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The Chili Incident
I made a lot of chili tonight.
As I was assembling the ingredients it became apparent that with the amount
of stuff I was using that my largest pot wasn't going to hold everything. Or
if it did it would be right up to the brim, threatening to overflow once the
heat hit it.
So I brought in my second largest pot and split the ingredients between the
two pots.
Did I mention it was a lot of chili?
So, several hours later the two pots of chili are cool enough to
refridgerate. I open the refridgerator and start clearing space on the bottom
shelf to hold two large pots of chili. It was then that I started playing
Sokoban [1] with the contents of the bottom shelf. It wasn't working until I
figured that I could take the large industrial size jar of ketchup and move
it up a few shelves. One pot of chili was wedged in the back, and the other
one was mostly sitting on the bottom shelf next to it.
Only it wasn't sitting far enough back.
As I was moving the ketchup jar up, the one large pot of chili started
listing towards me, and downward towards the kitchen floor.
Usually, such events have the appearance of happening r-e-a-l s-l-o-w-l-y
when in reality they take like5microsecondsandbam! Only the pot of chili
didn't take like5microsecondsandbam!—it fell r-e-a-l s-l-o-w-l-y, first into
my lap (as I was crouched down in front of the refridgerator playing Sokoban,
remember?) then fell r-e-a-l s-l-o-w-l-y, turning such that the lid was now
facing my stomache and I watched in horror as r-e-a-l s-l-o-w-l-y the pot
puked half its contents over me and the kitchen floor before I could stop it.
On the bright side, I now had enough chili to fit into a single pot.
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