I hate when that happens.

Pack72

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Did you ever have a pull tab break when you were trying to open a can? This happened to me when I was in high school. The can in question was a beer I had put in the freezer at a friend’s lake house, and forgotten. The ring broke, but only after tearing a tiny hole in the top of the can, from which a stream of beer shot all the way to the ceiling. Not wanting to damage my friend’s ceiling (especially since it was actually his older brother’s place and technically we didn’t have permission to be there) I did the only thing I could think to do: aim the Budweiser geyser into my mouth, and swallow as quickly as I could. It didn’t work.
 
We "invested" in a 4-pack of Watney's Ale in HS, back when imports were the only alternative to MegaMacro,Inc. beer. We put it in my buddy's freezer, drank 3 of them before we got distracted & left the house.

The next day he called and said "Come over. You gotta see this!" Absolutely would not tell me what it was about, said I had to see it.

The Watney's we'd forgotten had frozen solid, of course, but the cap hadn't let loose. The bottle fractured, and, as the beer/ice expanded, the glass maintained its shape but opened up in between each piece of glass, separating them by about 1/8" all around. We learned about the crystalline structure that day.

Beer = science!
 
@Pack72, Why the flashback?
I saw a post on pet peeves, one of which was having the pull tab break when you're trying to open a can. After a minute or two I recognized the rusty squeaking noise as some long dormant brain cells trying to get back into action, and I remembered this incident. I decided to post it before I forgot again.
 
I saw a post on pet peeves, one of which was having the pull tab break when you're trying to open a can. After a minute or two I recognized the rusty squeaking noise as some long dormant brain cells trying to get back into action, and I remembered this incident. I decided to post it before I forgot again.
Forgot what again?



;)
 
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