Don't Do What Donny Don't Does
You all know how it goes: you see people doing it at a party, you join in to be cool telling yourself you won't get hooked, then you start doing it on your own more and more regularly until gradually it becomes a habit which you do without even consciously willing it. Friends tell you you should stop and that it's dangerous and you hear their concern but somehow can't do anything about it. Suddenly, after years of doing it, it all goes wrong and you get hurt. You know that that's the time to get serious about stopping.
I'm talking, of course, about cleaning wax from out of your ears using the arms of your glasses. I found out today that all the people that had told me this was stupid were right: I was cleaning my (left) ear from wax when my arm slipped and my glasses arm jabbed up deep inside my ear. In case you're finding this hard to imagine, just think: pain; deep inside ear.
This was about 10 minutes before I was meant to teach a two hour class. I ended up sending them home about 40 minutes in because it was still hurting. I'm now nicely goofed up on ibuprofen and I can no longer hear stuff crackling in my ear when I swallow (which is nice). A quick test with stereo headphones seems to suggest that left hearing is not affected (now about 2 and a half hours after incident), though it was for about an hour or so afterwards.
I'm talking, of course, about cleaning wax from out of your ears using the arms of your glasses. I found out today that all the people that had told me this was stupid were right: I was cleaning my (left) ear from wax when my arm slipped and my glasses arm jabbed up deep inside my ear. In case you're finding this hard to imagine, just think: pain; deep inside ear.
This was about 10 minutes before I was meant to teach a two hour class. I ended up sending them home about 40 minutes in because it was still hurting. I'm now nicely goofed up on ibuprofen and I can no longer hear stuff crackling in my ear when I swallow (which is nice). A quick test with stereo headphones seems to suggest that left hearing is not affected (now about 2 and a half hours after incident), though it was for about an hour or so afterwards.