#30- Never put a carbonated drink
into one of those refillable, squeezable Gatorade bottles.
There are times in life when we must
learn a lesson the hard way. This is one of them. Learn from my mistakes.
I was up late on a Thursday night working
on a paper and it was almost four o’clock when I finished and went to bed. I
woke up and went to my classes and then started to pack because I was going
home for the weekend. I was playing a song I wrote for a concert at my church. So
I grabbed my Gatorade bottle (again the refillable, squeezable kind) and went
to wait for the bus that would take me to the train station. While I was
waiting I realized that my bottle was empty, and I was starting to get a bit
drowsy (three hours of sleep does that to you). So I did what a good portion of
college students would do.
I went to the café and filled it up
with mountain dew.
No big deal right? Wrong. I went
outside just as the bus arrived, hopped on, and found a seat. I put the
mountain dew between my legs. Then I felt a spray on my face. The bottle just
sprayed all over me.
Science lesson: Gatorade bottles
spray by pressure. When you squeeze it, the pressure becomes too much and it
sprays. However, mountain dew is carbonated. The air is released and the pressure steadily builds until you’re wearing your mountain dew.
This continued for the 15 minute bus
ride and the 90 minute train ride, spraying me until I consumed all of it.
Moral: There is always an application
of science readily available if you look close enough.
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