It Shook the Apartment!

I was brushing my teeth when I heard an explosion of uncanny proportions that shook my apartment!

My first thought was that a piece of furniture had somehow collapsed and crashed onto the floor, taking all kinds of stuff with it. But a quick inspection of the furniture revealed nothing amiss.

My next thought was: Glasses, plates etc? Somehow shaken by a mild tremor or earthquake I'd been oblivious to? But checking my kitchen, again, I discovered nothing.

I tried to reproduce the sound in my mind. It was definitely loud -- really loud. And it had come from inside my apartment, no doubt about it.

Well ... several hours later I innocently opened my fridge and noticed a strange smell. Not an unpleasant one, but rather sweet. I cautiously sniffed the source to my freezer, opened the door of the freezer ... and there it was. Literally, in chunks and scattered debris, all over (sides, top, drawers, everywhere): the frozen, exploded remnants of an energy drink I'd put inside the freezer for extra cooling the night before and had completely forgotten about.

Those are the risks, my friends, of liking your drinks super-chilled. It took about fifteen minutes to clean up the mess. The explosion made a remarkably neat shear in the energy drink's metallic casing, so I kept it.