What did you screw up recently?

I went out to my car the other day and there were chunks of frozen brown ice on the passenger side, the driver’s side, and all on the dashboard. I couldn’t figure out where it came from. I leave the car unlocked and was thinking maybe my daughter went into the car on the passenger side, or one of her friends did, and it was baffling for a minute. I looked in the back seat and found the frozen brown ice back there, too. I then saw that I had purchased three bottles of Caffeine Free Diet Coke and they were on the floor behind the passenger seat, and since it was freezing temps, the bottles exploded. Luckily it’s Diet soda and not sugary soda, because it would be a sticky mess all over if it was sugar. It’s about 2 dollars a bottle plus deposit, so that’s 6 dollars in soda lost, and also I would like to be drinking it and not wasting it, plus now the car is going to need a little cleaning in the interior.

I was cooking, and about to start by frying some onions and garlic. I’d heated the pan, and I add olive oil . . . but the bottle had less than I thought, and not enough.

So I start to open a new bottle of olive oil, but it has a fiddly little pull-tab to get it unsealed, which I struggle to get open. Meanwhile, the first bit of oil I put in the pan is getting hot, and I’m getting frustrated.

I finally get the second bottle of oil opened, and I add it to the pan, but being frustrated, I add too much oil, and I manage to spill oil on the stovetop, and a bit under the pan.

I don’t want the oil to burn or smoke, so I start cleaning up the oil, which of course is a pain, and requires moving the pan, which I also don’t want to get to hot, so I put it slightly off the stove top, and clean off the oil.

When I lift the pan to put it back on the now-clean burner, I realize that the hot pan had been resting on a plastic case, which melted, so there’s now melted plastic stuck to the bottom of the hot pan I need to cook with . . .

Fortunately, the antics stopped there.

Those two stories so far made me feel better. I’m actually grateful I didn’t have a mess to clean up.

Hoping to get some more answers when jellies start waking up. 5:38am EST right now.

I always change my own oil. Last change was done and I found the oil plug washer in the drain pan. I was able to take the plug out and use a finger to plug the hole while I put the washer back on and replace with minimum oil loss but still a mess. A third hand would have come in “handy”.

Used all my sick days and vacation, so I had nothing by December and now I’m burnt out lol.

^^ I have 40 hours left to use by the end of this year. Here, take some of mine.

Some years ago I forgot I was boiling some eggs and the water evaporated. In the middle of the night husband and I woke to what sounded like a shotgun being fired numerous times. Golf club in hand, we warily crept out of the bedroom and finally into the kitchen where we discovered hard boiled eggs on the walls and ceiling and floor.

That’s pretty funny, @smudges.

A few years ago, I rented a hotel that had a full kitchen (Staybridge Suites). I had some cans of Diet Coke (my drink of choice haha) and the full size French door refrigerator had two drawers (LG). I thought the top drawer of the two was a refrigerator drawer so I put the cans of Diet Coke in there. A few hours later, I heard popping sounds. I figured it was ice in the ice maker, falling into the bin. When I got up to look at it a little while later, I saw that some of the cans had exploded and there was frozen Diet Coke ice spray in the drawer. Luckily it wasn’t regular sugar soda and it was easy to clean by just removing the plastic insert. It was funny.