Very near miss this morning - anyone had similar?!

[Grabbner]

I’m not sure how I’ve avoided this hazard so far!

Shocking eyesight, so blindly reached for the toothpaste. Fortunately for me, Deep Heat may be in a tube very like a toothpaste tube, and it may be white like toothpaste, but it smells to buggery!

Most exciting thing that’s (nearly) happened to me this week :)

Any other near misses?

I'm a nurse, once looked after an elderly patient who'd put Olbas Oil in her eyes thinking it was her eye drops! Poor woman was in agony and the smell! She kept saying she could taste it.

I frequently swish my paintbrush in my tea rather than a water jar. It doesn't taste good (the tea, not the water jar).

I once swallowed what I thought was a canesten oral tablet. Turned out it was a pessary. The fizzing gave it away.

My dad once brushed his teeth with Germolene instead of toothpaste! This was over thirty years ago and I still laugh at him about it now!

@EatingIsMyHobby I've done that! Have also sprayed my face with hair spray instead of my setting spray. Wouldn't mind, but the bottles aren't even similar!
One of my best was trying to polish the TV with the Raid. They shouldn't put Mr Sheen and Raid in virtually the same can!
Maybe I should come with some kind of health warning

I started brushing my teeth with germolene once, not nice but rather that than deep heat!

I confused Snufflebabe (like Vicks but for babies) with my lip balm.

I cleaned my teeth with flexitol foot cream once.

It was rather cloying.

I’m always nearly doing this. I can’t read the bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the shower without my glasses. If they’re similar I’m stuffed. I try to get the upside down conditioner now.

I have been known to spray the cat with furniture polish instead of flea spray. He had a lovely shiny coat for days.

Tried to wash my hair with skin lotion

I put acne cream on my down belows once as I thought it was canesten...🤦‍♀️😩

The other day I put ear drops in my eyes.

@willowpatterns - but did it work on the fleas?

I brushed my teeth with Veet once

@ellanwood they'd have had a job to cling on, he was rather slippery

I've nearly done that with deep heat too, when DH left it by the sink. I am deeply allergic to it and didn't even know he had bought some. I binned it and have refused to let him buy any since.

1forAll74, my DM once did that, when her own DM with dementia was driving her up the wall.

Not a near miss, an actual - last week dp sprayed glasses cleaner into his mouth instead of the Vit D spray I got him. It did make me laugh!

I recently drank a mouthful of malt vinegar; standing next to an opened bottle of coke.
Only a mouthful thank goodness. The bottles look totally similar next to each other.

I’ve gone to bed very drunk, woke up in the middle of the night slightly parched. Reached down the side of the bed for my bottle of water, and picked up and necked half a bottle of lemon moisturiser. I threw up so hard I tore the inside of my throat and kept coughing up blood

My mum is quite fond of air spray and would often try and choke us with it as children. Still keeps a can up on the landing.
Went to visit her one time, she was complaining about how dangerous her slippers had suddenly become and she’d nearly slipped down the stairs once or twice. Popped to the loo before I left, found a can of Mr Sheen sitting up there - she’d been liberally spraying it around and effectively polishing the stairs 🙄

Poured toilet cleaner over my work tops this afternoon instead of bleach. Kitchen smells nice

Haven't had a fubar myself yet, astonishingly as I am klutz personified as a rule, but I saw a great viral post on FB about a woman who saw a white rabbit ahead of her on the path during her mandatory walk alone and was thrilled..... she took a photo and approached very stealthily to avoid scaring it over about ten minutes...... to discover a tied up white carrier bag of dog pooh...... did make me LOL as I've lost count of the times when we had a black cat that I have tried to pet or talked baby talk to various items of scrunched up black clothing..... (disclaimer I'm a vintage Goth with dubious eyesight......)

Breakfast a few weeks back. Poured the milk in my cup (not a bad thing) and the orange juice on my cornflakes (that didn’t taste great)

Not quite the same but also once mistook my friends cat for a cushion and sat straight down on it with a thud.

Feeling incredibly bad for those of you who have landed veet in your mouth. That stuff bloody stinks!