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08-15-08

The Baby Powder Incident and Adventures in Poison Control

The baby Powder Incident, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

I was returning emails and smelled the faint odor of baby powder in the air. I called D.
S: please tell me you didn’t leave the bottle of baby powder where they could reach it.
D: ahhhh.
Door opens, two ghosts come out. I grabbed the camera. The bottle in the fifth image is empty, the particles were just in the air. Then it hits me…that can’t be good.

It’s all fun and games until Poison Control gets called. After 10 minutes of “what’s your name, you number, you waist size” I finally got my answer: watch eyes and breathing for an hour. Now that I am on “America’s Worst Parents” list…

Over and out.

4 Comments on “The Baby Powder Incident and Adventures in Poison Control”

Nancy

Oh no…that’s terrible. Funny..but terrible! I like how you grab the camera and THEN call poison control! ha ha! I probably wouldn’t have even thought to call them in the first place.

08-15-08 » 5:57 pm »
shell

Yeah, my first thoughts were “OMG, I remember doing this to my mom (with flour), she’s gonna want to see this” she was one of those “one day you’ll have kids just like you” type of people. I wanted to prove to her she was right. THEN I remember hearing that talc was linked to asthma, so being paranoid mommy I freaked.

08-16-08 » 4:42 am »
Kristin

So exactly how long did it take you to clean this up??

09-04-08 » 9:56 am »
shell

Yeah, way too long. We are still finding it around the room and it smells like ti (which could be worse)

09-04-08 » 2:16 pm »