Dishwasher Dilemma

My dear readers, a funny story is about to revealed to you. But with every story, there needs to be a foreshadow story before hand. So here it goes.

I live with three other girls in my apartment, Jenny, Kara, and Sandra (names changed for privacy). When the three of us first moved in, there was a leak in our sink and and destroyed many rolls of paper towels and got into Jenny's powder dishwasher soap box, making a good part of the soap particle to adhere to each other, making a hard chunk at the bottom of the box. So, we've been living off of Kara's liquid soap for a very long time (it's one of those massive ones that you get from Costco). Well, that finally ran out. It was Sandra's turn to do the dishes, which she faithfully does every time her day comes about.

I was talking to Jenny when all of the sudden she screamed, "Ah!" she pointed her finger towards the dishwasher, "Look!", I turned around, thinking that it was a spider. At first I didn't notice it, but then I saw the dishwasher was oozing a steady stream of bubbles. Almost simultaneously, Jenny and I hollered, "Sandra!! How much soap did you put in the dishwasher?" Jenny quickly ran and turned the dishwasher off, Sandra came out, confused at the big puddle of bubbles underneath the dishwasher. She was confused because she had only filled one cup in the dishwasher like we always do. We asked her what soap she used and she said, "Well, I didn't see the normal soap so I used this kind." She revealed to us, Palmolive liquid dish soap.

Jenny and I start laughing and trying to find ways to catch the soap so that it no longer spreads across the floor, we also explained to Sandra that the liquid soap is not the same as dishwasher soap and shouldn't be used as such. Well, I think we sufficiently embarrassed her out of her mind, and she just kept saying, "I will never do that again". We start a rotation of three pans to collect the ever growing amounts of soap and made a secure dam of towels around the area so that any water that would or has made its presence of the floor, would be soaked up. There were so many bubbles coming out that it was a chore just trying to make sure that the pans did not over flow.

Well, here are pictures from this little adventure.