Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s law

I was giving William a bath last night, when I noticed something peculiar about one of his bath “toys” which is really just the empty container from some Crayola Bathtub Tints that were given to him as a gift. I should mention that William loves pouring water from one container to another and back again - that’s his whole reason for having a bath in fact - so he has a lot of different container sizes and shapes.

Anyway, back to my point. I noticed that this particular container exhibited a very strange behaviour. While most containers with that sort of shape will float upright when filled with almost any amount of water, this container would only float upright when completely empty. In other words, adding anything to the inside of the container causes it to tip over, spilling the contents into the bathwater. It’s a pretty curious thing, so I investigated why that would be the case. What I found is that the container has a “false” bottom and a fairly large pocket of air trapped underneath the contents. End result is that if you accidentally knocked a full/just opened jar into the tub, all 30 bath tablets would always wind up in the water, rendering the water a muddy colour and the tablets used up, instead of sometimes getting “saved by the float” and having just a little splash of water get into the jar.

Now obviously this never happened to me, or you’d have heard about it. It’s just because I kept them in a cupboard out of William’s reach and brought one tablet at a time to the bathtub until they were all gone.

I have no evidence that this design flaw was created on purpose, but when has that ever stopped me from posting crazy conspiracy theories before?

Simpson’s quote of the day: “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. I deride your truth-handling abilities.” - Sideshow Bob