We were out for dinner & window-shopping with friends one evening and happened to be just chatting right outside a pharmacy. My two-year-old boy was intrigued by a colourful display of perfume & cologne bottles (testers and packaged boxes) displayed at an area right outside the pharmacy.  Surprisingly, all the bottles were within his reach even though he is just a mere 96cm tall. In fact, they were just right in front of him and he innocently took hold of one bottle while calling out 'Mummy,bottles!'  I quickly moved to him with the intention of getting the bottle out of his hand because I was concerned that he might drop it and shatter the glass bottle of perfume. To my horror, he accidentally squirt one spray right into his eye. He screamed loudly and cried. It all happened so lightning fast though I was just a few steps away from him!! I had to quickly rub his eye and hoped that tears will help wash out the perfume from his eye. The toilet was far away for me to reach in time. Fortunately, he recovered from the incident but not without a slightly red eye which stayed throughout the whole evening.

I just hope parents who read this will learn a lesson from me. Sometimes, we may not foresee a possibly dangerous situation when we are out and about. Beware of those tester bottles easily within our kids' reach when we go shopping at pharmacys or departmental stores. Having one spray of that perfume/cologne into the eye is worse than breaking the bottle...