Tuesday, September 09, 2008

AIGH!

I'm fighting some sort of nasal/sinus/allergy ooginess. In an attempt to keep myself comfortable, I went to the store to get some saline spray. I just grabbed the first one I saw, which was a store brand, because saline is saline, right?

Well, yeah, but packaging is, apparently, not packaging.

I had some errands to run, and when I got back to my desk, was feeling a little stuffy, so I opened my saline, unwrapped the "sealed for my protection" plastic band, and tried to squirt some up my nose.

THIS bottle of saline apparently has a feature where if you try to squirt it up your nose, the squirting mechanism immediately becomes clogged, so that as you squeeze instead of saline coming out the nozzle, the entire nozzle comes out of the bottle and saline sprays EVERYWHERE.

Yep, everywhere. Now, to be fair, I DID get some in my nose. But also in my hair, all over my face, on my computer, on my OTHER computer, on the wall of my cube, on my file cabinets, on the papers on the OTHER side of my cube, and so on.

Hmph.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

She's right! It's everywhere! I've seen it in person. She's got damp hair, a wet and stained shirt and her fellow co-workers are laughing!