It was dinner time and we were eating at the kitchen table. I had a bottle of Pepsi and a yummy steak and baked potato. Sounds great doesn't it? I reached for something and accidentally hit the Pepsi bottle. As the bottle tips I grab for it hoping to stop the inevitable. No such luck--when I grabbed the bottle it was one jar too many for the soda inside and the soft drink rather explosively gave up all it's fizz at once. The bottle was a fountain of brown bubbles! The 24 oz bottle went from full to nearly empty in about 20 seconds. If you ever saw a Mentos and Diet Coke experiment you have seen what happened to my drink. A volcano of foam. It went everywhere---the table, some papers on the table, me, the floor, a nearby fan, the kitchen window, and worst of all onto an unoccupied chair where I had put a new sewing kit with my current applique project inside, and several pieces of new fabric sitting beside it. Arg!
Well, I've already washed my clothes, the towels used to get up the soda, and myself. Then I found out I had no color catcher sheets so I couldn't wash all the fabrics together. I sent DH to the store for color catcher sheets while I finished washing dishes. The fabric is washing as I type and I can only hope the Pepsi comes out of it.
I don't know what to do for the sewing kit. It was brown to begin with, but now the lid is a little sticky. I might spray it with some enzyme type spot cleaner. The project inside is dry as can be so no worries there.
Anyway, the lessons I learned tonight: Sometimes it is better to let something fall over and spill rather than try to catch it in mid-tip. And After a soda volcano, what little drink is left in the bottle is really, really, really flat. Debra in VA See my quilts at