Don't Smoke Kids!

So the other day I thought i had an ear infection but it went away the next day. A friend of mine suggested i go out and buy an ear candle to clean it out just because it does a great job. So i went and bought one for each of my ears. Now they didn't come with instructions but i heard you were supposed to light them on fire and stick the not burning end in your ear. As we lit the fire i thought to myself, "I wonder who was the first person who said, 'hey lets stick this flaming rolled up wax paper in our ears and see if it cleans out the ear wax!'"



As it burned it occurred to my roommate to read online how to do an ear candle. So he looks it up and it says you need to cut the burned out part as it goes down. so my roommate took an oven mitt and a pair of scissors and proceeds to grab the charred paper and cut it off. the first cut went well until he got it outside where it burned a whole in the mitt. Then, a few minutes later he went to take a second cut. I asked him to be careful not to burn me. He looks at me, leans in to cut and then says, "I am not going to Burn you! Fool!" Just as he finishes "Fool" i feel a large piece of flaming paper hit my neck. "Whoops," he says. :) Can you see the red mark where i got burned?


The candles worked very well and i could hear much better. It was kinda gross to look inside...i probably wont do that again though...at least not for 6 months. That is how often the website told me to use them. :)