So, I was sitting on the couch just now watching Wipeout on ABC.com when Betsy called me upstairs. She said that there was a weird noise coming from our bathroom. She described it as a sizzling, cooking sound. It was coming from the shower, but she was too afraid to pull back the curtain and look. It never occurred to her that I might be too afraid as well, but I wasn't about to admit that until the absolute last minute.
I entered the bathroom and, sure enough, there was a sizzling, cooking sound coming from the shower. My first thought was that a small bat was clawing at the smooth surface of the tub trying to find purchase, but as I boldly stepped forward, ignoring the little man inside my head who was crying and wetting himself, I realized instantly what it was.
Before I could pull back the curtain, however, Betsy said that it sounded like there were big, scary spiders in the tub. It wasn't spiders, but the little man inside my head fainted dramatically.
It was a can of shaving foam. Due to the oxidization of the metal around the can's seam, a tiny hole had formed and the contents of the can, under extreme pressure, had begun to force it's way out, making a sizzling, cooking sound as it did so. Imagine spraying a can of shaving foam in super slow motion. That's the sound it was making. But big, scary spiders?
What she meant to say, she tells me, was that it sounded like "radioactive spiders," which makes way more sense.
Thank you,
Matt Beers
Haha. Funny. Once there was a balloon stuck between the ceiling fan and ceiling....We thought it was a ghost or raccoon until we turned on the lights.
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