Advice for newcomers to Denver

When you open anything fresh from the store -- a bottle, an aluminum can, one of those cans/jars with foil or paper over the opening -- it's a good idea to point said vessel away from you. If it was packaged somewhere other than Denver, i.e. somewhere less than a mile from sea level, the change in pressure will cause the air inside to expand. Which means that when you open said vessel, it might just go, "Pop!" and empty some of its contents all over you.

Even those of us who have been here for a couple of years forget sometimes.

Time to change clothes.