Here's Jalepeno in your eye

So last night I set out to make a Spicy Jambalaya and some homemade cornbread. Easy enough right? Noooooooooooooooooooooooot exactly. So I get all my ingredients going and start the process which entails of course chopping peppers. There are yellow peppers and red peppers and of course my favorite....jalepeno peppers. Now jalepeno and I have just recently begun our love affair. We weren't always so close in years past. Having emergancy gall bladder removal a few years back put the brakes on my passion for spicy food for awhile. But I have regained my tolerance and therefore the spicy food has returned. So of course I was chopping jalepenos to put into my Jambalaya when I made a critical mistake................. My eyes starting watering from the heat of the cooking as I started to saute them (yes I was actually stupid enough to hang my head over the pan). Not thinking...I casually wiped a tear from my eye. Which under ordinary circumstances would have been just fine except I had been chopping JALEPENOS and I had the juice on my fingers and under my nails. I didn't know fireworks came so early in the year. The only word to describe how this felt was &#$*@*&%$#*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anywho.......I don't recommend anyone trying this unless you like extreme pain and temporary blindness. The funny thing was that when it happened the only thing I remembered was that people say when you eat really hot and spicy food to drink milk to cool it down. So yes.............I actually considered pouring milk into my wounded eyes for about half a sec and then dashed upstairs desperately seeking saline. The moral of this story is..............well heck I'm not sure. I thought I would share a hilarious misadventure. And word to the wise.......if this does indeed happen to you, just go ahead and throw that pair of contacts away. It's not worth the few bucks trying to salvage them.