Today's Disaster...:-(

[pastafreak]

Prepping lunch at work today...making a GIANT tray of corn beef hash. My corned beef and potatoes were cubed and I was about to put in some lightly sweated onions...
...and then time stood still as that giant tray tipped over,and 99% of lunch for 25 landed on the floor. Oh how I wanted to turn the clock back...and the whole accident was witnessed by several clients.
My Monday had been going well until then....

[NoMercy]

You poor thing. It can be mortising when something like that happens.

Two years ago I made a beautiful trifle and took it to work and stuck it in the fridge. My colleague opened the fridge door and the trifle came flying out and smashed all over the floor. I felt really sorry for her because I could tell she was cringing with embarrassment. :(

[horselady]

I was following a girl down the stairs on the station, she was taking a beautiful cake to her office in one of those plastic cake carriers where you carry it by the handle on the top, but you really should make sure the clips around the sides are very firmly closed- - - -oh dear.

[EDDIE51]

^ At least not near as bad as the incident in France a few days back.
Someone was carrying a birthday cake with lighted candles down a staircase and dropped it. The candles set the place on fire and killed 19 people .

[Old_Geezer]

I heard of that story. Amazed that in these days of fire safety and flame resistant materials a dropped birthday cake would have such a dramatic effect.

I'm unsure what witnesses and open kitchens do with anything. Either an establishment is fit to serve food and don't pretend it's alright to scrape food from a floor and serve it to unsuspecting diners or it's not fit to be in the food industry and instead make ludicrous excuses for unforgivable abuse of diners.

[ethandron]

I feel your pain Pasta.
I once turned the tap on to fill the large hot water urn in a kitchen I worked in, got distracted dealing with something else, then went off for a ten minute tea break with the other kitchen staff. We came back to a kitchen floor under an inch of water.
Moral, never take your hand of the tap!

[jambutty]

What a waste throwing it all in the bin when it could have fed the dogs.

[pastafreak]

O_G...I do hope you don't seriously think anyone, in any kitchen,would serve food that had been scraped up off the floor...whether witnessed by clients/patrons/diners or not.

[pastafreak]

NOM....I do hope she wasn't covered in trifle!
ethandron...I, and some of my colleagues, have all experienced mini floods...whether from the hot water boiler...OR there was the time the hose connecting the tap to the potato rumbler came undone when I'd left the room for a few minutes. Water spouting every where!

[zebo]

We had two teachers making the interval tea at a school production, I hesitate to say they were mean but they shared a tea bag at break time. They were also very full of themselves, making sure everyone knew they were there, that they were seen by the special guests. However what really had us in hysterics was when they were filling the urn but hadn't closed the tap, water all over the floor and them.

[Old_Geezer]

I would seriously hope not but we've had mention of that disgusting American five second excuse. And I know I've seen it apparently seriously debated on other forums elsewhere. It's no longer possible to be confident regarding trusting what folk are willing to do these days. One of the things that makes me feel sad at the world although I suspect someone will point out that there are worse things going on.