Wednesday, September 8, 2010

You Can't Be Too Careful

I’ve been accused of reading the most ridiculous things, just for the sake of reading. And I confess that it’s true. I’ve been known to read things like the fine print on the Special K box if somebody else is hogging the newspaper. (I’m not mentioning any names, but CoTU does come to mind…) That’s not even bad—I’ll read the tag on the bath towel if I’m bored in the bathroom.




Which brings me to these words of wisdom, yes, straight from the tag on the bath towel in my daughter’s hall bathroom: Do not use near source of ignition. Really.

As if I had been pondering taking the towel to the nuclear power plant, or the open flame at the local Propane Is Beautiful Festival. Yeah. That’s a real concern, so it’s a good thing that they took the time to make the tag say that. And it’s even better that I took the time to read it. Now if I’m actually dumb enough to let my towel catch fire in the welding plant, or when my neighbor lights his grill with charcoal lighter fluid, maybe I can’t sue the towel company for criminal negligence.

Or maybe I still can…

Posted by Leah Rubin at 5:00 AM
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9 comments:

  1. Susan R. MillsSeptember 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    You never fail at making me laugh! I read crazy things too.

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  2. LynnSeptember 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM

    I read the tags on my towels after I brought them home and they said, "dry clean only"

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  3. LynnSeptember 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM

    You can see them here.
    http://itsajulything.blogspot.com/2009/07/now.html

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  4. AmandaSeptember 10, 2010 at 5:23 AM

    I read that kind of stuff too. That's how I found out that the stuff I put on my hair to help keep it straight when I use my flat iron is highly flammable. At least my hair didn't catch on fire before I had read that.

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  5. bluntdeliverySeptember 12, 2010 at 10:54 AM

    wandered across your blog, and i gotta say... i luuuurve it!

    rock on girl. congrats on the writing award, and you dont look a day over a hundred so don't sweat it!

    j/k OF COURSE

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    Ha! I've read all the tags of my towels, medicine labels, toothpaste tubes while relaxing in the bathroom. I find it very difficult to just sit there staring at the wall.

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  7. Kristy @LoveandblasphemySeptember 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM

    I also read tags on towels! I also read all the different bottles of things in the bathroom. Guess I need to get some magazines in there, eh?

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  8. A 2 ZSeptember 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM

    I'm the same way. If I'm bored I'll read anything I can find. Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic I'll re-read the same billboards over and over so that my mind stays awake....

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM

    I love warning tags. The sad part is that at some point someone has had one of those towels near a source of igntition, hurt themselves, sued and WON because the towel didn't tell them not to. That's how most of those insane warnings come about. "But, Your Honor, the hair dryer tag didn't say I COULDN'T use it under the covers to warm up my bed!"

    Common sense is lost.

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