There may be no tougher game in growing up than choosing a roommate. Sometimes you get lucky and end up with a lifelong friend, but sometimes you end up practically sharing the same space with a ghost. But sometimes, you get a roommate whose only purpose in life is to test your patience and stretch your character in as many ways as possible. It's these people who cause a flurry of musings about emotional labor on their Instagram pages every time you ask them to do the dishes.
But from now on, it's entirely possible that we'll be a little more lenient with them and give them a little hazard pay to keep their dishes sparkling clean. Tick tock's @herlin255 unwittingly exposed the kitchen sink as the meanest, most unthinkable battleground.
It's unclear if the woman in the video above is the owner of the account, but we can safely say she's avoided dishwashing duty for the time being. As she calmly scrubs and washes off the remains of food from the utensils, the kitchen collapses into a complete fireball, sending everything around it flying, dislodging a cupboard or two, and causing the poor woman to fall over herself before running away in terror. The utter cartoonishness of this incident is evident even if no one appears to be injured.
The situation was realised much quicker than one might expect. The general, but not unanimous, opinion was that the gas bottle under the sink had had enough of whatever it was that it was dealing with at the time, and rather than express its emotions in a more nourishing way, it stifled them to the point where mass destruction was inevitable.
Either way, it was an unusual cause. When it comes to kitchen fires (or, in this case, explosions), the most common elements in such recipes include high temperatures during cooking, large amounts of flammable materials or incompatible cooking oils, and equipment with severe internal damage that subsequently causes an electrical fire when overpressurized.
In fact, when it comes to orchestrating kitchen terrorism, these three guys are some of the best in the business, and now they've found a rival in the less durable gas bottle. Maybe cooking over an open fire and washing dishes in a stream, camping style, is better for everyone. Better to fight wolves than bombs.
