I'm amazed you dismissed the posts about moving out, and kept the posts about asking a 90 year old man to will you the house when he dies. Do any of you realize asking that is unbelievably tasteless?

Yes. I don't dump my pets when they become inconvenient.

I'm a chef. The chemicals you reference are specifically referred to as "hazardous chemicals," and they're to be stored in a completely separate room from any foods. That is a federal health code standard for any food service operation. So, yeah, the language/classification of a "chemical" DOES matter.

I made this the other night. Really I took one cork out of my massive sparkling wine collection, shoved various tools into it to make a hole and placed an air plant in said hole. But I love it!

I agree. DiHydrogen MonOxide is often fatal if inhaled.

Pro-tip: responding to a story with "who cares" is kind of a dick move. Have fun not eating there, but go look at the comments on this post if you're really curious about whether people care about this story.

Whatever it is, make it sting, cause it should be the last word from you he ever hears.

"most chemicals are lethal when swallowed."

They also have arancini aka deep-fried breaded balls of rice, cheese and other various fillings (tomato sauce, spinach, ragu, ham, eggplant, etc.) Nothing tastes better than thin feels, my ass!

Well, the language you choose to use is incredibly imprecise and perhaps you should consider that instead of lecturing someone that clearly knows better on what you think the word "chemical" should mean.

"I've never been around this chemical or ever worked in this environment, but I'm going to go ahead and assume the employees are just idiots."

Toxic chemicals. Dangerous chemicals. Harsh chemicals. Any of those would be better than just "chemicals."

That's a good point, actually. If I had two jars of white crystallized substances on the counter I would probably think one was sugar and the other salt. Not one was sugar and the other one lye.

"I think I drank acid,"

Everyone knows you need TWO labels to really mean it.

I don't think you can call the employee dumb for that. They were in a kitchen, working with food. They were probably testing to see if it was salt or sugar. It's outside the bounds of credulity to think someone would leave lye in a kitchen like that.

"Hmmm. This container is labeled 'Lye,' but there's only ONE label on it, not two. Perhaps I should taste it just to make sure..."

I don't think you're an anomaly. My dad has has received millions of dollars of state of the art cancer treatments and surgeries over the last 13 years, something that we would never have been able to afford in the U.S. He finds it a great comfort to sit in that waiting room at his world-class cancer treatment center…

Of all the chemicals you could possibly have anywhere around food or food prep areas, Lye ranks in the top ten of "oh FUCK NO". It's insane that the employees were allowed to handle it so casually with no oversight or training into what it is.

I really hope this will include Caroline Ingalls screaming at Charles, "Fuck you! I am not getting back in that wagon, and going to some other god-forsaken hell hole to kill myself building another goddamn log cabin because you can't read a property map! FUCK THAT!" And then she gets drunk and slams drawers and…