A Warning about Warning Labels.

I pride myself on being a relatively intelligent human being. So when I went to clean the oven in my new apartment the other day, I did what intelligent people do: I read the warning label on the can of oven cleaner BEFORE proceeding. I read that I needed to wear gloves while applying the oven cleaner, that I had to be careful not to breathe in deeply while cleaning, and to avoid spraying outside the oven. Seemed like reasonable warnings. On went the gloves, I sprayed and sprayed (and choked a little), and then shut the oven door. I waited the requisite 20 minutes, grabbed a roll of paper towel and wiped out the icky foamy mess that the inside of the oven had become. 15 minutes into the wiping-out process an unpleasant feeling began to spread across my hands.. and I looked down and realized I had forgotten to put the gloves back on. You see, the warning label ended with the closing of the oven door and COMPLETELY failed to mention putting on gloves (or keeping on your gloves) for the wiping out part of the oven-cleaning procedure. Sure, as a relatively intelligent human being I should have been intelligent enough to realize that I should be wearing gloves the entire time.. but alas, I am merely "relatively" intelligent and clearly rely WAY too much on warning labels. As it turns out, it wasn't too severe of a chemical burn... I lost a few layers of skin over the course of a few days and now my hands are baby smooth. Lesson learned.