Kids wrecked the hot tub

[u/ThomasVetRecruiter]

I think this is truly mildly annoying - no huge deal but frustrating.

So I just did a three day work trip ending in a 4 hour flight in a middle seat and then a 2 hour drive home from the airport.

I was really looking forward to jumping in the hot tub. For a quick bit of relaxation.

Well, see photo - my kids (16 and 12) had decided to first spread an entire bottle of concentrated dish soap on a slip and slide and then while still soapy jump in my hot tub.

Cue me getting home, eating dinner, and excitedly retreating to change into my suit only to discover that nope, tonight I'm draining my hot tub, rinsing it and the filter out, and then sitting by while it refills so I can get the heater back on and hopefully have a soak in the morning.

Edit: the kids did help wipe up the tub and clean the area - but I'm not keeping them up late just to wait for it to fill and turn the heater on.

[u/starplooker999]

When I was off on a trip my kid claimed one of his friends got diarrhea in the hot tub. He asked how to drain it.
Later he admitted they spilled the bong.

[u/PositiveCoyote100 → u/starplooker999]

Diarrhea is so much worse than bong water (which is admittedly rancid) 😂

[u/Admirable_Risk8156 → u/PositiveCoyote100]

Not if you probably clean your bong. Rancid bong water gonna give you a long infection.

Edit: I screwed up the spelling but since you guys enjoyed that, I'm not fixing it.

[u/adrock517 → u/Admirable_Risk8156]

i know someone who regularly has bong water so dirty its turned black like some sort of tea. resin tea.

[u/Lv_InSaNe_vL → u/adrock517]

I have a buddy and none of us will use his pieces. If we are smoking at his place I will legit bring my bong because of how gross his glass is 🤢

[u/shoomlax → u/Lv_InSaNe_vL]

Bongs can be difficult to clean if you don’t do it regularly but if you keep up with it daily it should genuinely be no hassle. I learned recently that mold only needs 24 hours max to develop in a bong so every day at the same time I clean my bong with coarse salt and isopropyl alcohol. It works beautifully and my bong is always fresh

[u/sammawammadingdong → u/shoomlax]

If it's a smaller peice too, you can simply keep it in the fridge to mitigate bacterial and mold growth.

[u/shoomlax → u/sammawammadingdong]

You know what, I’ve never thought of that. I do share a household with other people so maybe I’ll get myself a mini fridge. I always love hitting out of cold water/ice so that sounds pretty genius. Thanks!

[u/lena3moon → u/Admirable_Risk8156]

i used a friends bong, i thought the glass was amber. it was not. gave me a chest infection so bad i lost 3 weeks of school and i had to use a puffer 😭

[u/Any_Information_9745 → u/PositiveCoyote100]

I remember being a teenager (16 or so) with little experience with getting high (almost at 2 months sober from it now) and thinking that since there's gotta be THC dissolved in the water, drinking it will surely get me high. Lemme tell ya, if you wanna puke until you can't anymore, do that 😂

[u/Timely_Spinach_7479 → u/Any_Information_9745]

Omg. Just the smell of a spilled bong is enough to make me gag 🤢

[u/bis_levu → u/Any_Information_9745]

I would change the water after 3 cones from a bong and clean that shit once a week with coarse salt and isopropyl alcohol. Some of my mates had the most revolting rigs at their place, I have no idea how people enjoy when the rigs aren't pristine

[u/witchdancer → u/starplooker999]

PTSD flashbacks to when my friends mother was out of the house, so we were smoking in the sauna.

She came back unexpectedly, and like the idiots we were, we panicked and dumped the bong water into the sauna's hot coals.

Goddamn, the smell afterwards haha..

[u/Cosmonate → u/witchdancer]

The water in the bong is like the least incriminating part of it, you're still stuck with the bong..?

[u/witchdancer → u/Cosmonate]

Haha it was the most incriminating part for us because the smell of weed that permeated the entire sauna was due to the dirty bong water that we dumped in the coals, that's how she found out.

We had enough time to hide the bong itself because it was small and compactable, we just panicked and made a terrible decision.

[u/Average-Addict → u/witchdancer]

Did the smell ever go away?

[u/AtmosphereWilling266 → u/Average-Addict]

he's actually still in that sauna, experiencing a decades long hallucination. if he sobers up, we all cease to exist

[u/witchdancer → u/Average-Addict]

Great question, it happened over a decade ago, so I don't really remember but I know it hung around for a while and we got in some serious shit as they had been renting haha.

[u/ThomasVetRecruiter → u/starplooker999]

Yeah, there's definitely worse things my kids could have been doing and for that I'm grateful.

[u/okiedokiesmokieman → u/starplooker999]

Pretty clever

[u/nightpanda893 → u/okiedokiesmokieman]

Honestly if you need a lie to get yourself out of a situation and diarrhea can be that lie, always go with diarrhea. No one asks follow up questions when you say that magic word. No one ever wants more information. Works well when you need a quick excuse to leave a situation or call out of work too.

[u/splithoofiewoofies → u/starplooker999]

"So, you had the options of I think you shit yourself or you for high, and you chose shit yourself, huh?"

