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"You should be on CSI"
Feb. 23rd, 2009 10:18 amUh, no thanks. Definitely, no.
Colleague asked me this morning to look at something in the men's rest room. She thought maybe it was antifreeze spilled on the floor.
Certainly it was a runny pool of something very green. I wondered if the liquid soap at the sink was green, but no, it's clear.
"My best guess," I offered, "is that it's something like Green River or else Kool-Aid."
Then we noticed that the trickle was either leading to or from the trash basket under the paper towels. I looked inside. Sure enough, junk food wrappers. When pushed aside, there was a Green River bottle upside down in the bottom.
"See how good I am?" I laughed.
"Yeah! You should be on CSI," she said.
[Note for those not familiar with midwestern oddities: Green River is a locally produced soda fountain drink from the early 20th century that is still available in bottles as a carbonated soda. It's flavored with vanilla and natural lime, I think, and is the color of the fluorescein salts used to track leaks in plumbing and sewers. If it doesn't light up under ultraviolet, it should.]
Colleague asked me this morning to look at something in the men's rest room. She thought maybe it was antifreeze spilled on the floor.
Certainly it was a runny pool of something very green. I wondered if the liquid soap at the sink was green, but no, it's clear.
"My best guess," I offered, "is that it's something like Green River or else Kool-Aid."
Then we noticed that the trickle was either leading to or from the trash basket under the paper towels. I looked inside. Sure enough, junk food wrappers. When pushed aside, there was a Green River bottle upside down in the bottom.
"See how good I am?" I laughed.
"Yeah! You should be on CSI," she said.
[Note for those not familiar with midwestern oddities: Green River is a locally produced soda fountain drink from the early 20th century that is still available in bottles as a carbonated soda. It's flavored with vanilla and natural lime, I think, and is the color of the fluorescein salts used to track leaks in plumbing and sewers. If it doesn't light up under ultraviolet, it should.]
