Sigh...

OK. New rule at Lagniappe's Lair. It goes along with the existing rule against loaded guns or magazines in the gun room. This one is: No canned beer in the refrigerator.

Why do I add this new rule, you ask? It's simple. As one who only drinks bottled beer and looks down on the purchasers of canned beer as the equivalent of wimps, girlymen and the French, I just don't keep any in my fridge.

Well I didn't until some nice people (spa`siba) gave me a case of Labatt's in cans for the holidays. Now the thought was nice and the beer good (American beer in cans gets used for target practice) so I've been enjoying them and am down to the last few.

However, the problem arose when one of those beer cans infiltrated the shelf containing the Slim-Fast canned meal substitutes that I drink when working out. (Yeah, I know...Slim-fast and beer. Great combination. But it works for me.)

I opened the fridge about an hour ago to grab a Slim-Fast, and since I'm not used to other canned beverages in the fridge, I simply grabbed the first one my hand hit, without looking at it.

Now this would not be a problem save for the differing instructions regarding the opening and consumption of said beverages. What does it say on the Slim-Fast cans? That's right: SHAKE WELL BEFORE OPENING.

You see where I'm going with this, don't you? Steve Wonder coulda seen this coming.

So without looking at the can in hand, I shake it hard a few times them pop the top. FOOOOSH! Beer all over me and the kitchen. Lagniappe is looking at me as if to say "What the hell are you doing now?"

So we have a beer wasted and I had to clean the kitchen and change clothes so as not to smell like beer on my drive to the gym. And a new rule against canned beer in the refrigerator...as soon as the rest of this case is gone.



Lagniappe says: "No ammo in here, and no canned beer in the refrigerator!'