Pissed off

[unixronin]

Polypropylene microfiber tablecloths are very good. They feel much like linen, and water-based spills just roll off them.  Within reason.

However, that only counts for just so much when a six-year-old knocks over her lidless water bottle and dumps something in the vicinity of a quart of water in a rolling wave across the table.  There was enough standing water on the table that after mopping it up with paper shop towels failed, we vacuumed it up with the carpet steam-vac.

Yes, my pants are wet.  And the magazine I was reading is soaked.  I didn't even get to finish my supper.

Comments

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

i thought that counted as a point against the tablecloths of such construction. Absorb the mess and prevent it from travelling further.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, for normal small spills, the spill beads up without wetting the cloth, so you just blot up the spill and it's like it never happened.

This was not "normal".

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

It is for six year olds.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I realize you have had more 6 year olds than we have, but this is not normal for our 6 year olds.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not that particular experience. And catastrophic fail's of coordination and/or presence are rare overall, but every K-2 student class I have ever taught has had some sort of incident over an eight week Mad Science course. Most are [thankfully] smaller, but they could easily have been larger. A clear water spill is something to be thankful for.

[vetpsychwars.livejournal.com]

"Yes, my pants are wet."

It startled you so much you wet your pants? That's quite a spill.