stupidest thing - i was young and trying to impress my girlfriend by showing her how tough i was. her mother had showed her how to use pepper spray a few months earlier to defend herself, and the wind had unfortunately not been in her favour, and she got a little mist of it back in her own face when she sprayed it. she kept telling me how awful and painful that little mist was!
so, trying to be tough and cool and wearing my leather at 16 years old, i let her sister blast me directly in the face with a canister of bear spray.
the nightmares will haunt me forever. i've been hit by cars, been in fights, broken bones, had surgeries, and nothing will ever, ever, ever compare to that, holy CRAP. i was sobbing and drooling all over the floor and running into walls and overall a pathetic mess. snorting kool-aid was also an epic low of handling pain.
p.s.: she wasn't impressed. who's surprised?