A Healthy and Shiny Coat
The vile coconut.
Coconut makes me sick. If I bite into something with coconut in it, I will immediately begin to gag.
The mere smell of coconut makes me nauseous. In fact, anything coconut scented bothers me.
Am I telling you this because I’m a whiny little crybaby? A little bit, but I do have a point.
I was attempting to take a shower at my friend house.
Note: normally I don’t use real names in an effort to protect the innocent, but no one here is innocent.
I stood in his shower, surveying the menagerie of shampoo and hair conditioner bottles that littered the front of the tub. I had only one priority in choosing a shampoo: it mustn’t be coconut scented.
I spotted a small innocuous bottle of green shampoo set off to the side. Green shampoo is likely apple blossom scented, or green tea, possibly something herbal, but it certainly wouldn’t be coconut.
Without checking to see what it was, I confidently applied the shampoo to my hair and began to lather up.
The scent was odd, not at all what I expected. My scalp immediately began to tingle; it must be dandruff shampoo.
The tingling sensation transitioned to a burning sensation. The burning sensation spread to my eyes and nose, and there was a strange metallic taste in my mouth. It certainly wasn’t apple blossom.
As I started to rinse the shampoo from my hair, the burning intensified and it felt like I had gargled battery acid.
I grabbed the bottle to find out exactly what kind of poison I had been scrubbing into my scalp.
Flea and tick shampoo for dogs?
Are you kidding me?
The warning label instructed dog owners to wear gloves while applying the shampoo to their dogs, and to avoid making contact with skin.
Not only was the shampoo all over my skin, some of it had run down to the tender bits.
I grabbed a different bottle of shampoo, squeezed a copious amount into my hand, and began to aggressively slather it over my body.
A stark and sudden realization paralyzed me: coconut!
What insufferable madness is this?
The combination of pesticide and coconut made my stomach to flip like Nadia Comaneci in the 76 Olympics. I began to wretch like a cat hacking up a hairball; something Nadia Comaneci has probably never done.
It was horrible.
I was nauseous the remainder of the day, and everything I ate tasted like someone had sprayed Raid on it.
Lance would point out my hair to people and say, “doesn’t he have a healthy and shiny coat?” Then he would laugh hysterically.
Note: I told you no one was innocent.
“Don’t you read labels?” Lance’s girlfriend scolded.
“I sorry. I didn’t realize there would be a bottle of napalm in the shower,” I responded.
“Don’t be a baby,” she told me. “I use that shampoo on the dog all the time and he never complains.”
I thought this criticism to be unfair. The dog also humps your leg, licks himself in indiscreet places, and eats his poop. I do almost none of those things.
Through it all, at least I know I’m virtually parasite free.
Note: Don’t worry, Henry my tapeworm is fine and doing well.
Nadia scored a perfect 10; my stomach did not.
idiotpruf 
Reminder to Red Panda: Bring non-coconut shampoo with me wherever I go. Also, non-coconut soap, conditioner, shaving cream, detergent, ice cream…
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I only drink non-coconut milk.
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Great post! You have my sympathies that you had to go through so much just to get a great blog post out of it.
I semi-sympathize (simithize?) with you regarding the coconut. I can’t stand the taste of it, though the smell doesn’t bother me.
I also never developed a taste for flea and tick shampoo. However, in a similar situation, I used someones “mint and green tea” shampoo and the effects were similar: burning, gagging, sense of despair. On the plus side, it cleared up my sinuses like no medication ever has!
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Mint and green tea for clear sinuses; I’ll remember that.
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Wow. I never would have guessed you were that delicate.
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Why not?
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You did survive breaking that light bulb.
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But not without deep emotional scarring.
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“I was nauseous the remainder of the day, and everything I ate tasted like someone had sprayed Raid on it.”
I feel the same way after watching clips of Ann Coulter.
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Don’t watch Ann Coulter.
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She was on Maher once or twice and I forced myself through it, reasoning that maybe I was just being closed-minded and prejudiced against the conservative religious right.
Nope, I’m good. They’re nuts.
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That Flea stuff can be strong enough to give an animal a Stroke..&..Nerve Damage.. (it happened to my cat,really)…..I’d see a Dr. real soon…preferably a Vet! lol..
I too can’t stand Coco-nut,makes me gag!
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It would would explain a lot.
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I love coconut … so no you will not get much sympathy from me. A friend of mine hates coconut, too, it is not that unusual.
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No sympathy for the poison I’d rubbed into my face?
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If you use neither your eyes (to read the label) nor your nose (to check the smell) – nope.
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Your compassion is boundless.
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I am such an empathic creature, I know 😛
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At one point I thought, “okay, but at least it’s not coconut.”
Yes, I also find the smell of coconut so offensive that, upon hearing that your skin was (probably) literally burning off, my first thought was at least he doesn’t smell like coconut!
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The coconut was slightly worse than the pesticide.
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Yup, I saw that parasite-free silver lining immediately! lololol! xoM
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Ticks had been a big problem of mine prior to that.
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Nervous ticks?
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My fleas are also nervous.
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Does that make them jittery bugs?
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And slightly paranoid.
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