just call me smurfette

so way back when when i was between the ages of 4 and 6. (yeah WAY back) i decided i wanted to clean the bathroom. not really sure WHY i wanted to. it's not like it's a fun activity. of all the cleaning activities i believe this one is clearly the least fun. so i start with the bath tub. i begin to look under the cabinets and begin to hunt for something to clean with. looking..... looking.... looking..... GOT IT! little did i know what i had in my little hands was not bathroom cleaner. remember the liquid automatic toilet cleaner that you hung in the back of the toilet?? the blue stuff.... makes your toilet water all oceanic looking.... yeah that's what i had in my hot little hands. so i begin to clean..... and suddenly it just starts spreading. blue. blue everywhere. the more i tried to clean this stuff and make it go away, the more it spread. i begin to panic a little. what have i done? what is this? what's happening? i'm sure if at that age i knew what the twilight zone was i would have sworn i was stuck in a bad episode. still panicking i decide to lock the door. what am i to do? this stuff is going NO WHERE. naturally i strip and i'm standing there naked. so i keep trying to make it go away. it still wasn't. for some reason my little brain thinks it's a good idea to get into the tub WITH the blue stuff. why? who knows? why do kids do anything? so i'm now butt naked in a tub of the amazing blue stuff trying to make it go away. suddenly my mother comes to the door. she tries to open the door. (oh no! i'm naked and blue! what am i gonna do!?) she then knocks (more panic) 'open the door' she calls from the other side. 'NO' i shout back at her. 'what are you doing in there?' she calls through the door. 'nothing!' (stupid stupid stupid. now she DEFINITELY knows SOMETHING is going on in here!) now she's beating on the door and trying to open it. she calls for my dad. (oh no! reinforcements!) and of course they are both calling to me through the door to unlock it meanwhile i'm steadily refusing and panicking. of course they get the door unlocked. to their amazement they open the door to the sight of their youngest daughter in a now blue tub, butt naked, and she was now blue from the neck down. i don't exactly remember exactly what happened next. but i definitely know they were NOT happy. i do remember my mother being angry that i got some of this mystery blue stuff on her good towels. (it came out) i was in a lot of trouble and i decided not to ever attempt to clean the bath tub ever again. just for the record...... toilet cleaner DOES NOT work well to clean the tub......... and this is how i have now earned the title 'smurf' among family members. hope you got a good laugh out of this one!