Friday, March 9, 2012

Making Chocolate Milk

I am not sure how everyone makes chocolate milk, but here in my house, we start with a tall glass of cold milk (skim thank you very much) and a healthy amount of syrup squirted in said glass.  Now, syrup may end up drizzled on the counters, or the side of the glass, and I could see how it could get on your fingers and make your spoon a sticky mess.

I don't see how it sprayed in an arching splatter that stretched from the ceiling of one wall, down over coats and purses, across the floor (although my son cleaned that up), up the opposite wall, on the clean dishes drying in the dish drainer, into every shelf of dishes (man, I really wish I had cupboard doors right now) and almost to the ceiling again.

I will admit when I first saw the mess I was pretty mad.  Coming home from work to find an unusual mess is not much fun!  But 24 hours gives some perspective and 48 hours gives it a bit of humor and now I can step back and shake my head and chuckle and see how this will make a very funny story and wonder what goes through their heads when they do something like that....

My husband called it.  He said if the bottle of syrup was almost empty, the resulting mess was probably someone trying to shake the last bit out.

He was right.

I attribute his rightness to him being a boy and having a better understanding of how a teenage boy operates!

5 comments:

  1. Yours is now officially one of my favorite blogs to read. Thank you for this post, thank you for the 24-48 hour perspective, and thanks for helping me laugh today. I needed that.

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    1. Thank you! It's always satisfying to help make a day funnier!

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  2. Oh my! My sister in law had a similar moment some years ago when she found her 3ish year old son pouring chocolate syrup on his 18 mos old sister, on the carpet in the living room. She started freaking out, then grabbed the video camera instead.

    So just to be clear, the only part of this mess that was cleaned up before you got home was the floor? Did he/they think you were just not going to notice the rest? ;-)

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    1. I think my son cleaned up all of his friend's mess that he could see. It was almost like it was magic syrup, after I thought we'd got it all, there it was in a different corner!

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  3. We never had this exact mess, but I can certainly identify with the "unusual" messes left behind by teenage boys.

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