1) Paint your fingernails in bed. Choose the color black.
2) Put the bottle of nail polish on your nightstand when you're done.
3) 30 minutes later, wave your hand haphazardly around (you may be watching an intense TV scene or having a conversation with your husband) and knock the bottle of black nail polish on the beige carpet.
4) Gasp when the bottle breaks and leaks on the carpet--not because you know your mark of stupidity will forever be engrained in the wall-to-wall carpet in your rental, but because that was your favorite nail polish.
5) Scrub furiously with a cloth and slosh copious amounts of rubbing alcohol that the internet itself told you to do.
6) When your husband tells you to be more careful next time, snap at him that his comment was not helpful. Duly, when your husband tells you that you're supposed to blot, not rub, snap at him that you're past the point of blotting when the entire bottle has seeped into the floor.
7) Accept defeat that you will have to have the carpets cleaned.
Alternatively, you could literally THROW the money away and save a really good bottle of polish.
2) Put the bottle of nail polish on your nightstand when you're done.
3) 30 minutes later, wave your hand haphazardly around (you may be watching an intense TV scene or having a conversation with your husband) and knock the bottle of black nail polish on the beige carpet.
4) Gasp when the bottle breaks and leaks on the carpet--not because you know your mark of stupidity will forever be engrained in the wall-to-wall carpet in your rental, but because that was your favorite nail polish.
5) Scrub furiously with a cloth and slosh copious amounts of rubbing alcohol that the internet itself told you to do.
6) When your husband tells you to be more careful next time, snap at him that his comment was not helpful. Duly, when your husband tells you that you're supposed to blot, not rub, snap at him that you're past the point of blotting when the entire bottle has seeped into the floor.
7) Accept defeat that you will have to have the carpets cleaned.
Alternatively, you could literally THROW the money away and save a really good bottle of polish.
I literally laughed out loud but then felt guilty!! You poor thing, this sounds awful! (How come I didn't hear about this before??) I'm so glad you're blogging again! :) I'm way sorry this happened - for the sake of the nail polish, of course.
ReplyDeleteokay sarah......a year and a half later stalking your blog posts. i'm sorry i'm commenting on every one but i just love every part of these! i hate that this happened but it is such a classic story!!
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