Lemonade apocalypse

[Terabith]

Last night, my youngest made a pitcher of lemonade in a lidless pitcher.  (Which is standard around here.) This morning, my husband went to put the milk that the milk man delivered into the refrigerator and knocked the full pitcher of lemonade out of the fridge.  It went EVERYWHERE.  All over the floor, inside and outside of the refrigerator, into all the crevices of the Leap Frog Fridge magnets, that we use even though my youngest is 16 because they are the best magnets ever, all over the dishwasher, the walls, the cabinets, even the ceiling.  Lemonade was EVERYWHERE.  

And then my husband, who is still the best husband in the world since the Great Tupperware Lid Matching Event, tossed a towel over it to wipe up the wetness and figured that was good enough.  

45 minutes later, I walked into the kitchen and promptly stuck.  

Three mops and an entire container of Fantastik and two rolls of paper towels later, I am ready to burn the house down.  I have no idea what stickiness is on the floor and what is on me.  

EVERYTHING is sticky.  

I need one of those robot things that our school district spent millions of dollars on to prevent covid instead of upgrading ventilation, that goes into a room, sprays everything, and then skates around and "cleans" it all.  Except that won't get the ceiling.  

I think the ceiling is just going to stay sticky forever.  

[Kassia]

Wow, amazing how that stuff gets everywhere!  I'm sorry about the mess!  

[Terabith]

Just now, Kassia said:

Wow, amazing how that stuff gets everywhere!  I'm sorry about the mess!  

On the plus side, other than the grubbiness everywhere, the kitchen floor is cleaner than it has been in a long time.  

[CTVKath]

I. am. so. sorry. That happened to me a few years ago about 15 minutes before birthday guests arrived.....except that it was only onto the counter and into all the drawers and cabinets. Water was my best friend the next couple of days. I think I took almost everything apart and dunked it or rinsed it. I really, really hope you don't get ants!!!!!!!!!!!

[Terabith]

2 minutes ago, CTVKath said:

I. am. so. sorry. That happened to me a few years ago about 15 minutes before birthday guests arrived.....except that it was only onto the counter and into all the drawers and cabinets. Water was my best friend the next couple of days. I think I took almost everything apart and dunked it or rinsed it. I really, really hope you don't get ants!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I think that might be worse.  At least this didn't get into cabinets and drawers, with all the things inside of them.  

[CTVKath]

1 minute ago, Terabith said:

Okay, I think that might be worse.  At least this didn't get into cabinets and drawers, with all the things inside of them.  

Actually it was easier because I just put all the drawer and cabinet stuff into the dishwasher. It was the insides of the drawers and cabinets that were awful. I can't imagine having to deal with a floor or a refrigerator or all those little cracks and crevices!!!!

[Miss Tick]

I vividly remember my, very young at the time, brother trying to open a two liter bottle of Sprite and dropping it when it started to spray out from under the cap. It rolled slowly across the kitchen floor spraying and spraying. My mom and I watched agape. Then I split. She described the clean up much like you did, and it took a long time before she stopped finding sticky spots. I don't have any home-based soda memories after that date. 🤔

[Katy]

It might be time to order that steam cleaner other boardies rave about.

[happi duck]

We received a bottle of sparkling cider in a gift basket.  It had gone bad so the moment we started to open it exploded and spoiled cider spewed every.where.  Bleh.

[Junie]

So if life gives you lemons and you make lemonade, and then someone spills the lemonade all over the kitchen, what do you do next?

[Terabith]

Just now, Junie said:

So if life gives you lemons and you make lemonade, and then someone spills the lemonade all over the kitchen, what do you do next?

Thoroughly clean the kitchen?  

[Junie]

1 minute ago, Terabith said:

Thoroughly clean the kitchen?  

😞  Unfortunately.  But that's life giving you more "lemons".  So I guess that you need to make more lemonade.

Maybe you need to leave a basket of lemons at the base of the monolith as a peace offering to the universe.

[MercyA]

One of my sister's kids once dropped a full glass of purple grape juice on the kitchen floor and the splatter went everywhere, including the textured ceiling. My mom had a bit of trouble getting the purple spots off, I can tell you. I think she may have resorted to bleach. But she was super nice about it all. Grandkids do no wrong. ❤️

So sorry, Terabith. I feel your pain!!

