So a couple of recent experiences got me thinking is it just me, or does anybody else get hurt getting messy? On both occasions that spring to mind it was cleaning up!
Most recently, I had some fun with shaving foam pies, eggs & custard. All was fine but when it came to cleaning up, I got shower gel in my eye so had a stinging, red eye for a few days.
A bit longer ago, I'd used all sorts and a lot of mess sat in the shower tray. So much that I'd scooped it all back into a bucket, cleaned off & gotten messy again with the mixed bucket of slop. Great fun & all was good - no injuries, no problems. Came to clean up and slipped on all the mess, foot slid under a slight overhang of the shower screen and thought I'd broken something in my foot! Huge bruise, swelling & not being able to put a shoe on, people are curious what I've done.
So, is it just me or has anybody else any fails they want to share?
I am sure there will be others here who have had some adverse experiences. If you wam alone as I do I would suggest some extra care. Think through what you intend to do and the properties of the substance. If used on your face have something within easy reach that you wipe your eyes Be xareful what surface you wam on easiest to clean most likely to be slippery. Think through how you will clean as well. Preparation is your greatest ally in wamming safely.
Two times come to mind. One when I did a cannonball into a river on a dare with someone from instagram. The water turned out to not be deep at all, and I landed on my tailbone which hurt for a few days.
The other time I didn't get hurt, but I got very stuck in mud, and was actually a bit scared I wouldn't be able to get out. My rainwear and boots had filled up with mud and were super heavy so it was hard to move, I had to take them off and crawl through the mud in my underwear. It was kind of fun to put the mud soaked rainwear back on afterwards though.
Dropped a bucket of gunge on my head, which bloody hurt...
But yeah, when you start doing it frequently enough you're bound to at the very least slip and fall. Thankfully you can help mitigate this with cleaning your feet, having a grippy mat or putting on some flip flops before moving to the shower.
I have also had an allergic reaction to chocolate sauce which left me burning all over.
Most recently... I stuck my hand in a can to get the last of the beans out and forgot the sharp edge and sliced my finger, mid scene.
(Yes, I'm a liability!)
Raindancer said: The other time I didn't get hurt, but I got very stuck in mud, and was actually a bit scared I wouldn't be able to get out. My rainwear and boots had filled up with mud and were super heavy so it was hard to move, I had to take them off and crawl through the mud in my underwear. It was kind of fun to put the mud soaked rainwear back on afterwards though.
Eek, as someone who grew up near the water and quicksand, this is genuinely terrifying.
If you ever find yourself getting bogged down, don't fight it -- lay flat and crawl on your stomach until you come unstuck.
If you find yourself in water, float on your back -- float to live!
But yeah, if doing any mud or water work it's a good idea to double check any tides, be wary that flat areas will become covered quickly and sometimes without warning, and to let someone know where you are and what time you expect to be back.
I'm gonna go with the injury subject, from super minor shit to pretty bad shit, one of the worst things I've done was shin my self on a fucking log I couldn't see in murky water, almost as bad as walking into a trailer hitch in the dark and if you have not done that yet then believe me you don't wanna do it because that shit really sucks don't ask me how I know. Meanwhile my girl one upped my ass on this subject by winning her self the sprain ankle prize due to a slip while standing in the shower and nearly took my ass out along with her. After more time in there she couldn't stand anymore on, despite how hard we tried to wash our selves off, the odd smell of aloe still rose from us and the hospital at one point asked what on earth were you two doing? Referencing to the slightly different smell and I'm responding along the lines of like "come on dude we've been working hard a lot earlier today so give us a break will ya? Sorry we smell like a gym here we would shower her if she could stand so lets please just fix her ass up already its getting late its been a really long day for us here so don't ask" Yeah funny how that worked out.
Other things like soap or other stuff in my eye, oh sex lube in our eyes yeah whoops that too isn't so great makes your vision blurry as fuck and yeah I'll bet others here have done it so they know. Also slipped and fallen on a few slippery rocks under water in rather shallow water busting my self up a few times during those. Accidentally inhaled water and cough up a fuckin lung over it, accidentally ingested some not so clean water which made me barf later and shit up a storm too yeah that sucks too try to avoid that one for sure too.
