And in the "By all that is holy how can you be that stupid category?!"

[sparkindarkness]

Me: *reaches for drink*
Brother: NOOO! *snatches bottle* DON'T drink that!
Me: There's not THAT much sugar in it, thank you *snarks*
Brother: It's chemical from work *in a tone of voice that suggests this should be obvious*
Me: *blink* waaait? Let me get this straight, correct me if I'm wrong... but you have decided it's a GREAT idea to put INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH CLEANING CHEMICALS in a bottle marked "Apple Tango" and leave said bottle in the KITCHEN?!
Brother: Where else do you put cleaning stuff?
Me: I fear for our shared genetics.

Comments

[elrohana.livejournal.com]

Euthanasia, now, quickly, before he breeds.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I seems to be a sound policy of culling oneself from the herd if one is deficient mentally, just consider having 20 bottles of toxic chemicals and one bottle of fruity goodness and you have to remember which is the right one or choose well. Just think, their kids *can* go play in traffic...walk through mine fields, visit London and not get their pocket picked and stroll through Gunchester with out fear!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

See I suggested this but my parents unreasonably objected

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

Your brother usually lives alone, yes? Please say yes.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Off and on... hje assures me he is not normally a threat to cohabitees. I am not so sure

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

look carefully - do you see a film crew recording the opening scenes of an episode of casualty in your house?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

If they are then I'm going to do some severe arse kicking for hiding the hot doctors

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

.............was he dropped at birth?

at least it's not contageous? =D

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Mother assures me she never dropped him, took drugs or was constantly drunk during the pregnancy. I have my doubts.

One can hope not, but I fear. Suppose some of my genes are that stupid *is afraid*

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Ack!

Why, oh God, WHY...

If I put a Deadly Chemical in a drink-bottle, I'd draw, in permanent marker, all over the label the skull & crossbones motif, with a layer of skulls around the top. ::sighs::

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I would remove the label and replace with my own. To leave it as apple tango-y goodness? No no no

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a case I worked on during my ER rotation in med school.

This event happened near Christmas (yes, that does play a role in it). Turns out a family's car's radiator had a slow leak which they couldn't get fixed at the time. So they had to keep antifreeze in the car to top it off now and then. The father of the family thought it would be a good idea to pour some in a 20 oz Mellow Yellow bottle and keep it under the seat. Now, this family was addicted to Mellow Yellow and purchased large quantaties. So, one day when the son helped carry in groceries, he spied the bottle under the seat and helpfully took it inside and placed it in the fridge.

Later that day, Mom was hungry, so she made herself a sandwitch, got out some chips and fished out a drink. Guess which bottle she grabbed.

She poured herself a glass and used it to chase a handfull of chips. She thought it tasted a little off, but couldn't tell exactly why from the salty chips. A second sip and the light dawned. Said sip was spewed all over the kitchen and she rushed to the hospital.

Fortunately, one small drink of antifreeze is not enough to harm an adult human. We checked her labs to be sure and, since the treatment for antifreeze poisoning is ethanol, told her to go home and have a couple beers.

When we asked her how she didn't know something was off from the start since antifreeze is GREEN and Mellow Yellow is, well, yellow, she said "I thought it was a special holiday version."

Lesson for life: Never store dangerous chemicals in bottles labled for human consumption or near substances for human consumption.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, why why why do people do this? Surely it's the greatest common sense known to man? Poisons and food should not be mixed. It's THAT simple?!

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

How much longer is Brother staying with you?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

opefully next month his house will be fixed and I cna have my space back *prays*

[allthepettylies.livejournal.com]

My mom does the same thing, all the time. She put bleach in a sprite bottle one time and I was literally about to drink it ( I had a cold and couldn't smell it) when my dad saved my life by snatching it away.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I don;t know why they can't just keep the things in the original bottles - the nice ones that scream "drink me and die!"

[allthepettylies.livejournal.com]

Because that would be too easy...

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

Jesus wept, they were making public service announcements not to do that kind of thing when I was five. Your brother isn't just away with the fairies, he's away with the orcs, balrogs and rumpelstiltskins, too.

[lalajia.livejournal.com]

Best. Comment. Ever ):

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I am utterly depressed that they needed to make public service annoucnements about it. Is there no common sense in the world?

[seryan.livejournal.com]

Please tell me that the aftermath to this was Brother being beaten soundly about the head and shoulders with said bottle?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Oooooh no, that's what haddocks are for

[beladibaby.livejournal.com]

I think I fear more for your continued health than your shared genetics with said brother. Wonder what else he's stored and where?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I have asked moooost insistently and he assures me the chance of future poisioning is much diminished. i am suspicious

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Words fail me.

When I was a toddler, a friend of my mother's lost a kid in exactly this way. And one of the things we teach kids in home safety classes is neverneverNEVER put non-foods in a food container.

It's just beyond stupid.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It just amazes me that people do it. I mean, unless your name os Borgia or you are preparing food for your rich aunt Mildred, why would anyone mix poison and food?

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

Show your brother this post and the comments, and while he's leaning over to read them on the computer, give him an almighty whack across the head with a haddock.

That might teach him.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I've already worn 3 haddocks out on him.

SO fasr I've found a week of dropping loud comments about "do i need a FOOD TASTER for this meal?" Or "I'm looking in the fridge, storing any biological weapons next to the silversidem beef?" at every possible opportunity. Remember, a point isn't made until you've beaten someone to death with it :)

[makarov.livejournal.com]

sadly, thats how WAY TOO DAMN MANY accidental poisonings happen

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

And it's so DUMB. Really, anyone with a 10th of a brain should know better

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It sounds like you share nothing.

Did you know that 99.9999 percent 'perfect' means that 414 babies went to the wrong parents? That's using 4,138,349 births, US data for 2005

You should point this out to them. ;)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

See, I would if it weren't for our family's extremely powerful genetic stamp. Even when we look nothing alike (and it's hard to think of 2 kids that were and are less physically similar) you can still pick bits of our mother and father out of both of us. Our whole family is like that, we were our ancestry clearly on our faces and it's impossible to doubt which parents spawned us.

Unfortunately.

Of course, ic ould go with Kami's theory - dropped repeatedly as a small child.