[Shoeless]

We recently had a dropped soda can event. It sprayed everywhere like a sprinkler. 

Still finding sticky spots in random places. Oh well. I guess this is how we live now. 😕

[kbutton]

I feel your pain. I once dropped a plastic bottle of cooking oil, and it broke. It went everywhere, but it was a smaller area, thankfully.

For those wondering, I used a little starch of some kind to attempt to soak some if it up--I am not sure it helped much. Seems like maybe it was corn starch.

[Arcadia]

I dropped an unopened chocolate milk carton less than an hour ago while closing the fridge door and it leaked. Had to open and transfer the chocolate milk to another container. My mess was less bad, just the kitchen floor and a small area of the kitchen countertop. 

[Kassia]

7 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

I dropped an unopened chocolate milk carton less than an hour ago while closing the fridge door and it leaked. Had to open and transfer the chocolate milk to another container. My mess was less bad, just the kitchen floor and a small area of the kitchen countertop. 

This reminds me of when we had a package of ground beef leak in the fridge when it was thawing.  Blood everywhere - leaked into the crisper drawers, all in the edges of the shelf, all the contents on the shelf and in the drawer, ran down the front of the freezer, etc.  Fortunately, I had it on the bottom shelf.  Now I always double bag it.  

I dropped a bottle of Frank's red hot sauce once and that got everywhere.  It just exploded and we were finding some of it for weeks after it happened.  I was just glad it didn't end up hurting my kids or in their eyes.  Got all over my daughter's white tights.  

The oil spill sounds especially difficult to clean up @kbutton

[Ausmumof3]

59 minutes ago, kbutton said:

I feel your pain. I once dropped a plastic bottle of cooking oil, and it broke. It went everywhere, but it was a smaller area, thankfully.

For those wondering, I used a little starch of some kind to attempt to soak some if it up--I am not sure it helped much. Seems like maybe it was corn starch.

I have a similar story.  We were staying at a holiday house and packing to leave.  We were just doing the last check for anything left behind and putting the last few food things in the car when I dropped an entire glass bottle of olive oil on the floor!  😬

[Terabith]

So, this is embarrassing, but in cleaning up the lemonade, I found a couple spots of grape jelly on cabinets and in a bit underneath the stove, where a jar was dropped and exploded grape jelly all over a large swath of the kitchen, um, several years ago?  So who knows how long it will take to get all the lemonade.  I'm not sticking to the floor anymore though.  

Edited October 5, 2021 by Terabith

[Tree Frog]

Remember the Tupperware salad dressing shakers? I thought mine would work well to make cherry jello. It worked very well until I added the hot water, sealed it up, and shook. I had a cherry jello explosion all over me and my kitchen!

[Terabith]

Robert Frost needs to write a new verse to his "Fire and Ice" poem.  

Some say the world will end in fire. 

Some say in ice.
But some of us know that it will end with sugary drink spills that will stick us to the kitchen floor.

Okay, that doesn't scan well.

[Terabith]

3 minutes ago, wilrunner said:

Remember the Tupperware salad dressing shakers? I thought mine would work well to make cherry jello. It worked very well until I added the hot water, sealed it up, and shook. I had a cherry jello explosion all over me and my kitchen!

OH NO!  That would be so awful!

[fraidycat]

23 minutes ago, wilrunner said:

Remember the Tupperware salad dressing shakers? I thought mine would work well to make cherry jello. It worked very well until I added the hot water, sealed it up, and shook. I had a cherry jello explosion all over me and my kitchen!

My aunt was making gravy at Christmas or Thanksgiving with one of those once. She forgot to put her finger over the cap before she shook. So... the ceiling got gravy for the holidays, too. 😂

[Tree Frog]

8 minutes ago, fraidycat said:

My aunt was making gravy at Christmas or Thanksgiving with one of those once. She forgot to put her finger over the cap before she shook. So... the ceiling got gravy for the holidays, too. 😂

Yep, we had dripping cherry jello, too. A quick science lesson. It's not something I ever repeated!