Other smaller things too but those are the notable ones.
Charlotte Black said: Eek, as someone who grew up near the water and quicksand, this is genuinely terrifying.
If you ever find yourself getting bogged down, don't fight it -- lay flat and crawl on your stomach until you come unstuck.
If you find yourself in water, float on your back -- float to live!
But yeah, if doing any mud or water work it's a good idea to double check any tides, be wary that flat areas will become covered quickly and sometimes without warning, and to let someone know where you are and what time you expect to be back.
This mud was at the bottom of a slope I had foolishly decided to slide down... so it wasn't just that it was very deep, I also had to crawl through it upwards at a pretty steep angle. If I had thought about my actions a little in advance, it wouldn't have happened... but sometimes you are impulsive lol.
In general, I almost never get stuck badly. And a little bit stuck is kind of fun, when you fall over in the mud or get bits of it everywhere semi accidentally, knowing you can get out of course.
Bath with golden oil. Dislocation of the leg, a little bit of a broken stupid girl's head, a slight concussion of the brain.
Sex in the chocolate bath. Several days of nausea and pain in the pancreas, for two months after that I could not look at anything chocolate.
Well, twice - we almost drowned in the Swamp. But it was different in the sense that we were not afraid then. It was why it was wildly interesting - but how will it end, damn it? And once - my Marie almost choked. Which cost her a few tufts of plucked hair, for which I pulled her out.
I have come to accept minor injuries as part of the solo WAM experience. MaxCD's advice of keeping a washcloth handy is critical in case something spills or you need to re-gain visibility quickly.
My biggest fails both came from a lack of preparation. In the first situation I was a newly minted 18 year old with my then girlfriend (she was 19) and thought "it would be nice if she covered my with hand soap during a wetlook". We had used soap before but I made the mistake of not covering my eyes during the pour. What was supposed to be a fun shower turned into me washing my eyes out for the next 45 minutes.
My second fail occurred when I forgot to lock the door. I was home during winter break from college and doing a messy session. I was filming myself in my bathtub with the shower curtain open when the door began to open. I immediately yelled "IM NAKED DON'T COME IN" to the person about to enter. This led them to quickly close the door and tell me to lock the door. To this day I don't think they saw anything but it was certainly a scary moment.
Well, twice - we almost drowned in the Swamp. But it was different in the sense that we were not afraid then. It was why it was wildly interesting - but how will it end, damn it? And once - my Marie almost choked. Which cost her a few tufts of plucked hair, for which I pulled her out.
Same here in a swampy bog about 20 years ago when we were stubborn fearless teenagers, a short 5ft tall girl I was with couldn't break the surface after pushing off the ground below, but I got her just in time as she was on the verge of inhaling it. Wildly interesting is a great way to put it, we began laughing while holding onto a floating log after that ordeal.
+100500!! Our friend, who is 51 years old, and his 52-year-old ex-Wife -still sometimes wonder how nothing happened to them about how they started doing "this" in the USSR in April 1990. There are no topographic maps, they are still secret. How deep is the Swamp? And the devil knows?! Climbed!! Wedding night in the Swamp in the city park (with the corresponding "hygiene" of this Swamp) - and this is immediately after defloration, accompanied by profuse bleeding?? Yes Easy!! Who in a fit of passion thinks about such trifles??! Moreover - two and a half years - they dreamed! And - NO consequences! There is such a Russian expression, which we are not sure that can be adequately translated into other languages - "Kak vspomnyu - azh vzdrognu!!" ("As soon as I remember, I will shudder!!") And already in the 2000s - when they already had new marriages, they were already experienced, there was already a different access to information (especially since Olya - then she already lived in the USA) - despite all the precautions - each of them a couple of times caught fevers there are different and so on.
My secret to not slipping over is to have a pair of crocs to move around in - they have great grip (much more than flip flops and they don't fall off as easily), are simple to put on and take off and you can just hose them clean.
As a fashion item they're ****ing hideous but I wouldn't go to any wam session without them.