I woke up at 6am in the bed of a long-haired, bearded pseudo-intellectual who, for all I could tell, had noded all night. I attempted to drive home in the Thunder car through Vancouver's Chinatown. After running a red light due to determined lack of attention, I decided I'd be going much slower as I obviously wasn't awake enough to be driving.
The good thing about having parents in the same area code as you is that in case of emergency, they can be called. For instance, when I spilled a substantial amount of borscht on my rented apartment's carpet, it was quite easy to call up my mother and beg for anything to get beet soup out of my carpet.
To get borscht out of a carpet, first scrape up as much of the soup as possible. Next, dump large amounts of baking soda onto the carpet. This will suck up the moisture and hopefully some of the colour. Vacuum the baking soda off the carpet. Next, place some dry laundry or dishwasher soap on the stain, dry-scrub it with a toothbrush you never want to use again, and hope to god the large purple stain will come out of the carpet. Vacuum the soap off the carpet, attempt to wash the soap up, fail, decide you'll need to steam clean your carpet to get the soap out, and carry on your merry day.