Toe Clips & Exploding Tire

[Medianox]

Kalidurga ** After it happened to me, my cat would run from the room whenever I touched the bike pump.** My DH and I just had the experiance of an exploding tire too-
Where I live there are TONS of thorns, on the path, on the roads....everywhere and it seems I can't go for a ride whithout ending up with a flat.
Since I am not a racer and do not care about shaving micrograms of weight off my bike, we ordered some Slime tubes (like I have on my mtb-they have been lifesavers!) in the size for my road bike w/presta valves.
He installs one, then has trouble pumping it up (kinda nice to know guys have trouble with that too), I said it felt right-why oh why we didnt have a gauge with us I don't know (it was in the garage)-but he said, "nah, just one more pump...." and *BANG*!
The tip of the cap that holds the valve had come unscrewed and blew off, sending Slime EVERYWHERE-the ceiling, the walls ( did I forget to mention that we do our bike repair in the family room? We do. lol), the carpet, my bike, all over both of us....it was hilarious! After like half a second we just laughed and wiped it all up.
Took us a couple of days to find a piece of the handpump that had blown off-ended up in with our kids' legos.
Couple of days and a new handpump later, I deflated the tire and started over again and it worked like a charm-I'm sure without much Slime in the tube but so far so good!