So I have an utterly, utterly filthy plastic cup that I've never washed (building up immunity) sitting on my desk. It's so filthy that no matter what I put into it (usually tea, occasionally watery hot chocolate) it all tastes the same.
One of the English teachers I work with took pity on me and washed it out. Evidently their cleaning liquids were not up to the task, so instead of giving up and telling me to stop being a bridge troll he took the nuclear option. He cleaned it with bleach.
The nuclear analogy is perfect for a number of reasons. Firstly, it worked. The cup is now white. Whether it's white because the filth has been whitened, or washed away, we will never know.
Secondly, it made a point about my personal cleanliness habits that I will not soon forget.
Thirdly, the area which has been bleached is no longer fit for consumables. I can no longer drink from that cup. IT REEKS OF BLEACH. No matter how many times I wash it out, it won't stop smelling. I was only away from that goddamned cup for an hour so it can't have been stewing for more than fifty nine minutes, and yet the poison is ingrained. There is no way it's ever coming out of that damned cup, never ever, ever.
It's a shame because it took me the best part of four years to buy a cup to drink things at work (I only got it because I needed one for the hospital and it happened to be in my bag when I went to work the next week) and I will never remember to buy another one.
And what else is a cup useful for, other than cup stuff? The cup has been destroyed.
It's also a shame because he's a really nice guy and I don't think he meant to utterly destroy my personal property - he only meant to slyly tell me that my colleagues think I'm a pig (I don't have the heart to tell him I don't give a rats ass) and that I should clean my stuff.
Anyway, it is said that we should learn something every day. Today I learned that if you BLEACH a receptacle for FOODSTUFFS (drinkstuffs?) you are substantially reducing the ability of that thing to carry the item(s)/thing(s) it was designed to carry.
P.S. If you're going to try to murder someone who isn't anosmic, bleach is a terrible choice.
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