Editing The Pen Addict 366/transcript (section)

== Ink Incident Recap ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's rough. And the mom's, like, freaking out too, right? Like, she's trying to get all the answers, like, right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because she is a concerned mother, you must give the right answer and nothing else is acceptable.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, so let's see how this goes. All right. So, oh, wow, she responded, surprise, I believe that Noodlers uses mostly natural ingredients in their inks, but here's the number for them so you can ask them directly. As my daughter played happily with her own toys, Oh, that was perfectly dealt with, by the way. She's like, not my problem, see ya.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I mean, you can't go down for that. I proceeded to make my third call of the day before 9 a.m. Hello, Noodlers Inc., the man said to answer my call. Hello, my daughter just drank Black Swan and Australian Roses. I'm trying to figure out if there's anything in this ink that could hurt her. Thankfully, he gave me the answer I was hoping for. My daughter would be fine, but might have some interesting looking bowel movements, I thought, as I hung up the phone. Now, you may be wondering why I did not convey more distress that my daughter had just drank my favorite ink, which, since trying a few others, is still my favorite and continues to make its home in that beautifully contrasting apple green pen. I'd only bought samples of inks with my new pens, and that sample bottle from Goulet Penco was only half full when she drank it in the first place. I hope this revelation is not too disappointing. Heck no, it's not. It's happy. It makes me much, much happier because I did not realize that and I didn't even think that. I did not go there at all. Obviously, I'm not a Hall of Famer. Well, we'll be the judge of that, but my story still makes me laugh whenever I think about it and hope you will get a chuckle out of it too. I have since bought a full-size bottle of my favorite color and it abides on a high shelf behind the baby gate that now stays in the doorway of my craft room at all times.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh my gosh. That was stressful. That was super stressful. I would have done the exact same thing in that situation

'''Myke Hurley:''' and freaked completely out even though it now makes sense why she didn't totally go. You can tell she didn't just totally go crazy and panicking. If it was the full bottle, she'd be in the car. She'd be at the emergency room door. There would be no phone calls

'''Brad Dowdy:''' until after the fact. Right? Yeah. So now it hits me that okay, it was probably just a sample vial and maybe it's just a little taster, a little taster of ink. But man, that's scary. Oh man, I'd be freaking out. Yeah, I'd probably be in the car on the way to like the emergency room and then calling like after the fact

'''Myke Hurley:''' trying to figure out okay, what's in this thing that could be harmful. Thankfully, nothing was. Baby's okay. Mom's okay. I'm stressed out after reading that, Myke. I think it will affect you more than me, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I'm not a parent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you have to be a parent to like fully understand the gravity of that situation. Like I can understand it but I don't, I can't like, I can't feel it so viscerally as you were feeling it right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's the description like before you even get to the ink about the kids like wandering around the house without any barriers. Like when that transition happens, that will freak you out for months. Right, see, I haven't got that, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I've never had that. So I'm gonna, I am agreeing with Audrey basically, the bottle wasn't big enough

'''Myke Hurley:''' for Hall of Fame. Like, I know that's like a terrible thing to say but like, that's the situation, right? If it was a full bottle, if we're talking like an Ackerman ink, right? With, that's, you know, you're going in

'''Myke Hurley:''' because that's like, you got a stomach pump going on there. Like,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' you know, yeah, if that's the situation, we're probably not getting this story. So I'm glad it had like, you know. Yeah,

'''Myke Hurley:''' here's the deal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You gotta get your stomach pumped. That's kind of where we're at for Hall of Fame. No, like, that's what I'm saying is like, no one's going to tell us that story because that is just bad. Like, we don't want to hear that. Oh, maybe. Maybe. Oh, gosh. I'm, I'm stressed out. That was a good story, Audrey. I appreciate that. That was, thank you for sharing that because hey, it's hard to share those things, you know, when you're a parent and like, we all do it. Like, it is, it's just going to happen and fortunately in this situation, everything was fine.