[u/Ok-Ad-5535 → u/splithoofiewoofies]

Well he did say it was his friend. And ngl I would have no shame hot tubs can be too relaxing sometimes 🤣

[u/Tiny-Nature3538]

See this would be the time I would have the kids learn how to drain clean and refill that sucker lol

[u/Joe-Stapler → u/Tiny-Nature3538]

Yep. My first thought was “why in the hell are you the one doing anything?”

[u/cracked-tumbleweed → u/Joe-Stapler]

Raising the next generation to not be accountable.

And they aren’t kids. They should know better by now not to mess up the hot tub.

If they weren’t taught at 12 and 16 then there are bigger issues lol.

[u/HiDDENk00l → u/cracked-tumbleweed]

The edit kinda makes sense. They had to do the initial clean up. But if OP is staying up til 3 am because they have to sit around and wait for it to drain, I think it seems spiteful to make the kids wait for that. If it was an evening task, hell yeah make them participate. But I think the clean up and the lecture about having to clean it out in the middle of the night so he could use it in the morning makes sense here.

Also, them doing that is dumb, but not unfathomably dumb for 12 and 16. They didn't put something in the tub, they obviously know not to do that. But they might not have realized they can't get in the tub covered in soap, that it would be just as bad. I kind of half-understand the ignorance there. It would be the kind of thing a parent would stop them from doing if they were present, but they might ignorantly do when unsupervised.

[u/tellyourdogIsaid → u/HiDDENk00l]

Tbf I had no idea soap was bad for hot tubs until just now. Then again my family has never owned one. Was never particularly close with anyone who owned one and can count the amount of times I have been in one on my hand. And 4 of those were probably in hotel swimming areas as a kid.

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/tellyourdogIsaid]

All soap is bad for hot tubs. It foams. It’s why you should rinse off before you get in the hot tub and why guests that don’t extra rinse gets their suits rinsed first.

its like hot tub 101 if you own one.

[u/darth_baconator6 → u/Inconceivable76]

Well I guess you found out a vast amount people can't afford one in today's economy. (Or afford space to put one for that matter)

[u/MickyMac00]

My mother would have grabbed a chair and relaxed while I cleaned that shit.

[u/jackrabbit323 → u/MickyMac00]

Exactly what my mom did when my sister and I threw a party when she wasn't home.

Worth it though.

[u/MickyMac00 → u/jackrabbit323]

Yeah my mom had some creative punishments, but I always learned my lesson.

I decided to “color”on a public park at 12, I had to clean all of it off. She also put me on mommy probation since the cops didn’t lol.

[u/thisdesignup → u/MickyMac00]

Making someone clean up their mess doesn't even seem like a punishment. It's just what someone should be taught to do. You make a mess, you clean it up so someone else doesn't have to.

[u/jackrabbit323 → u/MickyMac00]

The only hard part was getting berated in Spanish while we cleaned, and being told we were doing a crappy job of cleaning.

[u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

That’s old enough to watch them do it

[u/Svndmann → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

When I was around that age I opened the pressure cooker to see inside and closed it wrong so the steam couldn’t escape. The pot blew beans all over the kitchen and I had to clean them all up. Best teaching moment I ever had.

[u/colexian → u/Svndmann]

My dad was making boiled peanuts in a big pressure cooker in the garage. Apparently the release valve got clogged so he just left it for several hours.
Cue to later, comes back, still can't be opened, assumes its just jammed, and uses a crowbar to wedge it open. Of course he told no one he was doing this.
So everyone in the house just hears the sound of a gunshot going off, my dad freaking out, and steaming hot peanuts flying across the entire yard.
He was fine but it blew the lid of the pressure cooker right through the ceiling of our garage.
Big cartoon ass hole in it. Piles of peanuts steaming around the whole yard, like 30-40 feet away.

EDIT: wow this blew up. To answer some common questions:
No he wasn't hurt. No permanent hearing loss.
He thought it was hilariously funny after the fact and still laughs about it to this day.
Dude screamed and ran out the garage.
Yes, always be very careful with a pressure cooker, they are literally bombs.
He could have been grievously burnt/hurt, luckily it is a funny story and not a tragic one.

[u/Creative_Cat_322 → u/colexian]

We did that with a 6 foot propane cylinder on the beach. Built a BIG (like 30 foot high flames) bonfire and two of us chucked it into the fire. Never ran so fast in my life. 10 minutes later there's this impossibly low THUD in our chests and the tank is flying out over the Pacific. Then we looked down, and our 1 giant bonfire was now about 50 bonfires, all over the beach in every direction. It took us hours to put them all out.

[u/Melodic_Willingness → u/Creative_Cat_322]

Hahah when we were about 14 my friends and I decided to build a sparkler bomb with a steel pipe instead of a tennis ball. We capped off both ends and drilled a hole for a fuse to come out, and in our young minds all of the wonderful sparkler magic would shoot out of there too.

Well we set it all up, capped it all off, and placed it on a mates dad's trailer so it was on stable, non-flammable ground. We lit the fuse and waited for the show to start. Turns out if you place a bunch of sparklers in a tight space with nowhere for that energy to go you've just created an IED, something that a bunch of 14 year olds definitely didn't have the life experience to know. The steel pipe blew a hole in the trailer and shot a few bits of shrapnel out but luckily no one was hurt. My mates dad wasn't too impressed and we never made and IED again.

