, and told them to make sure they didn't unplug that freezer, and they said O.K., they would make sure they didn't. Well, I had to leave to pick DD up from school and drive to the next town for a dentist appointment and grocery shopping and was tired when I got home and didn't think to check the freezer when I got home. Next morning, I went to it to get out some shrimp to thaw and fry outside on our cooker for supper that night and realized everything was defrosted, ruined and stinking to high heavens! I had to get it out of there as quickly as possible thinking maybe I could save the freezer from being ruined from the horrible, putrid smell, so I would grab stuff and put it in trash bags, puke, and then go in head first again. It was horrible! I called the contractor and he paid for the ruined freezer and the food I lost, but I will never forget that smell as long as I live, and it took months it seemed for me to stop smelling it from time to time.

**justpeachy92** · 12-13-2007, 03:31 PM

A few years back dh bought me a microwave at Sams Club. It is a bigger microwave, probably marketed more for restuarants. I put a whole spaghettie squash in there for 3 minutes, is how long it took in the old one to soften it up so it was easy to cut in half. At about 2 minutes the squash exploded.

**karone** · 12-13-2007, 03:33 PM

funniest/little gross was a month or two b4 joining here merrick decided he wanted to take his diaper off and put a carton of small tomatoes in it then close the door. i threw the diaper away lauging.

**mom2bobsarah** · 12-13-2007, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by forHISglory

This makes me think of another colossal mess-up from the past. I had some rhubarb given to me, and thought that I would cook it just like my mom used to do. I vaguely remembered cutting it up into little one inch chunks and Mom then cooked it. So I cut it up, and thought, "This stuff is so hard that it will take forever for it to cook." So I decided to put it into my pressure cooker. Bad decision.

I didn't know that rhubarb is deceptive; it cooks really fast! In fact, it blew the little thingy off my pressure cooker, and a pink stringy stream shot upwards to the ceiling. I had pink stalagtites (I think that's one....) dripping from the ceiling, pink goo on the stove, counters, floor.... I was scared to go near the thing, so I grabbed an umbrella to shield myself and pulled the pan to another part of the stove. That mess took forever to clean.

Ok. That's my confession. How about you? Have you made some super messes? Tell us your story! (then maybe I won't feel so bad.......) LOL

Please forgive me while I have a good chuckle at your expense. Ok, now that I am done with that, I had a time when I was younger that I opened a 2-liter of Root Beer and it exploded all over the floor, ceiling, cabinets, the whole darn kitchen. If I did not know better I would swear that someone had shaken it up. Oh whata mess that was. You rhubarb remined of it. Thanks for the smiles, I can really use them this week.

**HisDaisy** · 12-13-2007, 11:25 PM

My big mess occurred I couple weeks ago. I opened the refrigerator, and a large gladware container (the kind with the screw top lid) fell out. It hit the floor and shattered. I had at least 4 cups of salsa all over the floor, the wall and the refrigerator.
Did I mention that our rental house has carpet in the kitchen (and the bathroom)? I spent over an hour cleaning up salsa. When I told my DH, he offered to take me out to dinner.
Do you know where he wanted to go? Taco Bell!! Needless to say I wanted nothing to do with Mexican food. We ended up at Arby’s.
The moral is be carefully how you put the salsa in the refrigerator and do not put carpet in the kitchen. By the way I know have a kitchen rug in front of the refrigerator.

**forHISglory** · 12-13-2007, 11:32 PM

Your stories are wonderful! I'm a registered klutz, and I feel better already knowing there are kindred souls out there. Thanks for your stories, and I'd love to hear more!

**monkeymia** · 12-14-2007, 04:16 AM

You poor thing.

**MarshHen** · 12-14-2007, 03:45 PM

Well rats! The bottom of my large, chocolate Frosty cup fell out and splattered all over my hardwood kitchen floor that I just mopped yesterday.

I'm sitting here typing this while the cat and the Chihuahua have a go of it (lick,lick) and then I'll clean up what they don't get. Honestly, I'm more upset about the frosty than the floor. I really wanted it and waited till I got all the way home so I could relax and enjoy it. I'm so bummed. I had a coupon for it too. I want to

**northernmom2boys** · 12-14-2007, 03:58 PM

Not long after I had my first ds my dh sisters came over to visit and I dropped a huge jar of pickles on the floor,those big jars at Costco.Shattered the jar and I had pickle juice everywhere
My kitchen smelt like pickles even after washing the floor lol

**MarshHen** · 12-14-2007, 04:04 PM

Oh no, I'm not a pickle eater cause of the smell, Yuck, so I feel your pain.

**Squirt** · 12-14-2007, 04:42 PM

Not messy, but surprising: I keep my gallon jugs of water on top of the fridge, and one fell on me when I opened the refrigerator door. Busted on my head, drenched me, soaked the insides of the fridge as well as my carpet.

**geckoace** · 12-14-2007, 07:47 PM

when we were rehabing our house. My sister and I refinished the hardwood floors well we were to the varnish phase, I was carrying a semi-opened half full 2.5gal can from the front door around to thebackdoor along with an arm load of handles and pads and managed to spill about a gallon of polyurethane DOWn MY PANTs!!!! So of corse I had to strip down so my sis could drive me to our rental house and run in the house pantless so I could wash with mineral spirits......LOL

**dcompton** · 12-14-2007, 08:40 PM

Well, three stand out in my experience. The first was when I was moving into a new apartment and a can of white paint fell off the cart and popped open on the green carpet just inside the front door. I was madly searching among boxes for ANYTHING to mop and sop it up with - I finally found some sheets. I eventually got enough up that you had to really spread the carpet fibers and peer into it to see it. But I was afraid for a while that I was going to have the shortest lease on record - evicted before I even got all the boxes carried in!

The second was one of those "I don't believe I just did that" moments. I had a blender full of frozen raspberries and turned it on -- without putting the little center piece back into the lid. Yep, raspberry all over the walls and ceiling. Unhappily, it was right under a waffle textured cover on a fluorescent fixture. When I moved out, there were bits of raspberry still up there that I was never able to get out, but apparently no one noticed because I got the whole deposit back.

The third, and probably the worst of the three to clean up, (well, probably worse than the raspberries!) was the time I turned around from the sink and dropped a big glass jar of oil on the floor. Mopping up was a horror. It seemed like the more I mopped, the worse it got. Lesson learned. I handle jars of oil Very Carefully now, to avoid future "oil spills." Any birds wandering into my kitchen would have been goners, for sure.