SuperGlue is, well, SUPER!

SuperGlue is, well, SUPER!

We've had a stack of broken stuff laying on the counter in the kitchen for, oh, six or so months. At first it was just a small refrigerator magnet. Then, a small brown ceramic unicorn. A ceramic elephant ring holder, painted for me in wildly variegated shades of green by my four year old soon joined the pile. A candy dish, painted by my 9 year old. It's a combination of children who love to go to ceramics class with Nana, and clutzy children and mom. I've been waiting for hubster to glue them, and finally went and got some SuperGlue and did it myself.

Man, is that stuff smelly, and messy. The ring holder and the ceramic unicorn, as well as the magnet, went well. I glued the candy dish together, and managed to glue it to a napkin. Ok, no big deal. Then I realized that one of my fingers was stuck to another. No big deal - I'll just pull.....Oh, ow ow ow!!!! Duh. It says on the back of the pack NOT to do that. Nail polish remover works well though, and the reason I know that little tidbit comes from an encounter the hubster had with SuperGlue.

He wears a bridge in his mouth, thanks to an encounter he had with a fire hydrant when he was ten. It's his front upper four teeth. He was in the process of having a new bridge made, and was wearing a temporary one. It was hitting his lower teeth and bugging the crap out of him, so he was trying to bend it up a bit, because it was acrylic, and should be flexible, right??? He was pushing on it, and it popped right out of his mouth. Greeaaat. He's got to work in about, oh 4 hours - he's a night owl - and he has no front teeth. While the bridge was out, he had the bright idea to try to bend it up, just a smidge, so that when he put it back in, it would be more comfortable. Snap. Now he was dealing with two sections of the bridge, not one. It broke right down the middle.

He grabbed the SuperGlue, applied it to the sections, and popped it up to his gums. then he realized that his fingers were glued to the bridge, and then glued into his mouth. How he ever did this, I'll never know, but he tried many many different things to get the glue off. Finally, in desperation, he soaked a q-tip in polish remover and swabbed around in his mouth, until his fingers came loose.

Moral of this story - leave the SuperGluing to the experts.