Howdy! I recently had a very interesting experience with The Snot that y'all may find humorous. I was part of the beta test for their new website and got a puck of Yeti Snot out of it. The next week, I place an order for a single sample of Columbian Necktie. The original puck got to me pretty fast, but the sample took forever- almost a month! I found out the poor guy who runs the shop got absolutely slammed with orders when the site went live, and got backed up bad. Well, long story short, I finally got my sample yesterday, along with complimentary samples of Shore Leave and The Snot! Cool! The samples were in cubes, so I decided to grate them and melt them in a double boiler. The Shore Leave and Columbian Necktie got mixed together, since the Shore Leave had such a mild scent. Figured it would help stretch the CNT. That went fine, poured it into a teacup. The sample of The Snot, however... I got impatient. I just put it in the ceramic bowl with the original puck and popped it in the microwave for 30 seconds. I turned around to kill the fire on the boiler, and when I turned back, thick clouds of grey-white vapor were billowing from my microwave. UH OH! I whipped the door open, thinking I had set the soap on fire and it was smoking. Holy mole, was I wrong. It was vaporized menthol! Pure, weapons-grade vaporized menthol! My eyes immediately started running, my nose to my lungs went numb, and I started coughing like I had been tear-gassed (and this is from a heavy smoker!). I fell flat on my back like I had been hit by a freight train full of professional linebackers. SWMBO came out of the bedroom to see me laying on the floor, gasping like a landed fish and crying like I had done a swan dive into a vat of chopped onions. She tried to rush to my aid, then got hit by the dissipating cloud and ran into the bathroom. She came back a few minutes later, eyes and nose streaming. When I told her what had happened, then stared at me and yelled "You nerve-gassed yourself! WITH SOAP!!!" There was no discernible damage to the soap, and it's cooling properties were unaffected. Still, wow-WHEE! I felt like Mr Freeze had given me mouth-to-mouth! On a side note, the sinus headache that had been killing me all day cleared up then and there. I couldn't feel my head AT ALL. Has anyone had this happen to them, or am I the only one who has gassed themselves with shaving soap?
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