A Story with a Moral

On Friday I decided to clean my shower. I sprayed it down with Limelite, which is supposed to be good for removing soap scum, and started scrubbing. Well the Limelite wasn’t doing quite the job I wanted, so I poured some Comet with Bleach on it. When I did this it made a hissing sound and some fumes rose up, (which should have been a clue to stop) but I just kept on cleaning. About an hour and a half later, I started having trouble breathing and a pain in my chest. I was home alone and wasn’t planning on going into work that day, but because I didn’t want to die all alone where no one would know what happened to me, I decided to go in. When I got there I told Mike about it and he said if I was worried then I should go into Instacare. That seemed a little much, so I just called Poison Control instead. I told the guy my story and asked him if I was going to die. He said yes I was going to die, but not because of this. :-) He told me in the future, I shouldn’t mix Clorox with anything. The nice thing about it was he told me Poison Control was going to call me the next day, which they did, just to make sure I was ok. Isn’t that nice. So… the moral of this story is: Don’t mix Clorox with other cleaning detergents. However, I’m sure most of you already knew that.