Roasted Nuts

Prologue: Thought I would start the first story out with a bang... This is a story from 3 days ago:

Before 8:00 am I got a call at work. It was Coby and I ask him how he is. He says, "Terrible!" Apparently he had been cutting habaneros (Why at 7:30 am he would be doing that?? I am not sure) He was in the middle of cutting and then had to go to the bathroom. He did NOT wash his hands before he went to the bathroom. So when he called me he told me, "My nuts are burning and I need to go to the hospital! They need to treat me immediately because this is classified as a chemical burn." I say, "Let me just look on the Internet real quick to see if I can find out if there is anything you can do that will help."

I start googling "Pepper Burns" and Coby goes into a frantic rant about how I need to make sure that it treats for the specific habanero he was using because this was no ordinary habanero. I tell him that the treatment I found was for all peppers and chilies. He then proceeds to go into a two minute rant about acidity and other stuff I didn't understand.

What I discovered was that if he soaked his skin in milk for 30 minutes the burn will go away. I tell him, "You need to get a big plastic cup (for his ego of course I said big) and fill it with milk, find a good book to read and go sit in the bathroom and soak 'your friends' for at least a half hour."

Coby's reply, "Its too late Mom, my nuts are FRIED!"


Epilogue: Coby is totally fine. I sent this story to a few friends and this was my favorite response, from a friend who is a nurse in an ER: "I don't even know what to say except that: you are the greatest mom for getting him to use the "BIG cup", you are the greatest friend for sharing this "Nutty" story and you are the greatest citizen for not rushing him to the ER!"