[u/Greedy_Muffin_7314 → u/Melodic_Willingness]

I almost could read that for fear hahaha

[u/Beneficial-Fuel1739 → u/Melodic_Willingness]

It’s amazing we are all still alive

[u/MsDJMA → u/Beneficial-Fuel1739]

My husband has stories like that of him & his two brothers and their "laboratory" (a shed in the backyard. It's amazing they're alive, too.

[u/Tylighter12 → u/Creative_Cat_322]

"We did that"

Proceeds to tell a story way different and 10 times more insane

[u/Creative_Cat_322 → u/Tylighter12]

I felt like propane and fire beats beans if we're talking about rapid expansion of gasses and the resultant mess, no?

[u/Tylighter12 → u/Creative_Cat_322]

You don't say🤣

[u/TransMascCatBoye → u/Creative_Cat_322]

Suppose it depends how many beans, how many people eating them, their daily fiber intake and how many bathrooms available lol

[u/frabjous_goat → u/Creative_Cat_322]

[u/Creative_Cat_322 → u/frabjous_goat]

We were 16 or 17 years old and nothing better to do. We were hoping for a free fireworks show

[u/Creative_Cat_322 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly, circa 1990 or so.

[u/Wide_Guitar_3558 → u/[deleted]]

it was during the good ol days, thats when!

[u/Turtlesfan44digimon → u/Creative_Cat_322]

Was it worth it?

[u/Creative_Cat_322 → u/Turtlesfan44digimon]

For sure. We got away with it and nobody got hurt. It was honestly underwhelming, but that deep thud in my chest (from 100 yards away) was seriously impressive to feel.

Today, Homeland Security would have us all portrayed as the next Unabomber by the 6pm news hour.

[u/CrystallineFrost → u/Creative_Cat_322]

I know so many people who just threw random things in bonfires that did not belong in bonfires in the early 2000s, so this was not surprising. So many burnt couches. Teen behavior around fires is just unpredictable, but always involves putting something dumb in a fire.

[u/Ricin83 → u/CrystallineFrost]

My grandpa used to throw the fireworks that didn’t go off into the bonfire at the family 4th of July. There were some flying ones that went off and flew out of the fire and at the people sitting around it. Watching people scramble out of lawn chairs and dodge them was something. My grandma (70s I think I the time) did an impressive tumble, roll, and pop back up. She missed rolling into the fire or chairs. It had leveled off at her about shoulder blade height and she couldn’t outrun it. He had to be told to stop after that, as he was still doing it. Same night. Moments later.

[u/frankly_sealed → u/Creative_Cat_322]

I don’t understand why they don’t understand. 30 years ago I probably would have done the same. Pretty sure this is why men’s life expectancy is lower…

[u/tofski_22 → u/Creative_Cat_322]

And here I was thinking putting a deodorant can in a bonfire was risky.

[u/sleepybrooke → u/tofski_22]

It is.

My backyard, my younger brother and his friends, my mom’s chimenea, a can of Axe.

Huge explosion, you could see the mushroom cloud from the front of the house.

[u/AllariTheRhamph → u/Creative_Cat_322]

Nice story brother but unless you welded the release valve shut it definitely would NOT explode.
Source: Ive put all lot of dumb shit in fires. Propane tanks ALWAYS just become a flamethrower for a while, but they do make a loud bang randomly when the fire goes out and everything cools allowing it to sorta “implode” on itself from pressure. (This doesnt happen every time)
Now a can of beans on the other hand… ole son you better hope you aren’t in the way when them beans explode and coat everything within 30 feet in steaming hot beans.
C02 canisters make a nice boom also

[u/Ivotedforher → u/colexian]

Birds still talk about that day.

[u/samboreen → u/colexian]

My father blew up the pressure cooker making apricot jam. The sugary sticky mixture blocked the release valve. I have no idea why he thought he needed to make jam in a pressure cooker.

[u/SnipesCC → u/Svndmann]

My sister opened a pressure cooker that was making potatoes without venting it. Mashed potatoes everywhere. 5 years later my parents moved and still found blobs of it in cracks and crevices.

[u/FourLeafClover1997 → u/SnipesCC]

You can open one without releasing the pressure? Mine simply won't open!

[u/SnipesCC → u/FourLeafClover1997]

Sounds like a safety feature that one built in the 70s didn't have.

[u/FourLeafClover1997 → u/SnipesCC]

It opens from the inside. So it's basically impossible to open if pressure exists.

I just looked up the older versions, that's basically a cap on top of a container. No wonder it used to blast open a lot more frequently

[u/fhota1 → u/FourLeafClover1997]

Old pressure cookers were insane lol. Theres a reason you still hear myths about how dangerous they are. Modern ones are great though, they have enough safety features that unless youre trying really hard you arent going to get them to do anything particularly exciting

[u/EndIsrael → u/FourLeafClover1997]

The old ones are just a metal pot with a locking lid that has a pressure gauge and relief valve. However, when under pressure, it should be pretty hard to remove the lid since the pressure inside is pushing upward on the lid, adding tons of friction to the locking tabs around the edge.

[u/Alert-Currency6536 → u/SnipesCC]

TIL mashed potatoes can be used as caulk and drywall repair. 

