As summer was winding down last year, the last full bottle of sunscreen got knocked from the counter and fell to the floor. The lid broke. In the most technical of terms: the little plug part simply shattered off the lid, remaining wedged in the little hole the sunscreen is supposed to squirt out of.
Andrew wanted to throw it away, but I was like, "No way! It's still perfectly good inside!"
I tried to take off the entire lid so that I could perhaps squirt it into an old and more functional bottle, but that was an impossible task. So I moved to plan B. It took me quite a bit of time to pick out the little plug piece from the bottle the first time I did it, but I eventually managed it and triumphantly declared that it would be the first bottle we'd use this summer.
We wouldn't use any other sunscreen until this stuff was gone...
Folks, we have finished off about five other bottles of sunscreen this summer (naturally).
No one ever wants to use this stuff unless I pull out the little plug and squirt it into their hands. The bottle has gotten a little...messy...over the course of the summer because the lid simply doesn't plug up as nicely as it might if it were, say, not broken. So it's lived in a ziplock bag in the pool bag (adding another layer of complication to self-application, further explaining why no one uses it unless I pull it out and force them to).
But I'm happy to announce that it is finally, finally (just about) empty.
Any day now it will squirt its last squirt and we can retire it for good!
And we will all rejoice.
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