When do you need a second opinion?

[No. 1 son]

This morning I was going to take advantage of the sunshine and use the string trimmer in the front. I got the weedeater out, and going to gas it up. I had the 1 gallon gas for the stihls in the truck, and it has one of those automatic slides on it that keeps it closed until you release that and pull the dispenser. Apparently it had built up some pressure inside it from being in the hot truck (pascal's law), and when I pulled the valve lever it blew gas all over me, into my eyes. 

I ran to the hose bib and flushed out my eyes for at least 3 minutes, maybe more. I felt my eyes and skin and it felt oily, ans I thought I've ruptured something and I'm bleeding, but realized it was mixed gas/oil, and flushed some more. I went into the house, here she was baking a cake. 

I thought I was ok, and asked her if my eyes were red. She said " I've seen them worse." 

Usually she's pretty empathetic, but this was cake day. 

[minx]

Cake makes everything better.

Little Minx had a similar thing happen - kid pooped in the pool at Dixon and she was siphoning the chlorine to shock the pool and it splashed back into her face and got in her eye. Luckily there was an eye wash station right there, and she was smart enough to run to it immediately. Still went to the ER to have it flushed again (better safe than sorry), and stayed away from the siphon for the rest of the summer.

The difference here is that she got no cake. So be grateful that it was just gas and not chlorine, cause gas exposure still gets you a cake.