[u/-Mikey2Toes → u/Svndmann]

When I was that age (16) I stole my dad’s car (Orange VW Bug) when they were away for the weekend and wrecked out going to fast around a curve.. I parked it in the drive way with the damage facing away from the house for him to discover when he went to drive to work Monday morning…. I think he would of appreciated the dish soap in a hot tub 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Chrono_Constant3 → u/-Mikey2Toes]

When I was 13 a friend and I lit a mason jar filled with gas on fire on a set of wooden steps and when it burned a lot longer than I expected we poured a glass of water into it which shattered the glass spilling burning gas under the deck and doing some pretty significant damage. Luckily there was a pile of leftover 2x6s from building the deck and a chop saw and my friend and I replaced all of the burnt pieces before my mom got home from work as a bar tender. I never got caught, but looking back on it it was so much sketchier than it seemed at the time.

[u/throwawayinthe818 → u/[deleted]]

See, you forgot that when you were just a baby, your mama told you, “Son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns.”

[u/warmmeatinjection → u/throwawayinthe818]

Well, at least they didn't shoot the sheriff and spare the deputy.

[u/Extreme-Name-69 → u/[deleted]]

Let us know tomorrow if you don't get a visit from Renos cold case department (that never heard the song)

[u/AnimalsofArtemis → u/Extreme-Name-69]

When I was 16, I thought I hit a deer but I looked back and it was some guy and it was so bloody. He didn’t make it. I just dragged him to the side of the road and covered it up with some leaves and branches. I kept getting messages saying “I know what you did,” but nothing came of it. 

[u/Ok-Economics6287 → u/AnimalsofArtemis]

I know what you did last summer

[u/iDoWeird → u/Ok-Economics6287]

I was in middle school when the first film came out, so the original novel ended up as an assignment in either my eighth or ninth grade English class. My mom always assumed anything I read was age appropriate (TV and music she was always paranoid about) so she didn’t bat an eye at first. Then something came on TV that made her ask (prob an ad for the movie landing at Blockbuster or a sequel trailer), so I did the only reasonable thing I could think of. I made up an elaborate, cliche g-rated synopsis on the spot and said that it was about kids who only ever saw each other at summer camp and something about learning about the depths of friendship through the years with some side plot bc I felt like the bogus summary wasn’t convincing enough as is…so it needed some classic young adulthood drama to give it some oomph and connect it somehow to the title (as a titular line, natch!) bc that was what she was focusing on. So I added a bit about how when they went back home after camp ended each year, their regular year-round friends felt left out, so out of jealousy from worrying that their friend liked their summer friends more than them, they’d always act like they knew of some big embarrassing thing that happened during that past summer’s camp so the leader of the friend group would repeatedly prod them by saying “oh…[so-and-so/main character name] I know what you did last summer” until that friend got so sick of it that they decided not to ever have non-summer camp friends ever again until everyone ended up going to that same summer camp the final summer before they aged out and became high school seniors and all became one giant friend group…..so in the end, the last thing they knew what they did last summer was learning that everyone mattered no matter who went to camp or on vacation where and that friendships CAN survive a three-month gap!

Thank fuck she didn’t ask me how I knew the ending before I even got halfway through the book 🤦‍♀️. If it were anyone else’s ma, I’d reflect and say “she knew all along what the book was about and just played along to see how creative I could get with it,” but my mother was…uh, uncommonly dense and disconnected from pop culture. Even things that were omnipresent during her twenties until I popped out in her mid thirties. Like, when Bowie died she had no idea who everyone was mourning, and that same time she only said “the name is kinda familiar” after Prince passed. Movies or books? Don’t even attempt to see if something massive from her youth rings a bell. Ffs, last MONTH she texted me asking if I ever heard of “some guy named Sting” and that he seemed like a decent musician 🤣

[u/SteamWilly → u/AnimalsofArtemis]

I was drunk one night, driving erratically, and I hit something. Fortunately, it was just a BOOT. Boy, was I ever relieved!

Then I relieved myself. So I was even MORE relieved!

Somebody should make a movie with that scene in it some time!

They could call it "Airplane!". No.............wait.............that's not a good fit. Maybe some other movie.

[u/ContributionFlat7082 → u/-Mikey2Toes]

When I was 16 I stole my mom's brown small car, with my best friend, drunk on years old forgotten peach schnapps, and I eventually rode it up a median with all 4 tires off the ground. On a 6 lane 50 mph road. A cop found us shortly afterward, we had popped the hood and were pretending to fix the engine when he pulled up. I can't even imagine the laughs we generated in the squad break room after that.

[u/turningtogold → u/ContributionFlat7082]

So specific. I also stole a car, my friend’s mom’s minivan, at 16, drunk on old peach schnapps. How many of us do you think there are? Should we all meet up or something

[u/SeraxOfTolos → u/-Mikey2Toes]

How odd! At 15 or 16, I was driving home from school, different town don't ask, and I accidentally shifted from 5th to second, missed 4th don't ask, and literally blew up the engine of my 80s VW Jetta. I had to get towed home and since I would have actually been in trouble had I called a tow truck, I had to call my dad to tow me the last half mile. Turns out when you do that to a 4 cylinder diesel it imprints the valves on the cylinder head and shoots the connecting rod through the cylinder wall. Dad found a good deal on a used engine with a turbo so I had almost 40 hp!

