TIFU by making curry rice and pepper spraying my apartment [L]
This just wrapped up (at least, I HOPE it's all wrapped up).
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It all starts with trying a new recipe for spicy curry rice. The detail here is that the curry calls for minced habanero peppers. Well, at some point during the process I got a little juice on my hand, and then on my face, and then in my eye....
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At first it only stings a bit, and I ignore it. I figure I hadn't actually gotten anything in my eye and it was just fumes from the cooking peppers. WRONG. I hit a breaking point and all of a sudden I'm in a lot of pain and can't open either of my eyes. There are sharp knives all over the kitchen (including near the sink) and I can't see.
I get out of the kitchen, not thinking too straight, and make it to the bathroom to try to rinse my eyes. That just makes it hurt MORE. Starting to panic a bit (thank God the stove wasn't on), I manage to get Siri to call my parents (remember, I can't see at this point), who are chemists and are used to dealing with nasty chemicals in the eye.
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My dad gives me instructions for making crude saline without access to measuring cups or, you know, eyesight (pinches into a waterbottle basically). I stumble to my table to get the salt shaker and bump into something...then I hear a crash and a cracking noise. I had left a hard plastic pot lid on the table, which I (in my blindness) had knocked onto the carpet, where it shattered.
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So, to recap. At this point I am blind, in a lot of pain, there is food and sharp objects all over my kitchen, and there are shards of broken plastic (not glass at least) working their way into my carpet. Can things get worse from here?
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Yes.
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I ended up standing under the shower for 20 minutes until things stop hurting and I can see again. Now it's time to pick pointy stuff out of the carpet! My vacuum won't pick it up and I don't have gloves, so I spend half an hour doing it bare handed. I pick up plenty of little nicks and cuts, which is no fun, but whatever. Then I go to clean up the kitchen.
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Now, doing the dishes is never fun. And soapy water when you have cuts also sucks. But doing the dishes, when the dishes have capsaicin all over them, and you have cuts on your hands, takes it up to 11.
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The cherry on top of this shit sundae is that the curry rice wasn't even good. No taste.
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TL;DR: Got hot pepper juice in my eye while cooking. Stumbled around apartment blind and broke a lid. Then had to get cuts all over my hands picking up the broken bits.