Sunday, July 23

Color me pissed, and blistered


This is what a chemical burn starts out as. Kick back, grab a beverage, I'll turn my pain into your entertainment, (i.e. the airplane story).
one of my duties at work is to find, and try out new plant vendors. So lately we have started looking at some plants from the little guys, ma and pa growers here local. alrighty then, cut to me unloading the first shipment on a blistering 103 degree Texas afternoon. Pretty plants, pretty stock, what could grow, I mean go wrong. Now cut to me in the 103 gegree heat having an itching fit that would rival a grand maul seizure. My arms dam near burst into flames, and not just the fat girl friction on a hot day rash, I'm talking BURN, of the screeching hopping burning kind. After aloe, benydrl, multiple lotions, alcohol, peroxide, 3 different soaps, I was still all aflame. I decided to call the grower. Our conversation is as follows:
me: I am on fire, did you spray your plants with something?

plant vendor: yeah, sure we bomb all the trucks before they ship, why?

me: I am on fire, my skin is burning.

plant vendor: ohhhh.....(long pause) let me get that chemical name for you.

Needless to say, the new, young , baby company is amending their spraying policy due to my unfortunate sweltering OOZING flesh. I called poison control, because a couple other employees had mild reactions, but oh no not me,I had a big reaction, and what is the cure, wash good and let time heal. So in the mean time I look like a leper fresh from the colony, and today the blisters are breaking. yum. I wonder if other people have these weird random events happen. I suppose so. The moral is: tell a fool if you're gonna poison shit!!!