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Or more accurately, dump coffee grinds on me?

The other day, I opened the freezer to get some ice cream and knocked over a jar of instant coffee. Someone (not me: I don't drink coffee) hadn't replaced the lid properly, and I spilled coffee all over the floor. Luckily, it was dry and easy to clean up (though my mother STILL hasn't gotten the hard floor attachment to the vacuum repaired!)

Today, Mom dropped a glass on the kitchen floor. It was a wineglass, and shattered into lots of very sharp shards. Unbeknownst to me, she swept them up and put them in the kitchen garbage.

Tonight I went to dump the garbage. When I pulled the bag out of the can, the glass shards ripped the bag (It was a regular kitchen bag, not an extra strength one). At the bottom of the bag were not one, but 2 filters full of used coffee grinds, which promptly got all over our just-scrubbed kitchen floor. Wet, disgusting coffee grinds--which can't be vacuumed up (I know this from experience). So I had to transfer the ripped bag to a new, heavy duty one (carefully), rinse out the bin, then get on my hands and knees to clean the floor. :-(