Oops...

Every now and again I do something just to prove to the world how stupid I really am. Previous feats have included flooding my first apartment by thinking I could hang a hanger on the fire sprinklers in my laundry room; sitting down while holding a yard stick in my mouth (long ways) and almost puncturing the roof of my mouth when it hit the ground on my way down; removing several inches of skin off my arms the morning I was flying to NC for an interview because I climbed on what turned out to be a VERY unstable piece of furniture in the bathroom to close the vent (I was cold..).

Luckily my most recent 'incident' was not nearly as painful as any of my previous ones (perhaps getting wiser with age?), but it was still just about as stupid.

I was packing my camping stuff last week, preparing for our Labor Day Weekend Camping trip and all of my camping pots / pans / utensils/ dishes were covered in a thin film of dishwashing soap that had broken open and leaked all over my kitchen tote. I looked at all that stuff, and since I was limited on time, decided to just throw them into the dishwasher to run for a cycle. Then they'd be all clean and happy so I could repack them into my brand new clean tote.

As I was putting them into the dishwasher, I had a fleeting thought that warned me it might not really be that great of an idea to put liquid dish soap residue into the dishwasher. However, I quickly rationalized that it wasn't THAT much soap so it shouldn't hurt anything.. right???

Um.. well.. about 20 minutes later I was rushing around the kitchen trying to get everything else packed when I stepped into a nice, wet, suddsy mess that was pouring out of my dishwasher:



















Nice, eh?

Three towels, three dishwasher cycles, and a bunch of salt (which apparently breaks down suds) later, my dishes were, in fact, clean.

Someday, perhaps, I'll learn...