[u/YaBoiCalin → u/-Mikey2Toes]

Lmao, I had a very similar thing happen. I forgot to put the car in park and it rolled backwards down the driveway slightly with the door open and crunched the passenger door backwards.My dad didn’t even notice the damage until I told him because I knew he would after more than a day of being back. Hahaha, good times.

[u/momlife555 → u/-Mikey2Toes]

This brought back a memory of one time I stupidly took my parents car for a ride before I had a license, before I ever drove a car. Why??? I just got hot with anxiety thinking about it. Can’t believe nothing bad happened

[u/discombobubolated → u/-Mikey2Toes]

I did that too but fortunately my sister borrowed the car soon after. They blamed it on her 🤣

[u/hyperlite135 → u/discombobubolated]

Oh man. Did you ever come clean? That’s hilariously unfortunate for your sister and honestly pretty fucked up of you lol

[u/ArchaicBrainWorms → u/hyperlite135]

Hey man, there was no blame left to take, she'd already taken it!

[u/OceanRacoon → u/discombobubolated]

That's evil lol, did you ever tell them? Did your sister say it was you the whole time? 😅

[u/Suspicious_synth → u/-Mikey2Toes]

When I was 16 I lit a fire on the railroad tracks just to watch it burn it caught a fence on fire which was creeping up to the roof of a house so we ran and called the fire department. The cops asked who called the fire department I raised my hand. The next day I was in the newspaper. "Local boy saves home" I lived in guilt because my mom had it clipped on the fridge for years until I finally told her that I was the one that lit the fire. She's says, "I know"

[u/Substantial_Bake_728 → u/Svndmann]

You didn't mean to but you still did. And because of that you have to fix it.

Doesn't mean you have to be yelled at or belittled. Shit happens. Later in life this will happen and its best you know how to handle it.

Good parenting moment for your folks and glad you learned something positive from it. Parents should hold their kids responsible.

[u/14Knightingale27 → u/Substantial_Bake_728]

I really appreciate this comment. So often parents are caught up in (honestly pretty fair) frustration that the first instinct is to make their kids fix it as punishment. But really it's important to know how to fix a fuck up of any kind. If they don't know, teach them how, and let them clear the mess they made. Good life skill later in life to know messes can be cleaned up and also figure out that there's some stuff you should not do lmao.

[u/StarMaterial1496 → u/Svndmann]

KABLAMMO GOES DA BEANZ!

[u/Snoo_62693 → u/StarMaterial1496]

[u/Crime_Dawg → u/Svndmann]

Congrats, you created a bomb in your kitchen and are very lucky the only outcome was cleaning up beans.

[u/Eastern_Magazine8023 → u/Svndmann]

I did almost the exact same thing, but I opened it pressurized (not fully, thank goodness) to see what was for dinner. A huge mess that I had to clean up, plus that was no longer what was for dinner.

[u/GayButNotInThatWay → u/Svndmann]

Still remember being about 11 or 12 and using the blender to blend some blackberries me and a friend had picked while my mum had popped to the shop.
We didn't put the lid on correctly so when it started blending it launched up and out and coated half the kitchen. Spent ages trying to get all the bits off the cupboards and floor, but neither of us could work out how to get it off the ceiling so my mum was livid when she got home.

[u/ThrowawayMoFo5679 → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

When my kids were in elementary, two of them (son and youngest daughter) used to climb onto the bottom bunk bed and use their body weight to force the end of the mattress down in between two of the wooden slats underneath. I have no idea why they did this and to this day they have no idea why they did it either. Anyway I kept telling them (at increasing volume over time) to stop doing that because they were going to rip the mattress. Then I'd walk into their room and see the end of the mattress hunched over and crammed down between the slats, like "God damn it...KIDS!! COME HERE!"

Anyway it finally happened, the mattress ripped on its side, and the rip spread the whole way down its length and around one end. I was so exasperated and annoyed with the two of them. I got my sewing kit and made them sit down and watch me thread two needles. They were so surprised when I handed them the needles and told them they were about to learn how to sew. They started at opposite ends of the rip and slowly worked their way towards each other. Took like 90 minutes (not counting breaks), they were very proud of themselves afterward, and they both said they liked learning to sew, but they were finally cured of the desire to do that shit anymore. And I got a couple of funny photos of them patiently stitching a mattress back together.

Definitely let the kids help fix their own mistakes whenever possible rather than doing it for them. They learn more that way.

[u/t_moneyzz → u/ThrowawayMoFo5679]

I really thought the story was gonna end with you finding them cramming it down there again after finishing the sewing haha

[u/Neferhathor → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

I had the reverse experience of this when I was around 16. My dad told me to do yard work with him on a hot day, and I went to put some ice in a water bottle before I went outside. I found his forgotten can of Coca Cola that he stashed in the freezer that morning, and it had spewed EVERYWHERE. It was one of those side-by-side freezer/fridges, so everything in the freezer side was sprayed down by the cokesplosion, including the walls and door panel. I told him that I'd clean it all up if he didn't make me come out to do yard work and he took my offer.

[u/ColeTrainHaze → u/Neferhathor]

this is the true art of the deal

[u/LinusV1 → u/ColeTrainHaze]

Plot twist: his dad knew about the can and told OP they were going to do "yard work". When OP in all cleverness offered to clean the freezer instead, dad said "ok" and went fishing with his buddies instead.

