Dilemna #24: Your car is running on fumes and your dog has been home alone with a problematic bowel since 8:15am. Do you stop for gas or do you get the heck home and hope your dog is the only item that greets you when you walk in?
My Solution: Go home. Let the dog out. Use the lawnmower gas can to add a few extra fumes to the tank.
All worked according to plan except for the gasoline I spilled down my hand trying to get gas from the can to my car. It looks so much easier in the movies.
Dilemna #25: You have Gas Can Hand and you're about to start cooking dinner.
My Solution: Google "how to get gasoline off hands" and figure out how to do just that.
You would be surprised (or perhaps you wouldn't) at the things people suggest to accomplish this. Top recommendations involved rubbing one of the following household items on your hands: Lemon, milk, stainless steel, potato, orange juice, toothpaste (Crest apparently is the best for this purpose, though it is not marketed for such), and mustard.
Mustard.
They didn't specify which variety of mustard works best (we have six in the fridge), but I was drawn to this suggestion first and, guess what? It worked!
Now that was truly amazing.
Now I'm off to make dinner.
3 comments:
I'm curious about the "rubbing stainless steel ON your hand" method. Sounds painful. All I can think of are knives. Glad you opted for the mustard.
Your helpful hints are very relevant to my life, since my hubby comes home from work every day covered in gasoline. Now I can stop buying the expensive hand cleaner and just leave a bottle of French's Classic Yellow on the counter.
Girls: you have both painted very funny and very different mental pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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