OMG WTF Glass Everywhere

[blacksquirrel]

So my upstairs window just exploded. I did not know windows could do that. It is two panes of glass and only the inner layer burst - the outer layer isn't even cracked. But the inner layer very dramatically shattered while I was eating dinner, making a huge boom and raining glass down through my drying laundry and the spiral staircase to clatter onto my living room floor.

I've just finished over two hours of cleaning and I am now having a beer, watching Arrow, and eyeing all the rest of my windows suspiciously. My landlord says it can't be fixed until later in the week and that he's "not liable" so there might be a fight on the horizon over who pays to fix an exploding window.

Comments

[revolutionaryjo]

OMG! Well I'm really glad that you were not in the vicinity for exploding glass when it occurred. I didn't know that was a thing either. But man, that must have been hell to clean up. :(

[blacksquirrel]

It was indeed terrible to clean up! Especially because of the laundry - which I shook out, but won't really trust until I have it washed and tumble-dried at the laundromat (not in my washing machine where I could just spread glass shards to all my other clothes!)

[the_shoshanna]

How does that even HAPPEN? Good god. I'm glad you (and your dinner) weren't in the same room when it did!

[blacksquirrel]

I have no idea! It was so strange and shocking!

[par_avion]

Yikes! Glad you weren't in the room.

[blacksquirrel]

Thanks! It was quite scary.