If I hadn’t lost half a bottle of breast milk in my Chrome bag, I’ve dropped countless large Americanos. But the breast milk was devastating at the time.
@jwilloughby that made me remember my quick stop the morning of the companies chili cook off, 1/2 a crock pot of chili on the floor of my 1984 honda prelude
@brhfl You can remove wax from carpet by taking an old rag (because it’s going in the trash when you’re done), placing it over the dried wax, and ironing it. The wax will transfer to the rag. I’ve done this twice and it does work.
All of the above, and glitter. (Not at the same time, obviously)
Though my favorite was coolant. I drove a POS civic at the time, and living in San Antonio, we attempted to get the air conditioner working. So we took it to our local garage, he tinkered with it, filled all the fluids, declared it good. Best drive home ever, a.c. blasting, windows up, stereo blasting whatever goth metal I was into at the time.
Next day it looked like mountain dew had exploded under my car. Turned out the seals for the a.c. system were completely rotted. (Needless to say, the mechanic was very apologetic, but we gave that up as a lost cause)
That time some toner spilled over the floor sucked, especially with me being responsible for cleaning it up enough to not be a mess anymore.
/image toner explosion
The worst spill ever was this large, decorative glass bottle with some kind of oil in it and glitter. The bottle shattered, the oil was impossible to get up and there is still glitter on the floor. Kind of like what’s inside a snow globe.
I knocked over a quart of Minwax wood stain in my kitchen. That shit stained everything, regardless of how much paint thinner I wiped everything down with. We got a new kitchen about a year later.
Messy isn’t limited to liquids. I got a bunch of sand in some electronics once. I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
I didn’t spill it but, one time my upstairs toilet overflowed while we were sleeping and needless to say the downstairs suffer the consequences too. There was a lot of shampooing and some ceiling cutting and other horrific pain in the ass shit. Like alllllll day.
I’m not sure messy really counts, but when I was four, I spilled a bottle of my great-grandmother’s perfume. When my grandparents inherited her house a decade later, they changed the carpet because the stain was still there. Even now, over a decade after the new carpet, you can still smell it if you stand near the spot.
I had an assist, but fruit salad syrup all over the trunk of my brand new Camaro.
As I’m picking her up from somewhere, my dear 20-something granddaughter says: “Grandad, can I put something in the boot?” Yea, sure. (Note to self, GET THE DETAILS, they are important!)
Turns out the something was a large bowl of who knows what and fruit salad. Of course it sloshed out of the bowl, all over the trunk. Even after a lengthy and thorough cleaning (I thought), the sickly sweet smell of fruit salad syrup still hangs in the car for several days.
So this time I pull the carpet out of the trunk, pull the cover for the spare tire that doesn’t exist, and discover there’s a puddle of the stuff in the bottom of the spare tire well. The battery and air pump kit also need cleaning. Fortunately there’s a couple of plugs, so it gets a full soap & water flushout with the garden hose.
One of my neighbors is quite amused at the sight of me going at the trunk of the Camaro with a hose!
And of course my dear granddaughter is nowhere to be found during the cleanups.
Ok, maybe not a spill exactly, but the sewer main in the crawl space under the house rusted and rotted away.
That bad smell turned into an ugly mess in the cellar, and then into a $9,000 project to replace the sewer main. We wound up tearing up the floor in three rooms and the hallway because it was the easiest way to get to stuff.
The plumber that did the job was fantastic, and most of his crew didn’t seem to speak much English. But I did recognize one word spoken in disgust by one of the crew who was down in the floorboards in the worst of it: Mierda!
Hard to disagree.
Part of the cost was replacing the carpet in most of the house, because (according to my wife) if we’ve got to do it in two rooms, we might as well do the rest. Well, it was well worn.
To add insult to injury, the homeowner’s insurance only kicked in about $500 toward the carpet, because they prorated it. And they dodged completely on the sewer line project. I guess it didn’t do enough damage to the house or something.
