Dear Blog Readers,
This is a post I wrote about a year ago, but never got around to posting. It's not exactly about the wedding, but on the lighter side of life. Hope you enjoy!
Benjamin
I wanted to tell about something funny that happened to me the other day.
It's my job to wash the dishes after breakfast, so after breakfast I promptly started washing them. I placed a few washed dishes on one side of the sink and started to rinse them off. I got to the bottom of the pile, but a little yellow sippy cup had been pushed down into the garbage disposal!
"Houston, we have a problem!" OK. It's not quite that bad, but completely in the realm of "difficult to deal with".
I flipped out my handy dandy Leatherman tool and waded into the fray. I informed Mom of the goings on (after about five minutes of trying to get this thing out) and she got another pair of pliers out.
Fifteen to twenty minutes later (probably it wasn't really that long), Mom had to go and help one of my siblings with something else; this left me frantically trying to get the cup out.
I decided to cut the sides of the cup so that there would be more grabbing room. At this point I had two pairs of pliers inside the garbage disposal when all of a sudden—POP!!!
The cup shot out, missed my face by a few inches, and sprayed me with the few drops of water left in the cup.
"Houston, we have a problem!" OK. It's not quite that bad, but completely in the realm of "difficult to deal with".
I flipped out my handy dandy Leatherman tool and waded into the fray. I informed Mom of the goings on (after about five minutes of trying to get this thing out) and she got another pair of pliers out.
Fifteen to twenty minutes later (probably it wasn't really that long), Mom had to go and help one of my siblings with something else; this left me frantically trying to get the cup out.
I decided to cut the sides of the cup so that there would be more grabbing room. At this point I had two pairs of pliers inside the garbage disposal when all of a sudden—POP!!!
The cup shot out, missed my face by a few inches, and sprayed me with the few drops of water left in the cup.
Such are the adventures of a home-educated young man.
7 comments:
Thank you for sharing. I have had similar experiences only with a wheat bucket, well the lid actually. :)
We recently had a similar experience with a tupperware cup one of my little ones had tossed in the sink as I was draining hot dish water down the drain. The cup stuck fast and it took mom, dad and two pliers to pry it out of there. The cup was ruined and had to be pitched. Glad to know we're not the only ones to have such incidents with those disposals. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Victoria
Funny, Benjamin! And I think I catch a hint of Ballantyne's contagious writing style in your post as well!
Being the dish washer as well, similar situations have risen with me too, but not with that exciting ending! :) Glad to hear that the cup did not win. It is interesting that the Serven guys washes dishes. Good for you, ladies! :)
Benjamin, this is hilarious!! I have to say your persistence is admirable. Proof once more that the ONLY difference between success and failure is having one more go..... please be encouraged to recount other of your adventures. I particularly enjoyed the way you spoke of that lump of plastic as though it was a pesky critter bent on besting you!! I think that's part of what made it so funny. I could almost picture that thing, hiding in the garbage grinder, smirking as your efforts were foiled.....
You have a hilarious since of humor, Benjamin! :-) Things like that have happened to me SEVERAL times. LOL. ;P
The story is very funny... thank you for sharing it!!
Have a blessed day,
Johanna
Hey, I have the chore of doing the morning dishes too!!!
~Johanna
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