Background : My gf loves the spicy food, I, not so much, but I do like to make her happy...
Once upon a time, I decide to make a spicy mango shrimp dish. I go to the grocery store and make my purchases, there are no jalepeneos, so I pick up a couple of moderatly innocuous looking chilies.
I get home, make the preparations and begin cooking, not knowing how hot the peppers I bought were, I added less than a half of one pepper into the mix. You can always add more, but it's kinda difficult to get it out. After adding the pepper to the pan, I go outside for a minute to check on something. I come back inside and start sneezing. My eyes begin to water, it feels like the air has turned into pepper spray.
Being the dutiful cook I am, I finished up the cooking and set it aside. We sat down to eat. Eyes cleared up and I thought no more of it.
She loved it, after trying the first one, said, "A little spicy, but good"
They burned, but overall it tasted good.
Fast forward 3 hours later, after a workout in the pool and a post swimming shower. I take my contacts off and go to bed.
Get up the next morning to put my contacts on, no sooner does the first one hit my eye than I'm on the floor in agony. I get it out as quickly as I can. I wash it, figuring there was some dust in there. After cleaning it I try to put it in again and it hurts just as much the second time. On a hunch, I check my hands. After 1 hour in a pool, a long shower and 8 hours of sleep, there was still pepper oil in my fingers. It took more than 3 days to get it out of my fingernails.
Lesson to self, never, NEVER cook spicy crap with unknown peppers with contacts on.