I don’t think expelling something from the body counts as spilling, but the worst thing I’ve ever cleaned up was a car full of explosive vomit comprised mainly of Maker’s Mark, Jack Daniel’s, and great wedding food. Dashboard, windshield, door, window, carpet, seat, everywhere. Apparently you’re not supposed to take advantage of an open bar on antibiotics.
Surprisingly the car didn’t retain the smell longer than a day. Good job, whatever cleaning products I found to use!
A gallon container of some unknown formerly-known-as-dinner-and-now-beyond-dead concoction on its way from the fridge to the garbage can. All over the kitchen floor. Gag.
My Mom had a 32 ounce drinking mug full of green smoothie overheat and explode all over the inside of her car. While she was on the highway. All over the entire inside of the car, driver, ceiling, windows.
Dropped a glass jar of mayo on a cement floor. Can’t sweep up mayo, couldn’t use my hands to scoop it up because of the glass. Ended up kinda pushing onto a dust pan with cardboard.
Spilled some yummy chinese food on the passenger side floor of the car 8 years ago… Still smells like dirty feet from hell.
Just recently tore up all the carpeting and the padding is still soaked with juice. BARF!
Half a Costco-sized bottle of laundry detergent. You can’t get it wet, because it suds up; applying friction made it suds up; any dried areas would suds up if you wiped them again. That was a long week of daily cleaning.
Cleaning out a friends grill that’s used to cook lots of beef and bacon. That stinky fat sloshes all over the place and then draws all the bugs known to the area who are hungry for fat soup.
A large casserole dish full of lasagne. It made an extraordinary mess, and also broke one of the drawers in my refrigerator as it fell. But then, at least my wife’s mother couldn’t eat all of the leftovers while I was at work (again).
The first time I changed the rear differential fluid on my Challenger, pretty sure it still had the original load with the 1971 vintage sperm whale oil additive for the sure-grip (Chrysler posi-traction) diff. So it was 10+ year old dino-juice with 10+ year old whale oil with 70K miles of use in southern Nevada. I was using a suction gun (no drain plug or rear cover on the rear axle). The stench was like a solid mass in the air, and when I was sneezing and hacking from it I knocked over the drain tub with the first few suction gun loads.
The faint miasma that remained after several days of mopping up, cat-litter soaks, cleaning, recleaning, TSP scrubs, etc, was still there in my parents’ garage when they sold the house 26 years later. They febrezed the garage every day while it was on the market
Used to work in an engineering research lab. We were working with high strength adhesives that were a multi part mixture. In preparation for this I learned a thin plastic container is a poor choice for mixing strong acidic liquids. I luckily realized it in time to get out of the way. That was a puzzle to clean up.
I hate gas spills. The smell stays forever.
It is so bad I was almost mad at my brother in law for giving us a generator in the last long blackout! I had to keep getting gas.
Of course I could have told him to take the generator away…
When the people from Soda Stream print all over their materials “Carbonate Water Only” they really mean it.
I had put the leftovers from a large bottle of sangria into an empty Soda Stream bottle, because that’s what would fit in my fridge. Being an idiot, I though hey, this stuff is already IN the Soda Stream bottle. Maybe I can carbonate my sangria! I added a round of bubbles and the only smart thing I did was take the bottle outside before opening. The bottle of carbonated sangria literally exploded off of the carbonater, spraying myself, my deck, my house with wine that really did NOT want to have bubbles in it.
Not to be too much of a hippy but back in the 70’s and early 80’s I spilt my fair share of bong water in various rent places. I never worried about it.
I used my off brand imitation shop-vac on a random array of dry things over the course of a few months. Then we had a laundry tub overflow. I was already late for something so I sucked up as much water as I could and went to work.
I did not remember to empty the shop vac until it started to smell. I spilled that on way to taking it outside.
Adding dirty water to a partially full vacuum cleaner and letting it age is not wise. Do not attempt!