[u/AlGekGenoeg → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

From a lounge chair with a bucket of cold beers next to OP 👌🏻

[u/12bWindEngineer → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

When I was about 14 my twin brother and I put a hole in the wall, that was the day we were taught how to replace drywall.

[u/Longjumping_Spot7410 → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

Damn right! I felt like a total prick typing and deleting a response, but no actually: it's a Friday night, and actions have consequences!! They have nowhere to be in the morning, and they're plenty old enough to clean up some soap, drain a hottub, and refill it!!

[u/Unique_Persimmon9454 → u/Longjumping_Spot7410]

Yeah I was surprised to see him add the thing about them going to sleep lol

[u/BlueHundred → u/Unique_Persimmon9454]

Yeah. This is a make the kids drain the hot tub, rinse it, and refill. Keep them up late because there should be consequences to their actions. The oldest is 16 not 6

[u/Emotional_Biz_69]

I have three teens and no hot tub, how do I get no teens and three hot tub?

[u/creatyvechaos → u/Emotional_Biz_69]

It seems to be a 2:1 conversion, so you'll need to first double your number of teens if you want three hot tubs

[u/Majestic_Ad_320]

Only answer here is child labor

[u/AHole1stClassSkippy → u/Majestic_Ad_320]

The children yearn for the mines

[u/s_ox → u/AHole1stClassSkippy]

That’s why they are called miners

[u/Cakeinwonderland → u/Majestic_Ad_320]

[u/Wantitneeditgetit]

Fuck they must have been screaming down that slip 'n slide.

Man I remember some wicked grass burns and ass bruises from those going wrong as a kid. Good times, 10/10 would do again.

[u/SquanchingWampa → u/Wantitneeditgetit]

😂😂😂 like you zoned out when dude said slip n slide

[u/MandibleCrayon]

This is honestly one of my biggest regrets from high school. Friend of mines parents were out of town and so she had a party. My friend and I being stupid teenagers who don’t know any better thought “let’s make a bubble bath hot tub!” Half a bottle of Garnier later…we came and emptied and flushed it like three times and it still was foaming like crazy. Red sox won the World Series about a month later though.

[u/Fatfilthybastard → u/MandibleCrayon]

You guys washed away the curse of the Bambino

[u/MandibleCrayon → u/Fatfilthybastard]

I never thought about it that way. I change my mind. Best decision ever.

[u/MandibleCrayon → u/MandibleCrayon]

Edit - She told us that it ruined the hot tub and they had to replace it.

[u/fiv3dollapizza → u/MandibleCrayon]

That’s a hell of an addition to that story

[u/mangopinecone → u/fiv3dollapizza]

Fr why include that bit about the Red Sox in the OP and not the part about needing to replace the hot tub 🤔

[u/Maleficent_Pen_9076 → u/MandibleCrayon]

how do bubbles ruin a hottub

[u/deliciouscorn → u/Maleficent_Pen_9076]

I think it’s super bad for the pump because it isn’t pushing a solid stream of water anymore. (I remember some kids putting bubble mix in fountains around town and it was all fun and games until it broke the pumps)

[u/crazycatlady1214]

The irony of my targeted ad in the middle of your post…

[u/No_Stable_3539 → u/crazycatlady1214]

Very good algorithms 🤣

[u/mindovic → u/crazycatlady1214]

I genuinely wonder if this ad is intended, or just a coincidence 

[u/Jman85]

Wrecked is not accurate

[u/RedditFandango → u/Jman85]

I would have jumped in and dealt with the soap later.

[u/Dontbeawankermod → u/RedditFandango]

Bingo… soak and a shower at the same time

[u/g0ldilungs → u/RedditFandango]

Same. That’s the confusing part- all those sore bones and a little dish soap isn’t going to deter me from soaking.
It’s Friday!- the kids and I would be dealing with that in the morning.

[u/heynongmanreset → u/Jman85]

Absolutely. OP has every right to be frustrated but the title is so misleading. The title wouldn't belong in this sub although the actual details are quite fitting.

[u/Spite_Powered]

It’s a party foul. If it wasn’t malicious or careless, shit happens. The squad cleans it up, lesson learned.

[u/Boogleooger → u/Spite_Powered]

yeah, a lot of replies in these comments are making me sad at the state of most peoples parenting styles. Blowing up on your kids for a honest mistake is wrong. glad to see some people have good sense

[u/JusticeFromTheForest]

Hello from a former child who wrecked the hot tub!  One lovely cold Midwest winter about 30 years ago my friend and I were enjoying a hot tub in the snow and me being a responsible kid turned it all off after using it.  Including the heater.  Hot tub didn’t make it through the night, but in true parent form my dad said this.  “It made it 15 years and god know how much alcohol has been through these filters.  It was on its last legs and was one repair away from getting removed.  Your punishment is to take apart the deck, I’ll take care of the tub.”  At that time I was a shi…hellraiser, so called my buddy Cole, told him we get to take down the deck.  Two sawzalls, two sledgehammers, two surges and two hours and that deck was gone.  Long story short, I love my Dad.

[u/lovelouielightnngbug]

i thought this was snow and ice when i first saw the picture

[u/Natural20Twenty → u/lovelouielightnngbug]

I thought it hadn't been cleaned in 12 months

[u/ThomasVetRecruiter → u/Natural20Twenty]

Ot got a little wrongly cleaned

[u/theamydoll → u/ThomasVetRecruiter]

You are going to have them drain, clean, and refill it, right? They’re old enough for that chore/task/consequence.

