Something weird just happened can anyone explain?

[Ilovechinese]

Okay I'm a bit freaked out now, a glass just exploded and smashed that was on my table. No one was near it or anything. Does anyone have any explanations what could have caused this to happen?

I used to have mirrored furniture including a vanity table. I would leave my hair straighteners on it as the table seemed to withstand the heat. One day the surface suddenly cracked with no-one nearby - it literally looked like someone took a hammer to it. If the mirrored glass surface wasn’t glued onto the desk, it would have smashed everywhere. It was just the culmination of the heat pressure and probably a hairline crack which led to it giving way.

The bottom dropped out of my mum's china mug once. It was full of tea at the time and she was gently taking a sip! It was fairly old but def not roughly handled as my mum is, as I like to describe her, a delicate little fairy! Thankfully the tea wasn't boiling hot so it was very funny

I had that happen with a few Pyrex things. Cleared them out and have steered clear ever since. Don’t mind things that break and you pick up a few pieces but Pyrex shattered into a fazillion bastarding pieces that we were still finding months later.

Poltergeist

Happened to my Snoopy mug (glass one) as a kid - just on the drainer and bang, smashed. It was about 10pm and kitchen void of people as we were in bed and parents watching telly. It exploded and woke me and brother up, he just laughed and was pleased it wasn't his Snoopy mug!

Our oven door did this? Pieces went up to 10 feet away. Took hours to clear up. Not uncommon.

It's to do with varying surface tensions on different parts of the glass. Priceless ming vases in display cabinets have been known to explode too

I had this happen to the back windscreen of my car when I was driving down a busy road.

There wasn't a stone hit it or anything, it just shattered (passengers in the back agreed it hadn't been hit by anything). It must have been hit previously and had a tiny crack no one saw.

It does happen with glass sometimes - if there's a tiny fracture it can affect the surface tension. There was probably a tiny crack in the glass that you didn't see.

Fay Lady painting nearby?

(Harry Potter reference)

Btw, I used to be an opera singer (million lifetimes ago). I was singing Christmas carols in a quartet (aka musical prostitution) on Christmas Eve. We were all exhausted, utterly over ourselves, each other, and most importantly, the over the damn Christmas carols. We were singing at a VERY ritzy-titzy restaurant, and I feel it’s very important to also set the scene by explaining that we all live in a tropical part of Australia where it is normal to have temperatures hovering around 40’C and humid as a sauna at Christmas - this stupid restaurant had the bright idea of insisting that we dress in full Dickensian costume for the three weeks leading up to Christmas and sing inside and OUTSIDE in the full bloody sunshine in heavy, black, purple and maroon brocade - (sadistic bastards) and tried to charge us every time we wanted a glass of water. On our last night, we were standing artfully arranged on the stairs so the diners could see us and the staff could keep doing their thing, and we were trying to humour ourselves to stay alive just that little bit longer. The tenor who had the pitch pipe, decided to play a prank on me and pitched “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” where I sang a harmony above the melody in the last verse and chorus (already impressively high) three notes higher than written. (Bitch!) Just as I was shrieking out the last line, a waiter wobbled past with two trays of lovely, clean glasses on their way to the bar and “BOOM!” (Honestly, I think one might have bumped against another, but it was immaculately timed!) The restaurant went apeshit with applause, and the tenor realised that his joke backfired against him. Luckily the restaurant wasn’t in a position to complain because we wouldn’t have put it past them to charge us.