Prize Plum

[Waynedear1]

Lovely evening out yesterday, work paid as my retirement gift, good food , free flowing drinks.
I drank a good few, nothing excessive.
I went outside for a vape, in my left pocket, spare juice, in my right pocket eye drops... I obviously put my hand in the wrong pocket while getting the eye drops..

[Super Sonic]

So why have you titled the thread 'Prize Plum'? Is that what your eye looks like, all purply red and swollen? Ouch. Hope it gets better soon!

[sherman]

If ever there was an advert to advocate how stupid smoking in any form is.

[Waynedear1]

Super Sonic said:

So why have you titled the thread 'Prize Plum'? Is that what your eye looks like, all purply red and swollen? Ouch. Hope it gets better soon!

Ah, no, Prize Plum is what a friend calls me when I do something stupid... Like the time I rebuilt an engine but forgot the oil.I

[AB]

I'm trying to picture someone of retirement age vaping, it's an odd one.

[Warhavernet]

Talking about red plums, I do recall a dozy workmate foolishly admitting he mistakenly put his wife's Immac on his itchy man parts thinking it was a soothing cream.

[Doofus]

I still don't understand what happened.

[Johnspex]

Doofus said:

I still don't understand what happened.

He apparently confused the distinctively shaped container of vape fluid with the tiny distinctively shaped bottle of eye drops, and, while popping out for a vape, put vape fluid in his eye.
Must have been incredibly painful. If it actually happened.

[Screenwash]

Saw the thread title and presumed it would be another thread about Keir Starmer..!

[Badda]

Waynedear1 said:

Lovely evening out yesterday, work paid as my retirement gift, good food , free flowing drinks.
I drank a good few, nothing excessive.
I went outside for a vape, in my left pocket, spare juice, in my right pocket eye drops... I obviously put my hand in the wrong pocket while getting the eye drops..

But then you realised once you were able to see the bottle.

[Alex_225]

To make you feel better OP, my nan who's 92 now but was probably 75/76 at the time woke up one morning and popped her eye drops in.

But of course she keeps a similar shaped bottle of super glue in her bedside table because it makes complete sense. Manages to glue her eye lid shut. Off to A&E and told to bathe it and it reopened after several days.

Apparently it's not as common a mistake as people think but not sure if they said that to make her feel better!

[Puggit]

Alex_225 said:

To make you feel better OP, my nan who's 92 now but was probably 75/76 at the time woke up one morning and popped her eye drops in.

But of course she keeps a similar shaped bottle of super glue in her bedside table because it makes complete sense. Manages to glue her eye lid shut. Off to A&E and told to bathe it and it reopened after several days.

Apparently it's not as common a mistake as people think but not sure if they said that to make her feel better!

Acetone (found in proper nail varnish remover) is great for loosening up super-glue, but I'm not sure it's a good idea in your eyes

[_Rodders_]

sherman said:

If ever there was an advert to advocate how stupid smoking in any form is.

Vaping seems even more pathetic when you're not 17.

[iphonedyou]

Apropos of nothing, I recall sitting in traffic and looking over at the works van that was stationary in the lane beside me. The fella, in his sixties, was sucking on a vape that he wore on his neck with a lanyard.

It was redolent of a small child with a dummy clipped to its babygrow.

[Alex_225]

Puggit said:

Alex_225 said:

To make you feel better OP, my nan who's 92 now but was probably 75/76 at the time woke up one morning and popped her eye drops in.

But of course she keeps a similar shaped bottle of super glue in her bedside table because it makes complete sense. Manages to glue her eye lid shut. Off to A&E and told to bathe it and it reopened after several days.

Apparently it's not as common a mistake as people think but not sure if they said that to make her feel better!

Acetone (found in proper nail varnish remover) is great for loosening up super-glue, but I'm not sure it's a good idea in your eyes

Haha true. I'm not sure they advised her on that one in A&E but to be fair to her, although her ears don't work too well she'll sit and watch TV with subtitles and reads them fine with no glasses on. So no long lasting damager haha.