I will never have Desitin in my house again! (LONG)

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

Oh, you poor thing.  A very similar thing happened to my sister when 
her daughter was about three.  Her then-husband was a salesman for 
Johnson & Johnson and so they had closets and closets of J&J products 
in the house--including Vaseline.  One day when she was supposed to 
be having her nap (and my sister was trying to take a nap as well, 
since she was eight months pregant and tired from chasing a toddler 
around) my niece got into some of the Vaseline.  She emptied THREE 
containers of the stuff by smearing it on herself and most of the 
living room.  The carpet was completely impregnated with the stuff 
and it was all over the upholstery, tables, lamps, etc.  Not as 
smelly as Desitin, but still a nightmare.  I think my sister would 
have to be paid quite a lot of money to get within a mile of Vaseline 
now.

On the up side, the former three-year-old terror is now a brilliant, 
beautiful 25-year-old college graduate working for the Department of 
Education in Washington, DC.  If I find out any time soon that she 
and her husband are expecting a baby, I'm tempted to give them gift-
wrapped Vaseline...

--Barb