Teacher:In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a short summary for this text. The summary must include a situation which caused humor. The summary should be one or two sentences long.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Text: i'm coming down with a cold, so i'm a little tired and achy and congested. this morning i figured i'd irrigate my sinuses with my neti pot and hopefully get some relief.

big mistake - while clearly not paying attention at all, i grabbed a bottle of distilled vinegar to fill the pot with, not distilled water. read on.

for those that don't know, a neti pot is a little device to pour warm salt water into one nostril and out the other. it helps a little with congestion, though i've never gotten the extreme benefits others have.

so, i open up the bottle of vinegar and warm it up in the microwave for about 20 seconds. not enough to give it any real heat, just a little above room temperature. it felt relatively cool to the touch. note that my nose is completely congested, so i didn't smell any vinegar at all. i added the little packet of salt and baking soda, filled up the pot, tilted it into my head.

and holy mother of god instantaneous pain as if i'd just jabbed a red hot poker up my nose.

the pain is utterly incomprehensibly blinding. i tried to blow it back out of my nose, but as i said - i'm congested. so it limply trickled back out as i gasped for air and my eye started to swell shut. i had no idea what had happened, i'd never had any issues like this before.

my first thought was that the brief time in the microwave had actually superheated the water and i'd burned my nose. i poured some out on my hand to check it, but had no issues. it was cool. my nose was still burning incredibly.

my next thought was that i'd improperly agitated the salt into the water, and had ended up dumping a salt sludge into my nose. and, that if that was the case, i needed to rinse the salt out immediately.

so i mixed the pot around thoroughly, checked the temperature again, checked to see if there was any residue (there wasn't), and hoping that it was resolved, dunked my nostril a second time. dammit.

again, blinding sheer pain. i nearly fell over, gasping for air, eye forcing its way shut, headache up my sinus passages. again, tried to blow as much as i could back of out my nose, but only got small quantities of mucus and blood. blood. great. even better.

i still had no idea what happened. i cleaned myself up as well as i could and staggered to the living room to sit down. it still felt like my nose was on fire. seriously - red hot poker up the nose seems like the best description. top 10 pain i've ever had in my life, probably top 3 (the only two things that could beat this are when i was hit by a car and when i was burned by a barbecue. but even those were a gradual increase in pain over a few days, and not the instantaneous horror that this was).

i still had no idea what had happened, but assumed that something was still lodged in my nose causing irritation. i was still operating on the salt sludge theory, and that i now critically needed to flush out my nose. so, taking a deep breath, i decided i'd try the neti-pot again. no microwave this time, no salt packet, just straight water.

thank god that this time i glanced at the bottle as i was picking it up and saw that i'd grabbed a jug of vinegar. now it all made sense. i quickly put that bottle back and grabbed the distilled water which was slightly farther over on the shelf, and have flushed my nose out 3x since then to slight benefit. but i'm not seeing blood when i blow my nose any more! so, progress.

the pain has gradually subsided over the last 5 hours, and my eye isn't bright red any more. the headache is still a dull throb, and i've taken a ton of advil. i took a hot bath to get some steam up my nose, which helped a little temporarily. and i'm more congested than ever.

i would not recommend using vinegar in a neti pot.
Student:
i accidentally filled my neti pot with distilled vinegar instead of distilled water.