Mom Has Lapse In Judgment, Buys Children Tons Of Mentos And Coke, Chaos Ensues

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mattstaff
Jun 9, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

Mom's heart was in the right place. The only problem is that she might've been blinded by the love she clearly has for her children. Because, dude, Coke and Mentos is a literal recipe for disaster. And then you throw in a bunch of hyperactive kids? Oh, the end times have arrived. Hopefully mom was able to get the situation under control, and is able to impart her hard-earned wisdom upon anyone other parents in her social circle that (somehow) might not know better. 

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    Font - Font - TIFU by buying my kids a BUNCH OF MENTOS M Well, here I am again, posting another TIFU. I wonder if people with children are more likely to post these? PS This is a long one, but hopefully worth the read! My kids recently discovered the whole "mentos + Coke = super cool explosion" equation, thanks to me and my big mouth. They got super excited to try it, so I agreed to go to the store and buy the ingredients for the "experiment".
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    Font - We start off with a conservative amount: one roll of mentos and one bottle of Diet Coke. We get home and gather around to witness the super cool explosion! Except it was not super cool, and honestly it was barely an explosion. I'm not sure what we did wrong, but the whole thing was very underwhelming. The children were all disappointed and quite vocal about it. "That sucked, mom!"
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    Font - In my infinite wisdom, I decide the problem was, obviously, NOT ENOUGH INGREDIENTS. We needed to buy a mentos. So I head back to the store, and spend a stupid amount of money on all this junk. I figure if we put a bunch of mentos in each bottle, we will get a bigger explosion, so I got at least 15 of those packs of mentos rolls. In my defense, that kind of stuff is always on some crazy "buy two get seven free" sale, so we can blame the store at least a little bit. ton of Coke, all differe
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    Font - We try everything, many different combinations, and pretty much all of them fizzle a little bit and then just die. What the !I am frustrated and angry. The kids are disappointed, but resilient. I go inside to sulk and let the kids shake up the bottles and spray each other with Coke. The Coke was an inconvenient, sticky mess and I had to spend a while hosing it off the fence, side of the house, the kids, etc.
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    Font - But then the kids decided to play with all 500 of the extra mentos, and those ruined my life. mints have Once they ran out of Coke, they decided to take the mentos into the house and play with them. I figured they couldn't do much with them, and would eventually get bored. Clearly, I underestimated both their creativity and capacity for destruction. The children created sick games to play when I wasn't looking, like: "hide a bunch of mentos in each of the lighting fixtures",
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    Font - "stick the mentos under all the rugs so people keep stepping on them when they're walking around", and "just other until they're all lost behind and inside of the furniture" throw them across the room at each I don't know how I missed the "see how many mentos you can chew up and stick in your sisters' hair" game, but I sure had to deal with the fallout afterward. So now l'm in Mentos every article of clothing, and the bottoms of everyone's shoes. They are ground into the floor and carpets
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    Font - Almost every time I open a door, or a cabinet, or a drawer, I find a mento sitting there. I walk around the house gingerly, because l'm so sick of scraping minty gum off the carpet/ground/bottoms of my shoes. They are following me, torturing me, driving me insane. These things are melting into the furniture and being puked up by the pets and lounging in the toilet. I'm a broken woman. No matter what I do, there will always be More Mentos. tl;dr Thought I would be a "fun mom" and got my ki
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    Font - I DID USE DIET COKE AND REGULAR MENTOS THE FIRST TIME, PEOPLE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE SUGGESTIONS! There was some other reason it did not work. And there's no use telling me what to do now, because l'll die before I do this again with my kids! 1.4k 125 1, Share
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