I was at a six-hours lab course today. We spent around three hours trying to synthesize an alkyl halide. All goes well, no troubles. Half an hour before we're done, we're cleaning our place, just do prepare for the final testing of the product. Sooo, I take an erlenmeyer flask with a substance in it, throws it all down the drain and thoroughly rinses it. I go back, and my lab partner is like "dude, have you seen your product?".... and I was like "hmmm, I might have thrown it away". Then I was like "LOOOOOL", and she like "Ohhh maaaaaan".. Then our other lab parner came and was like "guys, wth?".. then we're like "are we going to tell, or pretend we're done and copy answers?". First we're like "screw it, we're copying answers", but when one of our supervisors comes over and asks how we're doing, I'm all like "ehhhhh, cremt.. well, there may have been an, ahh, accident, sort of".. she all like "an accident?" and looks for spilled acids or something. I'm like "there's a slight chance I may have throw away our product...........". she's like.. "OK, clean up and just be done.."... we're like "maaan",
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