a must read...soo cool!
So after my allergist appointment today (apparently I'm allergic to tomatos, shellfish, eggs, chicken, and pork? not so sure about the last 2, the other ones make sense although I've never had shellfish so it doesn't really matter), I was walking the 500 miles back to campus through the treacherous jungles of Roxbury. I finally found JP Licks at Brigham Circle so I stopped for a little refresher and to pee (I would have left that part out but it's kind of important to the story). So I ordered and asked for the bathroom key....no luck, someone broke the key off in the door a few nights before and it hadn't been fixed yet....slightly annoyed I got my milkshake and was on my way out the door when the ice cream man informed me I could find my salvation at the Stop and Shop upstairs, so up I went. As I was frantically searching for a bathroom, 2 firefighters standing in the check out line caught my eye, not because I thought they were attractive, but because of what was in their arms (no, not a puppy silly).
They were holding 5 2Liter bottles of diet coke.
Of course the first thing that popped into my head was "Haha, diet coke and mentos." Then I thought, no, these are men who routinely save our lives, they would never waste their valuable time on diet coke and mentos experiments. And I remembered that my roommate said diet coke was on sale and S&S this week. I figured they just really liked diet coke so I continued walking. But my curiosity got the best of me and after I passed the men I looked back and that's when I saw it. One of the men was holding 2 boxes of mentos. I thought it was too much of a coincidence that the only things they were buying were diet coke and mentos. I mean...I guess some people like diet coke and mentos a lot, but would anybody ever go to the store to buy just those 2 things without planning to see what happens if they are mixed?
At this point I had to stop and ask. Indeed they were planning on trying the diet coke and mentos trick. They had only heard of the "fountain," but I enlightened them. I explained to them the glory of the "diet coke rocket." I told them they were in possession of the wrong type of mentos, because, as everyone who has done such experiments knows that the rolls of mentos are much better. I explained the steps of what they needed to do, and, being "boys" they wanted to witness the kind of explosion you can only get from the "diet coke rocket." So they got out of line and we went in search of the rolls of mentos in the candy aisle.
Having still not reached my original goal, I wished them luck and continued on my quest. On my way out of the store I ran into the men again and asked which station they were from. As luck would have it, they were heading back to the fire station on edge campus, so I got a ride....in the truck! In exchange for the ride I had to supervise their experiments. Being that I was already almost 3 hours late for work (thanks to the allergist taking a lunch break right at my appointment time...makes you wonder why they even bothered to set up an appointment), I figured it couldn't hurt to hang out with them for a little while, they did save me time by driving me back to the station. So I supervised. We weren't able to get the same results Mike and I got a few weekends ago, but it was still fun. Most of the time they couldn't get the cap back on before the mentos worked their magic, and it didn't help that none of them wanted to get diet coke on them. What a random but fun day...
If anyone is interested and hasn't viewed our diet coke rocket videos yet...here's the link to my youtube profile...enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/ralcony
In my opinion, #1 was the best rocket, I wasn't ready for it to go that far so it kinda went out of view. #4 the bottle exploded instead of the cap shooting off.
They were holding 5 2Liter bottles of diet coke.
Of course the first thing that popped into my head was "Haha, diet coke and mentos." Then I thought, no, these are men who routinely save our lives, they would never waste their valuable time on diet coke and mentos experiments. And I remembered that my roommate said diet coke was on sale and S&S this week. I figured they just really liked diet coke so I continued walking. But my curiosity got the best of me and after I passed the men I looked back and that's when I saw it. One of the men was holding 2 boxes of mentos. I thought it was too much of a coincidence that the only things they were buying were diet coke and mentos. I mean...I guess some people like diet coke and mentos a lot, but would anybody ever go to the store to buy just those 2 things without planning to see what happens if they are mixed?
At this point I had to stop and ask. Indeed they were planning on trying the diet coke and mentos trick. They had only heard of the "fountain," but I enlightened them. I explained to them the glory of the "diet coke rocket." I told them they were in possession of the wrong type of mentos, because, as everyone who has done such experiments knows that the rolls of mentos are much better. I explained the steps of what they needed to do, and, being "boys" they wanted to witness the kind of explosion you can only get from the "diet coke rocket." So they got out of line and we went in search of the rolls of mentos in the candy aisle.
Having still not reached my original goal, I wished them luck and continued on my quest. On my way out of the store I ran into the men again and asked which station they were from. As luck would have it, they were heading back to the fire station on edge campus, so I got a ride....in the truck! In exchange for the ride I had to supervise their experiments. Being that I was already almost 3 hours late for work (thanks to the allergist taking a lunch break right at my appointment time...makes you wonder why they even bothered to set up an appointment), I figured it couldn't hurt to hang out with them for a little while, they did save me time by driving me back to the station. So I supervised. We weren't able to get the same results Mike and I got a few weekends ago, but it was still fun. Most of the time they couldn't get the cap back on before the mentos worked their magic, and it didn't help that none of them wanted to get diet coke on them. What a random but fun day...
If anyone is interested and hasn't viewed our diet coke rocket videos yet...here's the link to my youtube profile...enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/ralcony
In my opinion, #1 was the best rocket, I wasn't ready for it to go that far so it kinda went out of view. #4 the bottle exploded instead of the cap shooting off.