Yup. The title says it all. Just be careful around thinner. Uh-huh.
...oh. Right. Well...it happened as a beautiful, sunny day was drawing to a close; the sunset glowed from behind the hill - blablabla, and I had just finished helping mummy dearest paint some shelve-thingy out on the terrace. I was clearing up, and was washing the brushes down with it. Just as I was scrubbing the brush, I flicked it by accident and some of it got on my face. Big deal, I thought. It's just cool liquid. I brush it off my nose and finish up my job...and seconds later my lips, which i had neglected to wipe in my haste (they were fogging the neighbourhood, I had to go indoors), were burning like there's no next Tuesday and wiping seemed to hurt more than soothe (thinner evaporates quickly. Rubbing a dry cloth on dry skin, as far as I know, does NOT ease burns). So i spend the next Goodness-Knows-How-Long sniffing and sniffing and sniffing back tears and sniffing and sniffing and - well, you get the idea. Still hurts like a motherf*cker, thank you. Haih. Life's one big blister, it is.
p.s.: the cold compress only made it worse. stupid me.
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