Miscellaneous: Today, I spilt purple washing detergent all over my white carpet....

By carpetoops - 21/06/2009 16:20 - United Kingdom

Today, I spilt purple washing detergent all over my white carpet. Desperate to get it up I grabbed a blue towel and started mopping it up. The detergent hasn't stained the carpet at all, the blue dye from the towel has. FML

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Today, it was my first day as a vacuum salesman. While I was demonstrating how well it removed stains, I managed to smear stuff over the area I was cleaning. So not only was I unsuccessful in removing the original stains, I left them with worse carpet than when I got there. FML

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Sunday 21 June 2009 23:09

A detergent that stains would be pretty ineffective... Lol That sucks, though.

manoverboard 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 23:07

Put some food coloring on it and make it a rainbow?

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wowyoufail 2

Monday 22 June 2009 5:39

the first line sounded quite dirty And I was disappointed when I read the rest of that damn post

Copilot 0

Monday 22 June 2009 6:23

Since when is something that is essentially soap going to stain things? Did you not think it was going to stain your clothes in the washing machine? YDI for being stupid.

summer66_fml 0

Monday 22 June 2009 6:30

are you serious????? if it didnt stain your clothes why would it stain your carpet????

ponu 0

Monday 22 June 2009 7:38

She states that the purple detergent "did not stain the carpet," which is what leaves people to believe that she was dumb enough to think it would stain. It seems an odd thing to mention if that wasn't in her mind. I agree with the others; she's pretty dumb to think detergent might stain (if that was the case), but she's also ignorant not to know that colored towels leave dye behind. That's why carpet cleaning products always say to "blot with a WHITE" rag. Y-D-I.

JordyRox 0

Monday 22 June 2009 6:31

EPIC Fail LOL (:

Awesomesaurus 0

Monday 22 June 2009 6:38

Spilled.

Martiansaregreen 0

Monday 22 June 2009 7:00

It actually doesn't say anywhere in here that she was worried about the detergent staining the carpet. It says she spilled it and wanted to get it up... Then only made the problem worse by mopping it up with something that left a stain. Seriously people; read the damn context clues. That's 4th grade English. I do have to admit though that perhaps she should have left out the color of the detergent which is completely misleading when you read this.

LilaBear 1

Friday 26 June 2009 12:12

Um, actually, she does suggest she was scared of the detergent staining the carpet because it says she was "desperate" to get it up, and then she goes on to specify that the detergent didn't stain the carpet but the towel did. If she was never worried about the detergent staining in the first place, she wouldn't have specified that it DIDN'T stain.

PureGold 0

Monday 22 June 2009 7:17

Towels, no matter what color, aren't supposed to do that O_O. How was the OP supposed to know the blue towel would leak blue dye? It shouldn't have leaked ANY dye.