E-Liquids are NOT Eye Drops: PSA

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So, you have seasonal allergies something awful and live on Visine. You've seen a Visine bottle right? Small, round, drop tip. You know what I'm talking about.

Let's make up a hypothetical story.

Some allergy suffering idiot is watching a movie at home while talking on the phone to his good friend. Maybe some Internet surfing is involved as well. A lot of multitasking and not much lighting, because who watches movies with the lights on? Said allergy sufferer is also into vaping and has a few 10ml e-liquids bottles sitting around. Do you see where this (completely fictional) story is going?

Let's call the allergy sufferer Zeffer because that's a stupid fake name. In this fictional story, Zeffer is concentrating on many things, but certainly not on the small Visine bottle he keeps on his end table, in the same exact spot, everyday. Zeffer gets one helluva allergy attack and reaches for the bottle while talking on the phone and watching tv in the dark.

"ahhhh" Zeffer probably thinks to himself as he takes the cap off the Visine bottle. "This is going to feel so good when I drop these suckers into my itchy, burning eyeballs." So Zeffer squeezes the bottle into his right eye.

SQUIRT

"That's awfully strange." Zeffer says to himself "those little Visine drops came out fast. Whoa, jeez, and they burn a lot more than usual."

1 second passes

"OH JESUS GOD IN HEAVEN HOLY HELL MY EYE IS ON FIRE AND SWOLLEN SHUT PLEASE KILL ME!!!!" is something Zeffer might have screamed in terror upon realizing he can't see because he just dosed his eyehole with 18mg e-liquid. That really sounds like something he would say (in this completely fabricated) story.

Temporarily blind, writhing in unspeakable pain and born incomprehensibly stupid, Zeffer is now thinking two things 1) What's the number for 911? and 2) God I hope this doesn't make the evening news.

After 30 minutes of flushing his eye, Zeffer is probably very uncomfortable, very scared and still very stupid.
After an hour, Zeffer probably has a blood shot eye but has regained total vision and avoided a trip to the ER as well as the evening news. Unfortunately, this poor, poor, ridiculously stupid (fictional) character may never regain his pride.

What have we learned from Zeffer?
Only that he is unfathomably feeble minded, and Darwin was right.
 
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Temporarily blind, writhing in unspeakable pain and born incomprehensibly stupid, Zeffer is now thinking two things 1) What's the number for 911?

True story when I was still teaching High school I got drafted by the principal to run the scoreboard for the basketball game. During the game a kid broke his leg in a way that looked very much like that young man in the playoffs this year. It was BAD.

The Kids dad really did yell at the top of his lungs whats the number for 911. It does happen.
 

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Lol. Well fictional "Zeffer" should not feel too bad. I was on vacation with my family as a kid and witnessed my father brush his teeth win bengay. Poor old dad.

So fictional, hypothetical "Zeffer", who's totally imaginary pride was wounded by the misuse of pretend juice, it happens to lots of people.
 

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I am not gonna laugh at Zeffer because the thought of vision being threatened is too scary but loved your story about what happened to him! That's really smart and something even us non fictional folks should keep in mind because one absent minded moment can happen to us all no matter how mindful we might be the majority of the time. I could write a story about a character named LarsFoot who accidentally took an extra concerta (poor Lars has severe ADHD) and thought it was gonna be her last day on earth and had that same disconnect between 911 & the number. Luckily Lars lived to tell the tale but now has to organize her pills so that never happens again. So glad Zeffer came through OK... maybe you should write him having a bowl of ice cream to chill out and feel better. :)
 

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this more less happened to me!, but it was a weird accident
quoted from my thread
hi guys just wanted to post about my first accident after a bit more of a month on vaping.

I was in a hurry and needed to fill my kanger t3 but wanted to clean it first to get the old flavor out. so after cleaning with running water every part I took a 7ml 24mg bottle to fill but my hands were still wet so upon squeezing the bottle flew off my fingers with the tip hitting directly into my eye! I immediately felt a huge burning sensation so i submerged my head on the water to try and rinse it off as soon as possible, after about 10 minutes of rinsing my eye was really red and i felt a bump inside my eye for about 30 minutes more, the strange thing is that for the next hour or so i didn't feel the urge to vape, I guess i got my nicotine fix directly into the eye
(I REALLY DON'T RECOMMEND THIS IN ANY WAY AND WILL BE MUCH MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME)

gladly after an hour everything with my eye was back to normal
 

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A girlfriend and I were at my house for a chick-flick movie night back in the day and her hubby was home with their daughter since he and the baby were both sicks as dogs. My phone rings and her hubby is on the other end with the baby screaming in the background. He asked her what the number was for 911 cause he accidentally put his Icy Hot for the aching muscles on the baby's diaper rash trying to do it in the dark. Needless to say, night was cut short and there was a lot of baby-cuddling going on.

Disclaimer: Said baby is now a healthy, married 25 year-old beauty with no scarring other than emotional from us telling her the story. :D
 
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