This morning I was sitting in my office, listening to music and banging away on the keyboard like a good little programmer, when I heard a very loud BANG. The first time I heard that–a couple of weeks ago–I was running the dishwasher and thought something in there had made the noise. It wasn’t until one of the other guys came in a few hours later that I found it was a soda can that had exploded in the refrigerator.

So I knew what the sound was when I heard it this morning. What surprised me was how the can exploded. This is the first time I’ve seen the top blown off of a can. Every other exploded soda can I’ve seen had a split on the side somewhere. This one is intact except for the cleanly-removed top. Oh, and the bottom is bulging.

When the last can exploded, we adjusted the refrigerator’s temperature in an attempt to prevent this from happening again. Apparently that’s not good enough. It appears that the freezer vents into the refrigerator, and there’s a spot just below that vent (back, center, top shelf) that gets the benefit of that cold air. So much benefit, in fact, that it’ll freeze a can of Coke Zero.

New rule: no drinks on the top shelf.

Note: No, I’m not the Coke Zero drinker. I prefer the real thing.