Rude Awakening

[MimzMum]

Well, my hubby got a good laugh at my expense this morning, so I thought I’d share the wealth. (Also hope something like this has happened to someone else so I don’t feel so stupid.)

I have been having less trouble with my allergies lately, so I didn’t take my Benadryl before bed last night. But at about 3 AM I woke up with totally clogged nose and dry mouth to the extremes. *ugh!* So I figured I needed a drink of water and reached for the first bottle I could find next to my bed.

Okay, by now you all know where this is going, right?

I take a BIG swig (half asleep) and suddenly I am bolt upright in bed, , holding my mouth shut and looking for a set of paper towels to spit into…my mouth is burning with sour!!

Yup. I managed to grab the water/vinegar solution that I use on the bunny pens and take a mouthful of that instead of my water bottle, which apparently was not even in the room at the time. I was trying so hard not to just spit it out, as it would’ve gone all over the bed and probably into poor Fiver’s pen as well. (He was jolted awake by my sudden movement and was probably wondering what on earth was wrong with mommy as she’s up in the middle of the night and making strange choking noises.)

I got the vinegar solution out into a bunch of paper towels and had to tear off a second set to finish spitting out the rest. Then I was up and into the bathroom, coughing, sputtering, brushing my teeth and washing my mouth out with Listerine.

It took two hours for me to stop spititng up/smelling vinegar and get back to sleep. I can still smell it this morning and it makes me sick to my stomach. Needless to say, my nose cleared up…the hard way.

Okay, everyone laugh now.

[PeppersMama]

ohhh thats awful!!! The other day i almost had an adult beverage that was in a mountain dew bottle, instead of a mountain dew! lol! and it was lunchtime…im pretty sure that wouldnt have been so great! lol!

[bunnytowne]

oh my goodness. That would wake someone up in a hurry.  I like vinegar on my salad.  But not as a drink. Phew.

Good ol vinegar.

[MooBunnay]

GAH! EW! That must have been groooossss…..good job not spitting it out on the bed! I totally would have spit it everywhere…

[jerseygirl]

Ok – permission to laugh –       BTW: This iconis forever gonna be The Vinegar Face in my mind from now on!

Well! Vinegar does have a 1000 uses and I think you’ve just discovered 1001 – an allergy cure. If anything, you’d be so occupied trying to handle the taste in your mouth you wouldn’t even notice the allergy symtoms! LOL. Hope your day became sweeter!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Oh no-What a rude awakening!!!! Poor Mimz!!!

[Deleted User]

At least there was an allergy-curing bright side!!!!

[DallasDelight]

for a horrible moment I thought you were going to say sour milk!!!! vineager though, YUCK! that must have been absolutely disgusting!

[MimzMum]

Oh it WAS, believe me…. >_< I pucker up just thinking about it. I won't be able to cook/eat hard boiled eggs for awhile. Had to hold my nose just to get the bunny pens clean today.

And I’m VERY careful about my drinking water bottles now, needless to say.

[kimberleyanddarren]

haha aww mimz thanks for brightening my morning hahahaa!

[kralspace]

Oh yuck! talk about morning breath!

that’s so funny, and it’s so bad to laugh, I’m sorry

[Veronica Vigilant]

I’m so impressed you didn’t just spit it out all over the bed (and hubby)!!! That’s what I would have done!

[kimberleyanddarren]

i think i would have 2!

[MimzMum]

I would’ve thought so also, but for some reason it woke me up clearly enough that I managed to just hold it in my mouth and not swallow any, although the smell was quickly overpowering my eyes and nose. Nasty!

Oh it’s something you just all have to try…come on! ^_^ Better than coffee! LMAO!

[Deleted User]

I bet your sinus was clear after that. If that had happened to me I would never hear the end of it from the BF. It would be a non stop lecture on my careless sloppy ways of never putting things away.

[Beka27]

ew. that’s awful, Mimz. i hate how when you clean with it, despite soap, your hands still smell like it for a couple hours. that must have been unbearbale!