@l337m4n Next time this happens try covering the egg with a generous amount of salt. After a few minutes you can easily pick up the bulk of the mess with a paper towel. Don’t forget to follow-up with soapy water (or other appropriate cleaner) to avoid being left with a sticky spot.
@brhfl That would take a lot of salt! I wonder if any other household granules would also work? Maybe something like baking soda? I’m not handy to any stores, so think if I didn’t have enough salt on hand, I’d start experimenting. (And blame the goat, of course! )
I dropped a Corelle dinner plate one time and it landed on its edge. Shattered. My kitchen floor is 12x6 and there wasn’t a square inch of that floor that didn’t have glass shards on it, including some into the dining room. I swept and vacuumed and swept and vacuumed…
@pooflady I dropped one once. It bounced. But out of reflex, I did not try to grab it because most plates shatter on impact. If I would of tried to grab it, I might of saved it since it bounced up about 2 feet before it smashed into a million shards.
@pooflady Same thing happened. I’ve been told that a new plate is highly unlikely to break but one that has been used a lot and has lots of micro scratches on the surface will splinter into the thousands of shards.
A long time ago… I used to drive a forklift in a warehouse. The night before I was to go on vacation for a week, I dropped (from about 20 feet up) a full pallet of Pepsi onto a pallet of Tostitos. The mess was awful. It went from being slick as oil on ice to a sticky gummy mess. Then, because of the accident, I had to stick around after my shift ended and take a drug test. (passed that with flying colors, but wasn’t the best start to my vacation.)
I spilled a garbage bag of “used” cat litter on the living room carpet. The plastic bag caught on something and ripped as I was taking it outside. Ewww! After vacuuming many times, I finally resorted to applying diluted bleach to disinfect the carpet. Fortunately it didn’t remove any color. I probably wouldn’t have cared if it did, as long as the disinfecting part worked.
Just now, some asshole neighbor set off a massive fireworks bomb which made me jump and drop a big bowl of melon chicken salad. The bowl shattered and the mess flew across the kitchen and dining area, into the hall, around the corner and into the bedroom.
Ugh.
If meh were selling that wet/dry vac today, they’d def have a sale.
I don’t know if this counts, because it wasn’t really a spill, but I was having a tough time in the kitchen with a pie crust and pieces of it ended up on the ceiling.
Hydraulic Fluid. All over the deck of my helicopter. Took all day to clean it up and the smell… I can still smell it today mumble humph years later.
@Mehrocco_Mole wow, you have a helicopter? i got a couple here on Meh., but i don’t think they need hydraulic fluid.
If I hadn’t lost half a bottle of breast milk in my Chrome bag, I’ve dropped countless large Americanos. But the breast milk was devastating at the time.
@vanslaterco I would have died! I had such a hard time pumping.
To pick up on yesterday’s theme:
/giphy infomercial spill
/giphy infomercial spill
“Other” bodily fluids out the ‘front door’ and the ‘back door’ (thanks to Taco Bell)
@morrdt The “Funk up high” and the “funk down low”
@morrdt What did I say about taco’s??? (the extra ?s are for @dave)
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5 gallons of Chili
@jwilloughby that made me remember my quick stop the morning of the companies chili cook off, 1/2 a crock pot of chili on the floor of my 1984 honda prelude
A gas station mocha cappuccino. Large. All over my car interior.
Been a black coffee drinker ever since.
Wax. On carpet.
@brhfl You can remove wax from carpet by taking an old rag (because it’s going in the trash when you’re done), placing it over the dried wax, and ironing it. The wax will transfer to the rag. I’ve done this twice and it does work.
@rprebel Yeah, I’ve done it and it worked well enough, but still… what a damn mess. Only time I’ve ever used an iron, actually…
@brhfl Same thing can be done with a flamethrower, but you really need to be an expert-thrower-person.
All of the above, and glitter. (Not at the same time, obviously)
Though my favorite was coolant. I drove a POS civic at the time, and living in San Antonio, we attempted to get the air conditioner working. So we took it to our local garage, he tinkered with it, filled all the fluids, declared it good. Best drive home ever, a.c. blasting, windows up, stereo blasting whatever goth metal I was into at the time.
