J. Alex Lang (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jalexlang) wrote,@ 2006-01-07 10:57:00 |
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Where's my gum, dad?
And so it was last night as we all sat around relaxing in our living room. Sarah has taken to chewing gum lately, but as any 3.5 yr old will attest it rarely stays in one's mouth very long. So we scrambled to find the gum, hoping that it wasn't going to find itself lodged between sofa cushions. Not finding it we assumed Sarah had swallowed it or something.
So I resumed my browsing and email-reading, only to find... a big smear of chewing gum on the LCD display of the laptop. Shit! Now what?! I tried to scrape it off, and that succeeded only in spreading gumloveliness all over the place. Hm. My wife suggests that peanut butter can be used to get gum out of kids' hair. Seeing no other option, out comes the peanut butter. I proceeded to get my index finger oily, trying to avoid grabbing any clumps (it was chunky peanut butter, after all). I started rubbing the peanutty substance all over the LCD screen, with a bit of trepidation. Magically, I wiped the area off with some TP and found that it removed all of the gum residue! Amazing. And now my laptop smells like an ice cream shoppe, too.
And so it was last night as we all sat around relaxing in our living room. Sarah has taken to chewing gum lately, but as any 3.5 yr old will attest it rarely stays in one's mouth very long. So we scrambled to find the gum, hoping that it wasn't going to find itself lodged between sofa cushions. Not finding it we assumed Sarah had swallowed it or something.
So I resumed my browsing and email-reading, only to find... a big smear of chewing gum on the LCD display of the laptop. Shit! Now what?! I tried to scrape it off, and that succeeded only in spreading gumloveliness all over the place. Hm. My wife suggests that peanut butter can be used to get gum out of kids' hair. Seeing no other option, out comes the peanut butter. I proceeded to get my index finger oily, trying to avoid grabbing any clumps (it was chunky peanut butter, after all). I started rubbing the peanutty substance all over the LCD screen, with a bit of trepidation. Magically, I wiped the area off with some TP and found that it removed all of the gum residue! Amazing. And now my laptop smells like an ice cream shoppe, too.
