What's the Chance of That?

I don't know about winning the varnish lottery but it is worth a GA as far as I'm concerned!

I had a similar incident with a 1 gallon plastic pail, about 1/3 filled with exterior house stain on a concrete patio.

Being about 12 years old at the time, my results did not turn out as good as yours.

I figured that I could turn the pail back over really, really fast and be able to save the stain and concrete patio. Didn't work out that way.

Thankfully there was a garden hose nearby and my Dad was not.

When I was younger one of the stunts we would do was to put the tip for the waitress in a glass filled to the rim with water, and invert it on the table. The trick was to place a plastic menu over the glass, and invert it. Then, place the glass upside down on the table, and pull the menu out. Priceless reaction the first time the waitress has it done to her.

What a great story ... thanks.

Good to know that Murphy doesn't always win.

I hope your students got to see your "save" ... sometimes a lesson in ingenuity is better than a lesson in varnishing.

Kind regards ...

Thanks for all the comments the students had left by then but our technician couldn`t believe his eyes.

Unbelievably, I saw a guy in the University of Tasmania bar accidentally drop a 10 oz beer glass that was 3/4 full and whilst falling it rotated fully 360 degrees (upside down and back upright) and he caught it the top of his foot and balanced it till he could grab it by hand, losing an estimated 1 oz of beer. Unrepeatable!!