Next day it looked like mountain dew had exploded under my car. Turned out the seals for the a.c. system were completely rotted. (Needless to say, the mechanic was very apologetic, but we gave that up as a lost cause)
Ketchup. An entire food-service size bag of ketchup. Probably about two gallons of ketchup.
Pro tip: Always make sure the valve is closed before putting the bag of ketchup back in the wall mount.
That time some toner spilled over the floor sucked, especially with me being responsible for cleaning it up enough to not be a mess anymore.
/image toner explosion
@dashcloud Ohhh, yes, that is not a fun one.
@dashcloud Might as well just set the office on fire and walk away.
My messiest spill was a large batch of homemade chili all over my kitchen floor, the cabinets, under the refrigerator, all over my nice white shoes.
@mehmef were they vans?
My guts.
The worst spill ever was this large, decorative glass bottle with some kind of oil in it and glitter. The bottle shattered, the oil was impossible to get up and there is still glitter on the floor. Kind of like what’s inside a snow globe.
@gimpyestrada yeah, it’s a self-replenishing spill. We’re gonna have to burn down the whole block. Just pray that is enough.
$1,000 in quarters in a bank vault.
80/90 gear oil all over the back of my VW, the memory of the shtank still makes me cringe.
My seed. Thus began years of messes I’m still cleaning up. (I do love my kids, tho)
I knocked over a quart of Minwax wood stain in my kitchen. That shit stained everything, regardless of how much paint thinner I wiped everything down with. We got a new kitchen about a year later.
Cherry cough medicine that was ingested and vomited back up.
Messy isn’t limited to liquids. I got a bunch of sand in some electronics once. I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
@rprebel I hate you. I hate so much.
@simplersimon forum bully
/image Big Red
is forever.
I didn’t spill it but, one time my upstairs toilet overflowed while we were sleeping and needless to say the downstairs suffer the consequences too. There was a lot of shampooing and some ceiling cutting and other horrific pain in the ass shit. Like alllllll day.
@lenea9011 You need Leak Frogs.
I’m not sure messy really counts, but when I was four, I spilled a bottle of my great-grandmother’s perfume. When my grandparents inherited her house a decade later, they changed the carpet because the stain was still there. Even now, over a decade after the new carpet, you can still smell it if you stand near the spot.
I had an assist, but fruit salad syrup all over the trunk of my brand new Camaro.
As I’m picking her up from somewhere, my dear 20-something granddaughter says: “Grandad, can I put something in the boot?” Yea, sure. (Note to self, GET THE DETAILS, they are important!)
Turns out the something was a large bowl of who knows what and fruit salad. Of course it sloshed out of the bowl, all over the trunk. Even after a lengthy and thorough cleaning (I thought), the sickly sweet smell of fruit salad syrup still hangs in the car for several days.
So this time I pull the carpet out of the trunk, pull the cover for the spare tire that doesn’t exist, and discover there’s a puddle of the stuff in the bottom of the spare tire well. The battery and air pump kit also need cleaning. Fortunately there’s a couple of plugs, so it gets a full soap & water flushout with the garden hose.
One of my neighbors is quite amused at the sight of me going at the trunk of the Camaro with a hose!
And of course my dear granddaughter is nowhere to be found during the cleanups.
Ok, maybe not a spill exactly, but the sewer main in the crawl space under the house rusted and rotted away.
That bad smell turned into an ugly mess in the cellar, and then into a $9,000 project to replace the sewer main. We wound up tearing up the floor in three rooms and the hallway because it was the easiest way to get to stuff.
The plumber that did the job was fantastic, and most of his crew didn’t seem to speak much English. But I did recognize one word spoken in disgust by one of the crew who was down in the floorboards in the worst of it: Mierda!
Hard to disagree.
Part of the cost was replacing the carpet in most of the house, because (according to my wife) if we’ve got to do it in two rooms, we might as well do the rest. Well, it was well worn.
