OK, so perhaps this is common knowledge, but it was not common to me. Or at least had never occurred to me. Not, that is, until yesterday afternoon, when I got in my car, turned on the heater to “high,” and very quickly and dramatically learned that soda cans left in freezing-cold vehicles overnight and then rapidly reheated?
Will explode.
Or possibly create a series of explosions, if what you left in your car was not, say, a single soda can, but rather an entire carton of them.
And when this series of explosions occurs, it will sound like someone is trying to assassinate you from your backseat, and you will lose your goddamned mind. And scream like…well, like someone is trying to assassinate you from your backseat.
And then your car will smell like soda. A lot. It will even smell like soda after you have taken it to the car wash and watched the ordinarily very nice attendant guy laugh at you while you explained what happened and begged him to desoda-fy your car because for real: that stuff is EVERYWHERE.
And you will be pissed, because REALLY? But also kind of happy that it was not, as you first feared, an actual machine gun hanging out in your trunk. And I suppose there are worse things to smell like than exploded Pepsi.
