'The boobytrapped door was not level': Clever son complies with dad's request, creating an ambush after Tetrising an entire case of beer bottles inside the mini fridge

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    Make this pack of beers fit in that fridge (they don't fit...)
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    We were going camping 40 years ago. We had a pop up trailer with a built in mini fridge with a sink and cook top. My dad said, "put these beers in the fridge."
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    I took the beers. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was a 12 pack of long neck glass bottles. I opened the fridge and put the beers in. They didn't all fit. I put them
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    all upright. I guaranteed that the door could close and that none would fall out when you opened the fridge. There were some in the door where condiments go. It was pretty full. I reported back.
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    They were angry when they heard that they didn't all fit. They commanded that I go back and put ALL the beers in the fridge and not to come back until that was done.
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    Could the beers be on their side with the fridge door still closing and I could stack them up? No. Could I put beers that are upside down with the beers that are right side up? It
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    wasn't stable. I worked at it for a while since I didn't have a time limit. I like geometry. I'm good at math. I like puzzles. Still, it could not be done. I was satisfied that
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    volume of the beer challenged the volume of the fridge and that there were possible alternative unstable stacking methods that could get some more bottles in
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    there, but woe to anyone who opened the fridge because the cascade of beers would be impressive. Feeling confident I reported back that the request could not be done.
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    They were enraged. It strikes my adult self that I should have just reported victory and hid the other beers somewhere else in the camper until there was room in the fridge. Maybe
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    I should have drank the ones that didn't fit... I was young though. Didn't think of that. They were so mad. I had to go back and fit them ALL in the fridge.
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    Okay then. I went for an unstable arrangement of beers and worked at it for sometime until I could just slam the door closed in time to form a seal.
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    Eventually they opened the boobytrapped door. The camper was not level. As the door opened the beers all rolled out of the fridge in a rush for the open door of the camper like salmon jumping
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    free when the dam is released, but they crashed in pools of broken glass and beer on rocks. My dad caught a few like an Alaskan bear on the river. He got like two in each mitt.
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    I expected to be yelled at again, but no. Strangely the worst of it was reporting the news that they didn't fit and not the aftermath of the great beer migration.
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    RJack151 2 days ago I thought you were going to dump the beer into a container that fit in the fridge, resulting in flat beer when they went to drink it.
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    eighty_more_or_less 2 days ago didn't know that Alaskan beer were found in the river? Or is that the result of havig too many bears? 87 Reply Share AppropriateRip9996 OP. 2 days ago You have to keep them cold somehow.
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    ckeilah 2 days ago I was so hoping that the "solution" would be to turn the icebox on its side, crack open every bottle, and pour ALL the beer into the box!
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    East-Jacket-6687 2 days ago lol you offer the extra beers to the people outside. Oh do you want one. then magically they fit.
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    Lucy_Lastic 1 day ago lol @ great beer migration - it would have been such an awesome and moving sight, one not often witnessed by human eyes
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    Only Midnight4757 2 days ago They act like children should just know how to do everything that even they can't do, even if it's impossible, it's wild. Children are not servants.
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    AppropriateRip9996 OP. 1 day ago Not being believed is infuriating as a child, but I love horror movies now where the parents downplay what the kids say at their own peril.
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    espenbex 2 days ago I can just see it my self as your Father opens the fridge and try too catch the flying beers like salmons flying from bears
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    modernwunder 1 day ago Honestly the tail end of your story is making me laugh so hard. So vivid

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