Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
Care to share your worst bottle disasters? Tumbling tragedy, display disaster, digging damage or just plain dropping it--tell and show them here. It's a serious thing to break good bottles, but I think it could be a good laugh for us all as we share what we've done.
I myself have been fortunate to have broken little. One of my S.S. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. bottles was half destroyed, though, by the man coming to quote prices on window replacement. He's walking in, coat catches and launches my bottle into the ground. No worries! It was already damaged, but the top shattered. As I started laughing, his face turned red and he kept slowly saying, "I'm sorry," over and over and over.
This morning, upon opening my curtain, I had an inspirational disaster--inspiration for this thread, lolz. You see, my window's ledge/top is too small to hold any bottles save for small ones. Upon drawing the curtain aside, a damaged Muskegon Brewery bottle-- the largest in the window-- fell down and and hit a broken ACL Michigan Maid bottle, thus launching it into my first bottle--a Citrate of Magnesia-- that blew into a large-mouthed bottle which spun into the-only-example-I've-seen of a Diekman Bottling Works, Monroe, Michigan bottle, then rebounding into an 1800s Detroit Fredrick Stearns bottle, a modern Sioux City then flies backwards, and a few other bottles are shoved past--including a copy-cat-type of 1890s sauce which then in turn rolled off the shelf and smashed into an 1800s champagne bottle that itself rolled off, thus causing a few items on that shelf to collapse onto the next shelf then rolling onto the floor as one of my paws shoots out to still try and stop the already-fallen Brewery bottle as well as catch, at first with my other, my favorite sauce bottle which I give-up on in an instant and reach for my champagne. Blessedly, the only damage was done to the broken ACL and some shells from the lake. Somehow, the Brewery bottle--which I had initially re-glued. Oh, yeah: The Root blob of mine narrowly escaped being smacked.
I myself have been fortunate to have broken little. One of my S.S. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. bottles was half destroyed, though, by the man coming to quote prices on window replacement. He's walking in, coat catches and launches my bottle into the ground. No worries! It was already damaged, but the top shattered. As I started laughing, his face turned red and he kept slowly saying, "I'm sorry," over and over and over.
This morning, upon opening my curtain, I had an inspirational disaster--inspiration for this thread, lolz. You see, my window's ledge/top is too small to hold any bottles save for small ones. Upon drawing the curtain aside, a damaged Muskegon Brewery bottle-- the largest in the window-- fell down and and hit a broken ACL Michigan Maid bottle, thus launching it into my first bottle--a Citrate of Magnesia-- that blew into a large-mouthed bottle which spun into the-only-example-I've-seen of a Diekman Bottling Works, Monroe, Michigan bottle, then rebounding into an 1800s Detroit Fredrick Stearns bottle, a modern Sioux City then flies backwards, and a few other bottles are shoved past--including a copy-cat-type of 1890s sauce which then in turn rolled off the shelf and smashed into an 1800s champagne bottle that itself rolled off, thus causing a few items on that shelf to collapse onto the next shelf then rolling onto the floor as one of my paws shoots out to still try and stop the already-fallen Brewery bottle as well as catch, at first with my other, my favorite sauce bottle which I give-up on in an instant and reach for my champagne. Blessedly, the only damage was done to the broken ACL and some shells from the lake. Somehow, the Brewery bottle--which I had initially re-glued. Oh, yeah: The Root blob of mine narrowly escaped being smacked.