stupid clatterbane tricks – Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0

“Maybe you shouldn’t be cooking right now” fail earlier:

Take a container of leftover ranch dip out of the fridge, to adjust and turn into quick salad dressing. Add a little mayo, milk, and extra seasonings.

Taste for seasoning–and only then realize that you grabbed the leftover Swedish meatball gravy instead 😨

An unusual salad dressing flavor, that’s for sure.

They didn’t even look alike, other than being thickish pale dairy-containing things in the same type of plastic tub. The texture wasn’t very similar beyond that. Ranch dip should usually not be brownish. Did I have the mental wherewithal to notice this beyond, “hmm, this is thinner than expected”? Evidently not so much.

(It didn’t take long to get the right thing out, and do it much closer to right. But the whole thing wasn’t a complication I needed, anyway 🙄)

Unintentional Slapstick Episode #6853492:

Manage a pratfall straight into a plate of wet cat food, nearly crushing my poor floor-sitting partner in the process–while watching this on my phone 😁

Definitely time for some sleep.

I just pulled a brilliant move, and grabbed the wrong tube of goop to smear on that skin rash. Antiseptic cream instead of cortisone, and just about noticed “hey, this doesn’t smell right” before it started stinging like hell. (Yay, chlorhexidine on broken skin. And they sell the crap here for cuts and scrapes 😨)

Got it washed off, no real harm just aggravation. But, if there was any lingering doubt that I’m totally done for the day? Not after that little dumbass episode.

Inertia level: it just took over an hour to get myself into the bedroom for a long-sleeved shirt I’d left in there ⛄

clatterbane:

Tip: If you ever get a jar of cooking sauce that also comes with a little dry spice container like that on top?

DO NOT try to pry the plastic thing off the lid before you have the jar opened safely.

Maybe that shouldn’t need to be said, but… 😩

The design there really did not help matters, though.

On the plus side, that thing is really unlikely to come off by accident before a customer takes it home. Because it really does take some concerted prying with a butter knife or similar.

(Then the thick plastic film holding the spices in needed a sharp knife to get it open. Really, really not going to fall out on its own…)

Tip: If you ever get a jar of cooking sauce that also comes with a little dry spice container like that on top?

DO NOT try to pry the plastic thing off the lid before you have the jar opened safely.

Maybe that shouldn’t need to be said, but… 😩