Did you ever
 

give the buttermilk a good shake, only to discover a split second later that the top wasn't screwed on tight?
Arghhh.

Might not have been so bad if I hadn't spent the last couple of days putting a bushel of peas in the freezer, and was so ready to get back to the sewing machine, instead of having to mop up buttermilk splatters from half my (thank goodness small) kitchen.

Daffy

Nope not I. But you should see the mess Parmesan cheese makes when you shake it up with a loose top. Next time I will use a fork to break up the lumps

I've done the Parmesean cheese thing before, but even worse, in my haste to clean it up, I vacuumed it and paid for that little mistake later on when I couldn't figure out where that nasty smell was coming from. Yuck!! My vacuum cleaner was never the same after that. And Daffy, I've done the buttermilk thing with a half gallon of Concord grape juice and the kitchen chairs had just been reupholstered in an off-white fabric!

I did that with mustard right after my Dad had painted the cupboards (white) in the kitchen when I was about 13.

I once whipped potatoes at my mom's house with a mixer I was unfamiliar with. Most of the whipped potatoes landed and stuck on the ceiling. Thank goodness my 6'7" fiance could easily reach and clean the ceiling. My Mom deemed him "handy" and a "keeper". I've "kept" him 40 years, next month. He is indeed "handy".

Nothing like having eggs boil dry and explode...you'll get a lot of exercise cleaning ceiling and walls, as well as upper oven and stove...and the smell is terrible!

Glad to know I'm not the only one who has done that's----

My DH shook catsup once in a restaurant and got it on me and the man's shirt at the next table. They thought it was funny after the initial shock and refused reimbursement.

I spent much of yesterday cleaning my dad's kitchen. I have no idea what it was that I was cleaning off the ceiling above the sink.

My grandmother had her pressure cooker paint her ceiling a few times.

Back when ketchup bottles were glass, I picked one up off the counter and it slipped out of my hands. It landed on the top, which shattered, then bounced, flipped, and hit the bottom which broke the bottle, and shot ketchup everywhere, on all the cupboards, walls, and me. So I had a sticky, glass filled, mess to deal with. Never bought another glass bottle of anything liquid if I could avoid it. I was still finding dots of ketchup days latter! Lol!

*(Well. Except for EVOO, which is always sold in glass)

I'll trade that for dropping a one pound container of peppercorns. I am still finding some months later. LOL

No, I have never bought buttermilk but I have forgotten to put the top on the blender before! Yuck!

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*** This is not a shake or a explosion, but
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*** baked a sweet potato pie, put it back in the oven to brown meringue, and
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*** dropped the whole thing in the kitchen floor. They are quite liquid when hot.
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*** Found it for about a month in lots of tiny places.
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On a side note: I bake with buttermilk. I buy a half gallon and freeze it in 1/2 and 1 cup portions. I always have buttermilk available.

I dropped a bottle "glass" of shampoo on a tile bathroom floor, took several days for mopping to get it all up.

When painting my son's bedroom, I picked up the gallon can of paint to pour more into the paint tray and gave it a shake before removing the lid. To my chagrin, the lid was not tapped down and came off followed by a lovely fountain of blue paint. Thank goodness it was a latex base, but it sure took some cleaning to come out of the carpet.

I dropped a bottle of Pepsi back when it was sold in large, glass bottles. While waiting in line at the store check-out, so I didn't need to clean it up but sure listened to an earful from the cashier about trying to carry too much. Nothing else I've dropped has exploded quite like that Pepsi.

Don't ever make a smoothie in a vita mix with out a lid...

Just about a month ago, on a Sunday after church, I warmed up a plate of left-over spaghetti with the sauce on it (in the microwave). I pulled it out of the microwave, and it slipped out of my hand, I grabbed at it and caught it, but it turned on me, and I pulled it onto my stomach. It also splattered everywhere! Thank goodness I had changed clothes after coming home from church that day, because the sauce went thru my blouse onto my pants, and clear thru to my undies! I had to change out of everything from my waist down, plus my blouse.

Reading these have livened up my day. My first husband decided to boil some eggs and then went somewhere. He was the kind of person who could open every cabinet door and still not find the drinking glasses, but always left the cupboard doors open. So when he left the eggs on the stove, all the cabinet door were open. Those eggs were everywhere: mixing bowls, cups, glasses.

He was a real winner??!! That episode, and the ice cubes in the paper sack, should have been grounds for divorce, but I didn't have the nerve. After 18 miserable years, he ran off with an elderly widowed grandmother who was collecting social security and left me with everything, bills included. He thought she had money and she thought he had money and I ended up with everything.

Mom was right.

At one Thanksgiving family dinner my husband pressed the top on one of those cans of whipped cream for his pumpkin pie. It didn't work so he applied more pressure to the top thingy and the cream came roaring out, hit his pie a glancing blow and hit my mom in the face who was right across the table from him, making a huge greasy, creamy glob across her glasses and face. TV slapstick can never top that!

After cooking the filling for an egg custard pie, I poured it into 2 frozen pie shells. Unfortunatly I hadn't noticed that the foil under the shells had dropped off. Result; a sticky, hot mess all over the kirchen cabinet and floor!

Not buttermilk, but other kinds of milk and yes, it is a mess.......but look at it this way, a nice clean floor and fridge from the accident......:)

LOL, I've done that. Whoa! What a chore to clean up. And just when you thought you got it all, years later I found some pieces of egg with shell behind the refrigerator. I had no idea what this dried mess was behind the fridge, until I realized that it had egg shell attached. Made me laugh...

Oh my gosh, that is so funny. I seriously think that we each live in a comedy sitcom, but some people don't see it that way. I am glad you do.

As an older friend told me years ago, who had the best sense of humor about life, she said that if you think you will laugh at something 20 years from now when looking back, you should just start laughing today. I try to take her advice daily.