Wah!

[quinara]

I was feeling Coke-deprived, and generally out of things to do before Being Human, so I pootled along to the Co-Op, the only shop open on a Sunday night, to buy some Coke (and bread and cake and squash), spent £3.75 on six cans (ie. waaaaay over the odds), came home and dumped my hoard on my bed. Then I checked my emails for a little bit, before returning to the bag to put things away - only to find that I'd managed (somehow) to burst an infinitesimal hole into the side of one of the cans and half of it had leaked everywhere. So now I only have five cans of Coke, about 200ml of flat Coke-flavoured liquid in a glass and a big stain on my quilt, the cover of which I only just cleaned the other day!

I feel like I'm being punished for not bothering to go to Sainsbury's this afternoon like I should have done...

Comments

[evilawyer]

Life is hellishly unfair. But look on the bright side. It could have been one of those blueberry Otter Pop things, for which there is no stain remover known to man.

Do they have Otter Pops in the UK, I wonder?

[quinara]

If they do then they have completely passed me by, but I'm assuming they're like a Mr. Freeze or equivalent - essentially frozen Slush Puppy syrup (ack, does the US have Slush Puppies? Like a Slurpee? Are they real?)... Because you're right, that would have been hellish! Especially since my bedspread is red, so it would have gone a really weird and skanky colour.

Not, of course, that I own any sort of stain remover anyway. My pathetic plan is probably to live with it until I do washing again in a fortnight. :/

[evilawyer]

I see the frozen treat of my childhood has passed into the stuff of legends, like the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot. They do exist! In my neck of the woods, we call them Slurpees, but they are Slush Puppies in the South, if I recall correctly. Otter Pops were (I'm not sure they still exist even here, which makes them mythic, I suppose) something on the same order, but they were the syrup injected into little plastic sleeves that you froze and ate like a popsicle. They were the same unnatural shade of blue as the Slurpees, though.

You could practice the housekeeping tip of busy people the world over --- wait for it to dry, flip it over to the stain's smaller "exit wound" is face up and put a pillow on top of the stain that you can see.

Martha Stewart would hate us.

[quinara]

the syrup injected into little plastic sleeves that you froze and ate like a popsicle

Yeah! The thing I've had of that ilk's a Mr. Freeze; they used to be really cheap, cold and tasty on the way home from school...

Martha Stewart would hate us.

Pfft! If she wants to come and clean it for me, then she can go ahead.