Comments | barbarienne: Augh! My eye!

barbarienne

Augh! My eye!

Mar 12, 2009 14:25

I just felt a thing in my eye, so I looked at it in a mirror and saw...an eyelash.

A tiny little black line, finer than a thread, swimming around on my eyeball. I would blink, and it would move to another part of my eye--on the white, on the iris, wheeeee!

I have to get this out of there, I thought. It will make me crazy until I do.

Attempt one: ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

chaosvizier March 12 2009, 19:22:30 UTC

On the day when a hairy stalagmite erupts from one of your facial cavities, I will resign from speaking forevermore, because nothing I could possibly do would ever be funnier than that.

And besides, you might have poison acid tears, but, as we all know, "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried."

purdypiedad March 12 2009, 20:35:36 UTC

I have tears... but that is because I am laughing so hard. Thank you for sharing your great misfortune with us!

frigg March 12 2009, 21:57:06 UTC

*rofl*

quarkwiz March 12 2009, 23:22:39 UTC

OMG. I'm sorry for laughing, but ...but no, I'm not. I needed a laugh. Thank you. :D And am in total agreement with you on the ick factor of touching one's own eyeball. I hope I never need contacts.

(Next time, find the nearest sink and rinse eyeball with lukewarm water.)

barbarienne March 13 2009, 02:33:29 UTC

No, no, you're supposed to laugh! I'd be very disappointed if people weren't laughing, because it would mean this post was poorly written. :-)

carolhelga March 12 2009, 23:36:58 UTC

Your tale had me laughing out loud. I have worn contact lenses, and there is little worse than getting an eyelash under the contact lens. I no longer wear the contacts, mostly because I live in a high dust/lots of wind area, and it made it pretty nigh impossible to wear them for about 2 months of the year (I had the "gas permeable" type...not soft lenses, but a bit more flexible than my originals).

As for touching your eye to put them in, well, you do get used to it. I actually had more trouble getting them out than putting them in.

One advantage to having once wore contacts and no longer wearing them is that when I do get an eyelash in my eye, it's not so much painful as itchy, and so it isn't too hard getting the dern things out.