To add insult to injury, the homeowner’s insurance only kicked in about $500 toward the carpet, because they prorated it. And they dodged completely on the sewer line project. I guess it didn’t do enough damage to the house or something.
I don’t think expelling something from the body counts as spilling, but the worst thing I’ve ever cleaned up was a car full of explosive vomit comprised mainly of Maker’s Mark, Jack Daniel’s, and great wedding food. Dashboard, windshield, door, window, carpet, seat, everywhere. Apparently you’re not supposed to take advantage of an open bar on antibiotics.
Surprisingly the car didn’t retain the smell longer than a day. Good job, whatever cleaning products I found to use!
A gallon container of some unknown formerly-known-as-dinner-and-now-beyond-dead concoction on its way from the fridge to the garbage can. All over the kitchen floor. Gag.
My Mom had a 32 ounce drinking mug full of green smoothie overheat and explode all over the inside of her car. While she was on the highway. All over the entire inside of the car, driver, ceiling, windows.
That’s what she gets for drinking greens.
Dropped a glass jar of mayo on a cement floor. Can’t sweep up mayo, couldn’t use my hands to scoop it up because of the glass. Ended up kinda pushing onto a dust pan with cardboard.
Spilled some yummy chinese food on the passenger side floor of the car 8 years ago… Still smells like dirty feet from hell.
Just recently tore up all the carpeting and the padding is still soaked with juice. BARF!
Half a Costco-sized bottle of laundry detergent. You can’t get it wet, because it suds up; applying friction made it suds up; any dried areas would suds up if you wiped them again. That was a long week of daily cleaning.
Liquid Soap
Cleaning out a friends grill that’s used to cook lots of beef and bacon. That stinky fat sloshes all over the place and then draws all the bugs known to the area who are hungry for fat soup.
I just now spilled a bunch of coffee beans, which bounced around everywhere, but then I read this thread and now i don’t feel so bad.
@dave maybe reading forums while pouring beans is a poor combination
A large casserole dish full of lasagne. It made an extraordinary mess, and also broke one of the drawers in my refrigerator as it fell. But then, at least my wife’s mother couldn’t eat all of the leftovers while I was at work (again).
The first time I changed the rear differential fluid on my Challenger, pretty sure it still had the original load with the 1971 vintage sperm whale oil additive for the sure-grip (Chrysler posi-traction) diff. So it was 10+ year old dino-juice with 10+ year old whale oil with 70K miles of use in southern Nevada. I was using a suction gun (no drain plug or rear cover on the rear axle). The stench was like a solid mass in the air, and when I was sneezing and hacking from it I knocked over the drain tub with the first few suction gun loads.
The faint miasma that remained after several days of mopping up, cat-litter soaks, cleaning, recleaning, TSP scrubs, etc, was still there in my parents’ garage when they sold the house 26 years later. They febrezed the garage every day while it was on the market
@duodec I learned a new word today!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miasma
@therealjrn
Comes of a mis-spent youth reading way too many E. E. “Doc” Smith space operas, and also, later, the McGuffey Eclectic Readers
Used to work in an engineering research lab. We were working with high strength adhesives that were a multi part mixture. In preparation for this I learned a thin plastic container is a poor choice for mixing strong acidic liquids. I luckily realized it in time to get out of the way. That was a puzzle to clean up.
I hate gas spills. The smell stays forever.
It is so bad I was almost mad at my brother in law for giving us a generator in the last long blackout! I had to keep getting gas.
Of course I could have told him to take the generator away…
When the people from Soda Stream print all over their materials “Carbonate Water Only” they really mean it.
I had put the leftovers from a large bottle of sangria into an empty Soda Stream bottle, because that’s what would fit in my fridge. Being an idiot, I though hey, this stuff is already IN the Soda Stream bottle. Maybe I can carbonate my sangria! I added a round of bubbles and the only smart thing I did was take the bottle outside before opening. The bottle of carbonated sangria literally exploded off of the carbonater, spraying myself, my deck, my house with wine that really did NOT want to have bubbles in it.
