Dumb, dumb, dumb...

[nofearengineer]

When I cleaned up my desk at work last Friday, I took my last can of soda home with me.

I had one of those little foam can cozy things I had gotten at a product rep meeting earlier in the week, so just out of habit, I put the can of soda in it so it wouldn't roll around and bang into stuff.

I forgot about it when I got home.

When I got into my truck on Saturday to go watch the UFC fight, of course it was really hot inside. Still not a problem though.

The problem arose when I turned the A/C on full blast. Five minutes into my drive, the can exploded. Now when I say exploded, I mean just that. There was a loud boom. The top of the can flew off and hit me in the side, hard enough to hurt. It nearly made me wreck.

The entire interior of my beautiful truck, as well as I, was covered in soda. I can only be thankful that it was diet lemonade soda. No sugar, and no dark color. It should clean up pretty well after a couple sessions with my mini wet vac.

I figure what happened was purely physics. Leaving it in a hot car wasn't the real problem. The insulated can holder kept the main part of the can hot, but the A/C got the top of the can cold. The resulting temperature difference just tore the top off the can.

I knew I should have just stuck to my usual plastic 2-liters. But I can only imagine what an exploding 2-liter bottle would do to the inside of a vehicle.

Perhaps I will never leave anything in there again.