Thursday, February 21, 2008

A Coke and a Smile

Lesson Learned Today............

If you leave and unopened bottle of Diet Coke in your car overnight, during an ice storm, it's best to just cut your losses and throw it away. Otherwise you might find yourself staring down the business end of a geyser eruption similar to the one I found myself in this morning.

To reward myself for completing an hours work at my computer without nodding off onto the keyboard, I decided to drink the slightly thawed soda that I had salvaged from my driver's side cup holder. Since I spent a great deal of time in my high school science class daydreaming about Luke Perry, I am unable to explain the exact molecular restructuring that occurred in the thawing process.

The events that followed are still somewhat of a chaotic blur of exploding carbonation, flashing lights, a stained skirt and lots and lots of panicked slurping. It was not unlike this:

2 comments:

Sara said...

If memory serves, in high school we both prayed to the heart-throb gods that one day we would be standing at our lockers while Buffalo Tom played in the background. Then out of nowhere Jared Leto would walk by, look at us lovingly, and take our hands as we walked down the North hallway.

Patrick Walsh said...

That's my favorite moment in all of "Extras." So much rewinding...