Spilled My Yeti

 

While looking forward to the Saturday Morning Session of General Conference, I’d topped off my Yeti with lots of ice and water.  This isn’t an average size Yeti, and in fact, it’s a competitor’s version of a Yeti that holds sixty-four gallons; we picked it up at the Bucky’s store in Madisonville.

Growing up in my era, folks called their vacuum cleaners, Hoovers.  It didn’t matter what company manufactured the device; Hoover was a commonly known device.  I suppose the folks at Yeti should be thrilled to have had a similar fate.

Rather than set the huge honking container on a table, we have food storage spread around the house, and so…there are three cases of canned ground beef next to the sofa.  It’s covered with a bath towel that makes it ‘invisible’, a mind game that permits us to use the living room as part of the pantry.  These cases of canned goods are placed on bath towels to keep moisture from ruining the hardwood flooring.  The cats think the top layer of bath towels are for them to sleep on, providing a strategic location for staring out the window.

General Conference started and the first speaker was Dallin H. Oaks.  I reached over to take a sip from the Yeti; but accidentally tipped it over, sending several hundred gallons of water and ice to the floor.  It’s possible the amount of water and ice has been exaggerated.  I didn’t get to pay attention to the message being shared by Elder Oaks about how much humanitarian aid was produced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We have a supply of older bath towels that are kept next to the washer and dryer room and I made a hurried dash across the house to retrieve several towels to mop up the mess.  It was easy picking up chunks of ice and placing them back into the Yeti; however, the water had spread quickly.  A local fisherman had taken up position on the shore in hopes of catching a big one.  The towels under the stacks of canned ground beef along with the towel that’s under a stack of popcorn bags had soaked up some of the water; not good.

Each of the stacks of canned goods had to be moved along with two hundred pounds of popcorn to keep the water from damaging the wood flooring.  This was accomplished and fresh towels have been placed where the others had been, canned ground beef cases stacked as they had been and the washing machine will get another load of towels.

General Conference continued and the local fisherman decided to go home since the lake dried up.