Wet was I thinking??

Mom always told me to NEVER ever use hand dishwashing soap in the dishwasher. EVER. I should only use automatic dishwasher detergent. Well, one day, not long after the The Great Waterbed Incident, I discovered that I was out of dishwasher detergent. Remembering Mom’s advice about not using regular dishwashing soap, I knew better than to fill the little soap cups in the dishwasher with Dawn or Pamolive. Instead, I put one teeny tiny drop of Pamolive in there. Just one. And it was teeny. I started up the dishwasher and then went about my business. After a reasonable amount of time for the dishwasher cycle to be finished, I came back to check on the dishes. The sight the greeted me in the kitchen continues to haunt me to this day. The entire kitchen (eat-in size) was filled with frothy suds about two feet deep. This was before the Foam Dancing craze, or my roommates and I would have just invited some friends over and had a party. I don’t even remember what it took to get that mess cleaned up. But I do remember that afterward the kitchen floor sparkled like a fine-cut diamond.