@melonscoop I have one of those and was wondering if water was the only allowable liquid. Now I know without conducting the experiment myself.
@carwinew I was watching a YouTube video and I remember them carbonating milk. There was some other things but I can’t remember. The milk worked.
Simple Syrup. Carpet. Not gross or disgusting, but fucking awful to try to clean up.
Not to be too much of a hippy but back in the 70’s and early 80’s I spilt my fair share of bong water in various rent places. I never worried about it.
/image don’t worry be happy
I used my off brand imitation shop-vac on a random array of dry things over the course of a few months. Then we had a laundry tub overflow. I was already late for something so I sucked up as much water as I could and went to work.
I did not remember to empty the shop vac until it started to smell. I spilled that on way to taking it outside.
Adding dirty water to a partially full vacuum cleaner and letting it age is not wise. Do not attempt!
Eggs, come on people without a wet dry vac it takes a visit from Gordon Ramsay himself to figure out how to pick these bastards up.
@l337m4n Dogs work great on egg cleanups. Minimal residue left.
@l337m4n Next time this happens try covering the egg with a generous amount of salt. After a few minutes you can easily pick up the bulk of the mess with a paper towel. Don’t forget to follow-up with soapy water (or other appropriate cleaner) to avoid being left with a sticky spot.
@gio I dropped ten out of a dozen a couple months ago, and that cleaning that was a living hell, so… thanks. Will try to file that away for next time…
@brhfl That would take a lot of salt! I wonder if any other household granules would also work? Maybe something like baking soda? I’m not handy to any stores, so think if I didn’t have enough salt on hand, I’d start experimenting. (And blame the goat, of course!
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I dropped a Corelle dinner plate one time and it landed on its edge. Shattered. My kitchen floor is 12x6 and there wasn’t a square inch of that floor that didn’t have glass shards on it, including some into the dining room. I swept and vacuumed and swept and vacuumed…
@pooflady I dropped one once. It bounced. But out of reflex, I did not try to grab it because most plates shatter on impact. If I would of tried to grab it, I might of saved it since it bounced up about 2 feet before it smashed into a million shards.
@pooflady Same thing happened. I’ve been told that a new plate is highly unlikely to break but one that has been used a lot and has lots of micro scratches on the surface will splinter into the thousands of shards.
A long time ago… I used to drive a forklift in a warehouse. The night before I was to go on vacation for a week, I dropped (from about 20 feet up) a full pallet of Pepsi onto a pallet of Tostitos. The mess was awful. It went from being slick as oil on ice to a sticky gummy mess. Then, because of the accident, I had to stick around after my shift ended and take a drug test. (passed that with flying colors, but wasn’t the best start to my vacation.)
Strawberry margaritas on a woman wearing white. I was a shitty waitress.
A case of karo syrup in the main aisle of the stock room…took a case of salt and an hour to clean it up…
My heart.
The truth. Sometimes that’s the worse thing you can possibly spill.
@cinoclav Or the beans.
I spilled a garbage bag of “used” cat litter on the living room carpet. The plastic bag caught on something and ripped as I was taking it outside. Ewww! After vacuuming many times, I finally resorted to applying diluted bleach to disinfect the carpet. Fortunately it didn’t remove any color. I probably wouldn’t have cared if it did, as long as the disinfecting part worked.
Just now, some asshole neighbor set off a massive fireworks bomb which made me jump and drop a big bowl of melon chicken salad. The bowl shattered and the mess flew across the kitchen and dining area, into the hall, around the corner and into the bedroom.
Ugh.
If meh were selling that wet/dry vac today, they’d def have a sale.
The saddest part is washing the newly pointless cover to a bowl that no longer exists.
I don’t know if this counts, because it wasn’t really a spill, but I was having a tough time in the kitchen with a pie crust and pieces of it ended up on the ceiling.