It's Raining, It's Pouring...in the chemistry lab!

This week in lab we did distillations, where you run water through your set-up. Tubes came loose once when one group turned on their water so water was shooting out everywhere. After that, I backed up every time a group turned their water on for the first time. Then a group forgot to hold their tube while it drained water into the sink and a tube was flying in the air like a snake, shooting water everywhere. Cries of "What do we do? What do we do??" were heard. I answered them backing away from the lab rain, "Turn off the water!" Later a similar incident occured, but this time the group remembered that turning off the water, turns off the water shooting across the lab. It was a long lab period; I left wet and tired.