[u/Efficient_Anxiety_88]

divorce your kids bruh there is no saving this relationship, u set up boundaries and your children violated them , i would start talking to a lawyer now

[u/1290_money → u/Efficient_Anxiety_88]

Literally every Reddit relationship advice post ever 😂😂😂

[u/wrongplanet1]

When my kids made a mistake, they had to fix it. Tore a window screen? They fixed it while I watched. Anything they messed up, they cleaned up/fixed. Make your kids fix what they messed up. They are too old to be this destructive without consequences.

[u/mshaefer]

If it does you any good, genuinely try to imagine being 12 or 16 with your sibling and having a dish soap slip and slide and hot tub party. I’m with you, it’d peeve me to no end to know I earned a good soak just to discover that mess. But when my kids do this kind of stuff I learned from someone much wiser to try hard to get in my mental Time Machine and go back to that age and imagine how I would’ve wanted my dad to react. Good on them for helping clean. Mildly infuriating for sure. But they must’ve had a blast.

[u/wms686]

When i was a teenager i had friends over when my mom was out of town. We were in the hot tub and then all of a sudden one of the guys was pouring dish soap in. There were bubbles all across the patio and i was pissed and terrified. I don't know how but the bubbles dissipated by the time she was back and she never noticed. I told her about 10 years later and showed her the pictures.

[u/MacaroonSad8860]

Man, I feel like I was a good kid. My dad, on the other hand, set off a hotel fire alarm by smoking weed in the bathtub.

[u/ViolettaQueso]

I’d have jumped in for 2 hours, hit the hay and dealt with it tomorrow.

[u/coci222]

Reminds me of my first job. I worked at a health club and we had hot tubs in each locker room. They had their own separate little rooms in the locker room that the hot tub was in. One of the members came to the front desk and told me I should go check out the one in the men's locker room. I go in and open the door to the hot tub room only to be met with a wall of foam. The entire room was filled with suds. Well, one of our guests, who was mentally disabled, took the shampoo from the shower and made his own bubble bath. It took me hours to drain and rinse that shit

[u/Mystic_Wunder]

Ahh bummer. I hope you have a great soak in the morning.

[u/ThePlutoBlackSpades]

Rubbing alcohol kills soap. It might make the clean up a lot less messy and quicker

[u/modest_merc]

I did this at a hotel on vacation with one of my friends on a family trip. We thought it was hilarious. My dad was pissed but somehow the manager of the hotel had a sense of humor about it.

We didn’t get charged for the cleaning bill which was nice of them. I feel bad about it 20 years later

[u/Chartarum]

Edit: the kids did help wipe up the tub and clean the area - but I'm not keeping them up late just to wait for it to fill and turn the heater on.

Harsh but justified... (just kidding)

[u/Tinawebmom]

When I was a teen my friend put liquid dish soap into his parents hot tub because I said I wanted bubbles.

The bubbles went all the way into his parents bedroom.

I've no idea how he explained it or even hid what happened!

[u/LightofNew]

Alright "wrecked" is a bit of a stretch

[u/Pepperoncini0109]

Why on earth would you be the one to clean this?

[u/Opposite_One1331 → u/Pepperoncini0109]

Ya a 12 and 16 YO are more than capable of doing this.

[u/sterf_7]

When I was 13 I spilled an entire packet of orbies into the hot tub and I invited some friends over and we got all of them out before my parents ever knew

[u/Global_Many3163]

I bet those kids had the BEST sibling time going wild on that slip 'n slide knowing they were home alone and got to do ANYTHING.

Sounds like good, reckless kid decisions though irresponsible, and also still good on you for knowing it could have been worse.

Glad they did help clean up also.

All good fun ends well.

[u/ratz607]

I know it could be too late but there is a chemical called defoamer I use it in my day to day jobs and clean up soap everyday. Using just a cap full knocks out all the bubbles in a mop bucket and prevents any from showing up. Just saying it could be worth a try.

[u/HoodFeelGood]

i would have just gotten in the hot tub tonight, and wash it tomorrow

[u/Bman4k1]

Its actually really interesting seeing both sides of the comments. I would have expected 15 hell even 10 years ago it would universally be “these kids should stay up all night to clean” based on the comments its about 60-40 to “don’t yell at the children”.

I won’t pass judgement but I do find it interesting how society changed and children are raised a lot more softer these days.

[u/PurpleHymn → u/Bman4k1]

What’s odd to me is some people treating having the kids clean the mess they made as punishment. That should be considered a basic part of living as a human, so they should learn it. It’s a teaching opportunity! “I hope you’ve had your fun with the tub. I’d like to use it too, so now I need you to do x y z to clean it.”

[u/dualdreamer → u/Bman4k1]

They don't need to be yelled at. They know they messed up. But they should be helping clean it at the least.

It's the weekend so I doubt they have school tomorrow. They can boot up some video games and take filling and draining it

[u/NRiley11]

Isn't parenthood awesome?

[u/UCFknight2016]

The 16 and 12 year old can clean.

[u/Loveya448]

Have them clean it up. Your oldest is 2 years away from being an adult.

