When drinking glasses explode

[taylweaver]

This evening, I removed a stack of glasses from my cabinet. I separated the top one from the one below it, and put the other two back in the cabinet. About five minutes later, we heard a shattering noise. When I reopened the cabinet, there was one glass, with the shattered remnants of the glass that had been above it settled in its bottom and clinging around the upper edges in a way that was still vaguely drinking-glass shaped. The shards looked like the kind you get when a car window breaks, and for a few minutes afterward, just like with the car window (yes, a car window once broke on me - safety glass is very cool), we could hear the glass crackling. Later, when I cleaned all of the glass off the shelf, I discovered that shards of glass had landed in the top glass of another stack of three glasses (remember, the broken one was in a stack of two when it broke) - which means that not only did it shatter, it shattered with enough force to send glass flying upward! It is a very good thing that cabinet door was closed.

I took pictures, but I don't know how to post them here.

It was a rather intriguing experience.

Comments

in case you want to...

[j00j.livejournal.com]

To post pictures here, you would need to host them somewhere else (unless you have a paid account, in which case you get space to upload photos on lj's servers), like Photobucket or Flickr (both have decent free account options) and then either post links to the pictures, or display the images themselves (the HTML tag for that is [img src="www.address_of_picture_goes_here.com"] where [ ] are replaced with < >. If it's a lot of pictures, you probably wanna put 'em under the LJ cut tag.

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

whoa, cool. except for the loss of the glasses themselves, of course.

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

The glass was rather cheap - as in, I paid very little for it. The not cool part was cleaning up all the bits that went flying. :)

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

A friend's grandmother used to blow out her Hanukkah candles after a while, because she once had a menorah explode on her.

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

My menorah once caught fire...

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Of what was it made?

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Of a material that logically catches fire - wood!