Will It Melt??????

Above is a video of one of my favorite internet series, “Will it Blend?” What is it? It’s a bunch of short clips where they put various things in the blender to find out if they will, in fact, blend. It’s quite entertaining.

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel or anything, besides, my blender’s a piece of crap and wouldn’t blend much of anything, let alone the afore-shown iPad.

What I do know,  though, is that I have inadvertently created my own variation of this in my car, called “Will it Melt?” By “Will it Melt?” I mean it did melt and by inadvertent I mean I didn’t intend to perform said science experiment.

So, what have we recently learned will melt?

Crayons. Yep, colored wax that all toddlers can’t seem to live without will melt when left in a purse in a hot car. I don’t know why I didn’t think they would melt, after all, they are nothing but wax, but I was rather surprised when I opened up Munchkin’s pencil pouch o’ entertainment at a restaurant and all the crayons I had meticulously stolen from dinners past were nothing but a giant, waxy mess. The ones that didn’t melt completely softened so much that the slightest touch bent them in more ways than Gumby.

Deodorant. Secret’s big secret – don’t leave it in a hot car. It apparently melts, and then hardens back into a solid eventually. What’s funny about said new solid state is that it looks just like the pre-melted state, only it crumbles like feta cheese. (Whoa, there’s a pretty picture – put some feta under your arms in the morning!)

Gummi Worms. This isn’t really a surprise. We actually used to put Sour Patch Kids in the console of the car during the summer because they were better after they were hot (I don’t know why – it could be because they were softer, or the heat concentrated the sour flavor, I’m not sure – but don’t knock it till you try it). What was cool, though, about the Gummi Worms was the super-awesome stained-glass-looking mass they created.

Yankee Candle Tarts. This actually is not something I learned this summer. I actually learned this the summer I worked at Yankee when people would return jar candles they left in their cars, surprised it melted and re-solidified in a funky mass. But a customer actually gave me the trick that you take a couple tarts, put them in a baggie under your seat, and you’ve got a great car freshener. The baggie protects the interior (just in case there’s a puncture in the tart wrapping), and it’s stronger than any of the Car Jars we sold. See, not all customers are idiots. (Though, I wouldn’t mix all the scents shown in the picture. That might not be a cool scent, unless you want your car to smell like a Yankee Candle store times, like 1000.)

I wonder what else I’ll be able to experiment with during this heat wave.