Chewing gum removal from your pants

All of us have been to a movie theater. Your so excited about see that new movie you have been waiting to see for months since you seen the first preview.  As you get comfortable in the theater seat you realize something just isn’t right, there is a weirdness in your seat that you have to fix. As you stand up you feel your pants sticking to the seat. Someone has left their chewed up gum on the seat you are sitting in and now it’s stuck to your pants! Ugh this is horrible and now you have to figure out how to perform a bit of chewing gum removal on your pants before the show begins.

This type of thing happens all the time to so many people and they end up throwing their clothes away instead of taking a few minutes to do a little gum removal of their own. To fix this issue quickly you can run to the concession stand and ask the employee for a small cup of ice. Take the ice into the restroom and place one piece of ice on the gum. You will need to hold the ice cube on the bubble gum until the gum has become hard and frozen. It should then just simply pop off. If it will not just pop off try placing a plastic fork, knife or spoon under it to help pry it from your pants. You can get plastic silverware from the concession stand also.

If this does not work for you ask a concession theater employee to heat you a small glass or cup of water. The water will need to be steaming hot. Take the cup of hot water to the bathroom, step into the bathroom stall and remove the pants. Do NOT do this with your pants on as you will burn your skin and that is not something you want to do just for gum removal. Once you have the pants off, then you should pour the hot water over the gum. This will make the gum dissolve and it will then just disappear. While most of the gum will just vanish you might also need to pick off any little pieces that did not dissolve completely from the water. If you have a friend with you ask her or him to take your pants and hold them under the hand dry to dry the spot so you are not walking around with wet pants or sitting in them during the movie.

Whatever you do don’t just throw your pants away. If you can not remove the gum while you are at the movie theater you can always take them home and work on the gum removal when you have other items available that will make chewing gum removal easier from the comforts of your home. Don’t give up, chewing gum removal is usually quite simple and easy to do so don’t throw those new pants away just yet, there is still hope.