While ASMing The Secret Garden, I was also in the prop shop during the day. Three of us went out to pick real branches, etc, to use for set dressing. Our prop master found a "really cool vine" and threw it on top of the others. After unloading all of the branches back out of the van, we started to realize...that vine was poison ivy, which I now had itching all over my arms. Once it moved up into my neck and face, the doctors gave me a Cortisone shot. Itching reduced, but now I couldn't see across the stage. Made for a rather scary tech when you're in charge of watching how everything's progressing backstage on a very technical show, but you can't see! The other student with poison ivy (the asst set designer) gave me an ivy plant for opening, and my mother gave me a troll doll with little red dots she'd put all over it...