9.19.2006

please note...

inhaling toxic fumes, even if you can't smell them, makes you very spacey.

posted by emily @ 5:14 PM   6 comments

6 Comments:

At 8:14 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Like toilet bowl cleaner and windex...not a good combination...the toilet was smoking

 
At 9:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

One time, my friend Michael and I were cleaning up the production lab where we worked. To make things the cleanest we could possibly make them, we used clorox. Clorox is great for cleaning up places like labs because it kills all the conaminates using the wonders of high concentrations of chlorine. Happy as could be, Mike and I put a shot of clorox into the bottom of the mop bucket. As I whistled a happy tune, Mike turned on the water. To help us rinse down the lab afterwards, we had attached a spray nozzle to the end of the hose. With a huge, dumb grin on my face, I pointed the nozzle into the bottom of the mop bucket and fired. YEAH! Hot water hit the clorox and began mixing. But, OH NO, what's this?? A big cloud of something is billowing out of the bucket! Now perplexed, but still attempting to whistle, I take another breath. WOW! My lungs feel like their dissolving...maybe that's because they are. I look at Mike, and it looks like he's coughing real bad, wierd. We look at each other, and at the now gigantic cloud of chlorine gas, and decide that we had better run like heck to get out of the lab before we died :). We ran and ran, coughing like a couple of volkswagen beetles making the ascent into the Rocky Mountains. There's the door! Run, Mike, run, we're almost there! AHHH, fresh air. Hey look, Mike is coughing so hard he can barely breathe because his lungs are partially filled with the fluid created by the chlorine gas dissolving the lining of his lungs. ME TOO! I can only whisper and and take tiny breathes, or I cough so hard my feet hurt. What a day, sure can't get any better for $8.00 and hour.

 
At 9:58 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

yeah... i hear it isn't too good for your brain cells either!

 
At 9:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I learned that if you need to use a lot of rubber cement (say, to cover a 6' tall stack of cardboard boxes with white paper to appear as a skyscraper frantically, after realizing that you, in fact, can't build a proper tube skeleton and skin & such in an afternoon, or to paste about 150 words/concepts onto a posterboard interconnected by weaving lines to illustrate interconnectedness in a book (and we got the only A on that project with the confusing lines, because the book was quite confusing & the teacher liked the confusion on the poster)), USE THE CHEAP STUFF.

Expensive rubber cement apparently includes things that make you sick if you breathe too much.

Cheap rubber cement just gets you high.

The poster project was a lot more fun than the skyscraper as a result.

-=Russ=-

 
At 4:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, every comment of Afraid of the Water comes to my e-mail. As I started reading some of these comments, I thought, "Emily, what did you do!?!?!?!!!!"

Funny that I knew it would be an Emily post and not a Christy post...

Wendy (for some reason I can't remember my password)

 
At 7:39 PM, Blogger emily said...

yes wendy this is a very emily post. i was in my painting studio and someone who was working with oils had really bad solvents. their rag was soaked and i guess you could smell it in the entire basement of design because other teachers were coming in and asking about it. the really sad part of this story is that i was in the room next door but because of my sinus infection and allergies i couldn't smell anything. i just felt the effects of breathing it in for 2-2 1/2 hours.

 

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