GOOD GOD! 10 kids drink Winshield fluid at Daycare!

[TE999]

Ya know, I gotta agree with you.

Plus I have a question.

When I started grade school, we would have all the arts and craft sessions. Lots of flour paste and that smelly "elementary school" paste.

It rings in my head to this day....my first grade teacher yelling out to some of the students...."Don't eat the paste!"

What? Huh?

WTF would ANYONE put that crap in their mouths?

My guess is that the kids eating the paste...were also boogger eaters.

Did you eat the paste?

I asked this question a couple of times before in my life. And wouldn't you know it....my ex-husband ate the paste.

figures....

Gah! That paste smelled terrible. Prolly made from last place finishers at the Kentucky Derby. Only a booger-eating moron would eat that crap more than once. I knew a kid in Elementary school who ate an earthworm on a bet. He lived, too.

 

[fieryjen]

Ew. Not the paste.

I once accidentally swallowed a smidgeon of glue in kindergarten. I freaked out because I thought my throat was going to glue shut and I'd die for lack of oxygen. I was too embarrassed to alert anyone though, so... I guess I'd planned to die quietly or something.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

No it isn't. Just following 3113's logic path on the how it could have happened. Where it breaks down, I think, is the push and turn cap on windshield wiper fluid. There's a child safety cap on most (if not all?) containers of the stuff. THAT should have clued someone in...

For real. I just put washer fluid in my car and it had a child proof cap. I don't buy Kool Aid, but I'm pretty sure it does not have a child proof cap.

 

[Weird Harold]

Did you eat the paste?

I'm pretty sure that the classic library paste of my kindergarten days was nothing like the Elmers School Paste youcan buy in the stores today. The 1957 vintage was pretty sweet and licking your fingers was a lot less messy than trying to wipe up paste with 1950's vintage Kleenex tissues.

The only problem with eating the 1957 vintage paste is that you would run out of paste for your art projects before the year was over -- IIRC, I went through three jars. It wa about as toxic as eating unflavored gelatin.

Modern school paste isn't as edible and from the smell, I doubt that it's even close to being as tasty, but kids are still going to lick their fingers before they go for the handi-wipes.

 

[sutherngent985]

The generic kind of blue, premixed windshield washer fluid I buy doesn't have much smell at all. The few times I've sampled generic 'Berry-Blue' kid's drink, it didn't have much smell either. You'd have to deliberately sniff either to identify it.

The washer fluid does usually come with a child-proof cap, but it's just as likely to come with a tamper-resistant seal. I actually had to go look at the bottle under my hood to see which it has. Push-to-turn type caps are so ubiquitous, that I open them without thinking what I'm doing or about why any particular product has one.

I have a bottle in my trunk (boot I guess for the british) that has a tamper resistant cap. You have to press like a button on the side then turn to open it.

 

[Guest]

For real. I just put washer fluid in my car and it had a child proof cap. I don't buy Kool Aid, but I'm pretty sure it does not have a child proof cap.

Same here.

I wonder if the worker could not read the warning label because it was in English.

 

[driphoney]

Same here.

I wonder if the worker could not read the warning label because it was in English.

Or just couldn't read.

 

[Weird Harold]

I have a bottle in my trunk (boot I guess for the british) that has a tamper resistant cap. You have to press like a button on the side then turn to open it.

I suppose it depends on the particular formulation of the washer fluid. I occasionally buy a "pet safe" generic that shouldn't require a safety cap but I don't recall whether it had one or not the last time it was available.

The requirement for child-safe caps on hazardous materials is suppossed prevent things like this, but it just proves that you can't legislate away 'Dumb.'