WHO IS SPILLING THINGS EVERYWHERE!?

Yes, the title says basically explains the day I had. In my chemistry lab we had to work with micro amounts of dissolved compounds and because of that I was going to pick up the little glass applicators when the bottle was stuck to this paper... a paper that was also under all of the solution bottles... and yes I said all of them. This caused the bottles to overturn and spill all over the counter, the paper, me, and my assignment. Quickly uprighting the containers and composing myself I tried again to get the little glass applicators, by picking up the bottle... I think you can see where this is going. Lets just say that I was quickly turning red and becoming flustered when a guy in my class looked at me and said, "Bummer, I would just run!".

Well that is solid advice and I would have taken it except I still had not accomplished what I came to do, put the dabs of reagent on the slide! So this time making sure that I did not try to pick the bottle up I was able to get the glass applicators and then apply the reagent. I was in the clear... time to run back to my station! Just as I was placing the last dab my TA came up behind me and shouted, "WHO IS SPILLING THINGS EVERYWHERE!?".

This did two things, one it scared the living daylights out of me, which caused me to flinch and almost knock them over again, but it also caused my face to turn about 4 shades of red and there was no way I couldn't confess now.

Luckily I have the coolest TA on the planet and he let it slide. He also let it slide when I exposed my slide to the UV light and it quickly became apparent that I had spilled A LOT of the reagents on the top of the slide because the whole thing was black (it should have glowed green). Lets just say, I hope we never have to do that again!