[kimberleyanddarren]

yes beka has a point, i sometimes use dettol and the smell is all over my hands for hours its soo eeewww

[MimzMum]

I often have to clean my hands after touching my dogs, they are so smelly, so I use Comet because that smell lingering on my hands is definitely preferable.
But it sends my cat, Q.T. into a tizzy, he come sup and sniffs my hands and rubs his face all over them, then splits at top speed like he was on catnip or something.
I don’t get lectures on housekeeping too often…the hubby knows it doesn’t do any good. T_T

[Deleted User]

Lectures are a vital sign, if I don’t hear any thing time to call the ambulance. All I know is if that had been me, I would have been changing the bedding cause there is no way I would have the mind to hold it till I could neatly dispose of the mouthful.

[kimberleyanddarren]

i think this will be one of those lifetime things where it can be brought up in all arguements lol You: ‘dont YOU call ME stupid!!!’ Your Husband: ‘well you DID drink vinegar’

[Deleted User]

K & D…how true! My friends and family fear my memory. I am ashamed to say I am so guilty of that tactic. So if I dish it out, I gots to take it in turn.  I have had more than my share of mishaps involving toothbrushes and various tubes of toiletries.

[RabbitPam]

***as MM’s eyes bulge with shock and Fiver looks on in horror, Hubby immediately applies oil (10-40) and administers CPR: Carrots Plus Romaine.***

A good salad was had by all.

[kimberleyanddarren]

once i took a chicken out of the pan and there was a big chunk of chicken stuck in the bottom so i picked it out and ate it, i forgot i had already squirted washing up liquid in the bottom so i could wash it easier – EW!

[MimzMum]

Oh believe me, there’s been some STRANGE things consumed in this house! My son had tried both hydrogen peroxide and anti-bacterial soap on his toothbrush. And once told me he’d swallowed some of daddy’s painkillers, which was an instant trip to the ER for blood tests, proved to be just a tall tale, but I can’t tell you how glad I am that he’s not in the single digits in age anymore. I am hoping he has a kid just like him someday, so he’ll know how I felt raising him.

The hubby has had all sorts of nasty stuff ingested: like asbestos blowing off brake pads into his windpipe (when he used to wrench) and anti-freeze blowing up in his face and going in his mouth. I think every ER in the country has a seat reserved for him and a mug with his initials on it. He’s the kind of person that, if a toothbrush was defective it would get stuck down his throat. So I don’t worry about MY I.Q.!

BTW, K&D, that was some NASTY chicken, I betcha! ^_^

[kimberleyanddarren]

haha last time i ate chicken! i went veggie soon after anyway but i dont think i would have eaten it anyway lol

[Deleted User]

MimzMum…your poor hubby! Asbestos! Anti-freeze!! Good Lord! Bet your son never told a tall tale again after that episode. Between the 2 of them you deserve a medal and a lifetime free pass for any less than brainy moments.

[Beka27]

what a pair… gee i wonder where your son gets it from? lol!

but no worries, you done good, so sit back… put your feet, pour yourself a *drink*…. (snicker…)

[Moonlight_Wolf]

When you said you drank from the first bottle you could find I for some reason thought you were going to say you drank Bunny pee in a bottle, my mind did not use the logic that people do not keep Bunny pee in bottles! But if you had, that would be really gross!
Still, vinegar is pretty gross!

[MimzMum]

lolz Moonlight_wolf …. That reminds me of an episode from my high school French class.

Our teacher wasn’t in the habit of making jokes, and she had some stiff rules for class: No eating, drinking or chewing gum were some of the milder ones. Now when you’re a teenager, you simply MUST break one of those at least once.

So there was this girl (not me, seriously) who would bring those little Martinelli’s Apple Juice bottles into class every day. No matter how many times our teacher told her not to.
So one day the teach walks up to her and asks her, in French, “Qu’est-ce que c’est? Une sample d’urine?” (“What is that, a urine sample?”)

We were all rofl for ten minutes straight…’cept for this unfortunate young lady.

I don’t think that girl ever brought apple juice to class again after that. In fact, she took the one in question out of class and poured it out in the nearest garbage can…lolz.

[jerseygirl]

I’m no good with French but I would have deciphered that as “Can I sample the urine?”

Don’t worry Moonlight wolf – my mind went there first too! Reminds me of when I worked in Aged Care and how the men would put there urinal bottles on the nightstand next to their water bottles…………

[Deleted User]

Moonlight….bunny pee popped in my mind first too! glad you were brave enough to fess up first!