[u/Square_Rip7165]

"Edit: the kids did help wipe up the tub and clean the area - but I'm not keeping them…", I wouldnt keep Them either

[u/welcomehomesays]

Lmao this is not wrecked, it's just a deep clean. Bad timing though for sure lol. But could've been much worse. I expected $$$$ repairs or replacement based on your title but then that would be extremely infuriating and not mildly infuriating.

What was their punishment or reward for the deep clean? 🫧

[u/laujalb]

Lol your kid is going to be an adult in 2 years and you're cleaning up their mess and ,"not keeping them up late"? Come on man.

[u/FlounderingGuy]

Points for the infuriation actually being minor. This is the level of relatively wealthy first world problem stuff the sub was made for

[u/psiprez]

I still would have gone in, and been squeaky clean after!

[u/Rawlus]

why aren’t the kids held accountable and made to participate in the cleanup? why are you covering for them?

[u/1stGearDuck]

This is why I will never want to own a hot tub; maintenance nightmare.

Edit: Lots of people comparing hot tub to kids, but I'd compare it to something more relevant like a jacuzzi tub - you don't have to worry about water chemistry, keeping it covered, heating energy bills, etc.

[u/ThomasVetRecruiter → u/1stGearDuck]

I find it really worth it. But I have sciatica and my wife has had two total knee replacements (she was airborne, messed her knees and hips up). If you're not getting therapeutic value from it then yes, it is a lot of upkeep to keep it all set up clean.

[u/Informal_Ad4399 → u/ThomasVetRecruiter]

I have widespread small fiber neuropathy. Hot tub is a good relief. Especially in winter. Ours has been little maintenance. Balances pretty easily and stays there.

Cleaning sucks, but it's only 2 to 3 times a year. We don't use it much in the summer though.

[u/Blue_Collar_Golf → u/1stGearDuck]

they're so easy, ill never not have one. Stuff breaks rarely, but they're not complex and easy to fix. Just a sum of basic parts.

[u/MattLogi → u/1stGearDuck]

Maybe an old beater tub but a new salt tub with a $100 Taylor kit has never been easier. Drain and fill once a year on lighter user, twice if we use more. Test it once or twice a week and a small dose of liquid chlorine after each use and that’s it. If I have a party or heavy kid load, bring up the chlorine to 10ppm for 24 hours. It’s actually easy once you get the hang of it. Having said that, it took me a winter to get the hang of it.

[u/Sad-Tradition-563]

Why not just go into the soapy hot tub for a bit then drain it

[u/GrinderGoodMk2Bad]

A lot of soaps float above water so if you put a hose in at the bottom and had water spill over the top it would probably get rid of most of the soap without having to drain it

[u/Jollytime715]

I would have got in anyway

[u/Cold-Complaint-4121]

For next time you could possibly get away with a spa defoamer liquid, depending on how much got in. We also use this for people who think dawn is okay in a dishwasher 😂

[u/Interesting-Fig9403]

[u/ClarenceWhorley617]

I'm mildly frustrated that I don't have a hot tub for my kids to fuckup

[u/squigglekisses]

Sucks but good on you for making them help clean but not keeping them up late. Good parenting. Still teaches responsibility matters even with mistakes

[u/ChrisInBliss]

It’s Friday. No good reason for them to not stay up late cleaning it up

[u/dotdedo]

I had to double check the ages because everyone in the comments is saying you're too hard on them because they don't know better.

The 16 year old was old enough to know not put dish soap in a hot tub. Come on now. They aren't a goo goo gah gah baby at 16.

[u/babe_ruthless3]

This is worse than wanting cereal and seeing no milk in the fridge.

[u/TreyRyan3]

Not going to lie, I would have probably just enjoyed a nice soapy soak first, then drained the tub afterwards.

[u/OrneryOriental]

At least you made them help clean up. Too many “parents” just let their kids…slide. 🫢

[u/PaltryCharacter]

just sit in the bubbles and fix it tomorrow bro

[u/le-derpina-art]

i'm glad we couldn't afford a hot tub cause i absolutely would have done this when i was younger

[u/FindjeanniePDX]

LOL, we did something similar as kids and had to drain, clean and refill the tub. It was my dad’s pride and joy that he and mom installed in a room they added onto our home. The carpet had to cleaned (by us) and we had to pay for the cost of renting a steam cleaner. 🫣😆

[u/iletitshine]

Bubbles!

[u/aw4re]

Look at Mr. Hot Tub over here

[u/TheBrenster]

My kids did the exact same thing last summer. I shop vacuumed the bubbles out and the water was fine after that

[u/General_NakedButt]

I mean it’s just dish soap, enjoy your soak then clean it out after lol.

[u/Scamp3D0g]

Damn. If only you had a time machine so you could fix that.

[u/Spiritual_Aioli3396]

….. as an adult I ran out of dishwasher detergent so put a bit of dawn dish soap in the thing instead and went out my day lol foam everywhere!! That’s what this picture reminded me of lol things can get real foamy real quick

[u/Kevelle68]

Yeah, kids. Am I right?

[u/No-Consequence4606]

Sounds like a story my aunt would tell about my cousins lol

[u/40oz_TEC-9]

Could be worse. A kid shit in the pool at my building complex for the third time in a year. Never going in that thing.