Chocolate Malt O'Meal

I walked into my office this morning to a strange sight and unusual smell.

Tuesday I did not have time to eat breakfast. I put some chocolate Malt o'Meal in a stainless steel thermos and added hot water. The thermos had a solid, screw-on type lid.

I threw the thermos in my pack, brought it to work and placed it on my desk. I never got around to eating the Malt o'Meal.

I am a home brewer so I am aware of what happens during the fermentation process. Perhaps I should have thought about that.

It is now four days later. This morning when I entered my office, things weren't quite the same as I'd left them.

Some time last night the lid of the stainless steel thermos, despite being screwed on, blew.

It seemed the mess was strangely isolated to only a few inches surrounding the thermos and a bit on the floor.

Now the question was, where was the lid? I looked around and did not see it.

I looked up and saw the light fixture and ceiling had been hit by a volcanic blast of chocolate Malt o'Meal.

Later I found the lid across the room. It smells like someone threw up in the office.

My co-worker was unappreciative does not find this funny.

I cleaned up what I could, but the job was too big for me. Fortunately I was in a meeting when the building maintenance people cleaned up the ceiling and light fixture. I have no idea how they removed it because it had already solidified and adhered like concrete.

Today I tip my hat to the maintenance people of the Plymouth Building.