[MimzMum]

I have to say, I can’t imagine how one would GET bunny pee into a bottle? I mean….just…HOW?? 0_o

Not that I need to know or anything…lolz.

[RabbitPam]

Yep, I admit it. It was my first thought too.

Of course, WHY anyone would have bunny pee in a bottle, but then we ARE talking about MM….

*ducks quickly as long arm w/ fist swings down from Alaska*

[Beka27]

^^^lol. this thread is cracking me up. you know you’re a bunny slave when… you keep bunny pee in a bottle on your nightstand.

[jerseygirl]

Yes! I’m enjoying it too! It’s been around for about a week and is still right up there in the Lounge, which is quite a feat with the amount of traffic that the Lounge gets.
It’s like there’s some sort of conspiracy operating to keep the thread prominent?  

MM, good on you for being such a good sport! Don’t worry, the day will come when you get the chance to give it all back & and if we whine, you only need say one word:   “VINEGAR”.

Hey Beka, being a CL and all, maybe you could pin it!

[Lightchick]

Wouldn’t that be abuse of power, though?!

[KatnipCrzy]

I have 2 “horror” stories from my Mom-

She got home from college and it was late at night- so she decided to sleep on the couch on the porch rather than make noise going up the stairs.  She drank some Pepsi and then left the can by the couch.  When she woke up in the morning she reached down grabbed the can and got a mouthful of warm Pepsi and a ton of ants!!  The ants raided her Pepsi while she was sleeping….ewww!

And this was a trick she played on one of her friends- I wonder if they were friends afterwards???  She offered them a bottle of whiskey- her friend took a gulp of it out of the bottle and ended up swallowing a mouthful of vegetable oil!   Yeck!

Seriously- either of those would make me yack.

This is one of the funniest things my husband has ever done.  We were at the pet store looking at pet shampoo- he had a 20lb bag of food under 1 arm and with his other hand he took the shampoo bottle that I had opened to sniff.  I handed it to him to smell it and see if he liked it- well the cat food back started to slip when he was sniffing- so his grip tightened on the food and the shampoo.  He squirted pet shampoo in his mouth and all down his shirt.  And rather than spit the shampoo into his hand- he swallowed it- supposedly about a teaspoon full.  That would have made me barf.  I was dying laughing- honestly, I could not help it.  He left me at the pet store to go home about 10 minutes away- to rinse his mouth, get a drink and change his shirt.  This happened about 6 years ago- and it still makes me laugh to type this.  The look on his face was priceless and I about peed myself laughing to hard.  Then he left- and I was there waiting for him to come back and finish shopping- but the whole time I am trying to supress giggles that no one else will understand.

so MimzMum- I could have been worse- at least you were not traumatized in public with loved ones doubled over in laughter.

[MimzMum]

lolz…rabbitpam…”SWING and miss, strike one!” ^_^

Honestly Katnip, I am surprised he came back for you…lolz! Did you guys wind up paying for the shampoo or did you just cap it and put it back on the shelf?

O…M…G…! ANTS & PEPSI?? I despise ants with a passion one would reserve for only one’s most hated adversary.

I had a trail of ants 5 inches wide and 20 feet long go through my childhood home when I was home alone one weekend. I had to find some way to dispose of them and, of course having cats at the time, didn’t want to spray pesticide all over the kitchen, so I think I dumped peppermint extract all over the place and burned the little critters to death.
And I had just seen this old horror movie called Phase IV, which was a kind of killer bees thing, only with ants. *shudders*

The idea of having one of those nasty pests anywhere NEAR my mouth would send me into fits.

And the thing that was the big bait and switch when I was a kid was to give someone chocolate Ex-Lax and tell them it was real chocolate.

[RabbitPam]

*fiver calls to Mimzy & Pip “We got her! We got her! The bait and switch worked! She drank it!!!”* *”Pip replies, “of course she did. It’s her ExLax karma. And anyway, she’s not the brightest bulb in the human fridge. Told ‘ya.” Pip yawns regally and goes back to sleep.*

I know, I know – “SWING and miss, strike two!” ^_^

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