Failed Home Experiments

[midnightblooms]

So I walk into my house two nights ago and am greeted at the door by the Kiddos and the most horrible disgusting smell EVER. When I asked about the foul odor permeating everything in my home, Thing 2 (formerly known as the responsible one) starts this tale, "Oh, yeah. My shoe polish had cracked and crumbled, and 1st Sergeant (Thing 2's in JROTC) said if we heated it up, it would melt back together. So I put the tin in a skillet on the stove. Only it sort of overflowed and well..." Then he hands me the skillet.

sigh. So I'm now minus a skillet (it was a nice one too, darnit) and my house still reeks of melted shoe polish. And the Kiddos have strict instructions to CALL ME FIRST.