Shaving Gel

I am happy to tell you a story that did NOT happen to me. Although this sounds like something I would do, it actually happened to my friend Michelle.

Several weeks ago when I graduated with my Master's, my friends April and Michelle drove from Kearney to stay with me. They arrived Friday evening; Katie, Michelle, April and I met at our favorite Thai restaurant for dinner. Wild Ginger is outstanding food; the only problem is their consistency with mild, medium and hot. Sometimes their medium is so mild we wished we had gotten hot. Sometimes their medium is so hot we wished we had gotten mild.

The four of us ordered medium Pad Thai. The waitress warned us it was hot, but we all waved her along and said that would be fine. Well, on this particular night, she was right; the medium was HOT. It was so hot that we had to order a plate of white rice to help tame the fire in our mouths. The four of us joked that it was not going to be pretty coming out. If it's spicy going in, it's bound to be spicy coming out!

After dinner, we came back to my place to play some games and have a drink. April was the first to hit the bathroom. As she came out, she was giggling. She said that she had almost used my shaving cream as an air freshener. She had grabbed it from under the sink, looked at the bottle, saw the flowers and thought it was air freshener. Right as she was about to spray, she saw SHAVING GEL on the bottle and realized she had almost made a big mess. As April came out of the bathroom, Michelle was ready to head in. April joked, "There's some stuff under the sink if you need it." Michelle shut the door, and April told us what she had almost done. We all laughed and told Michelle we were headed upstairs.

About 10 minutes later, Michelle met us outside. By this time, we had all had a drink and had begun to wonder if Michelle was OK. "Are you OK?" Katie asked Michelle. "You were down there for a really long time."

Michelle was laughing as she told us her story. She had done her business in the bathroom, and heading April's advice, she looked under the sink and saw the same bottle April had seen. Thinking it was air freshener, Michelle grabbed the can, looked at the pretty flowers on the bottle, and then sprayed with all her might. As we all know, it wasn't air freshener at all but rather shaving gel, so as Michelle sprayed, a white rush of foam came spraying out of the bottle.

She got the toilet, the shower curtain, the wall, the sink; everything in the bathroom was covered with shaving gel. As the shaving gel game out, it turned into a thick foam and continued to expand. Michelle had made a giant mess in the bathroom. The reason it took her so long in the bathroom was because she had to clean up her mess. It took her almost 10 minutes to clean up all the shaving gel, but I must add that she did a great job because we couldn't even tell she had sprayed gel all over the bathroom.