My mom had recently redone the kitchen in her house. My mom and her current husband don’t drink. They went to to evening mass I think which left my sister and I alone during the holidays and we wanted to have some wine. We couldn’t find a wine key, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to just push the cork into the bottle, I pushed to hard and the dark red wine splashed everywhere on the cabinets, the appliances, and floor. We cleaned things down quickly and thought we were in the clear, but then we saw the spray on the ceiling. We broke out the magic eraser though this took off some of the off white paint.

We never told her until this past Christmas. Her quote “I always wondered how those spots showed up out of nowhere.”