.. and it’s lesson in why you should always look after your vision!
I’m normally one for writing blogs based on humor, and the humor being of a satire. But this time round, it’s more of a slapstick nature as to why I can read what I’m writing very well and why keeping my eyes open for longer than 30 seconds without heavy blinking… hurts. My only saving grace writing this is Safari’s spell checker putting a feint, blurry line below incorrect words and the girlie reading over my shoulder telling me it’s spell incorrectly - if you must know, she’s reading it right now!
So last night I’m sat there playing a new game, Mercenaries 2, on the PS3. Girlie had gone to bed which meant I could have some fun rather than get excited watching Lara Croft running around in something she picked up from Ann Summers… *ahem*. So there I was taking out some army dudes when half the screen goes blurry; one of the lenses falls out of my glasses (those who know may not know that I do in fact wear glasses). It appears that glasses purchased for £18 in total from Asda aren’t meant to last for 4-5 years clearly. So I am left to do the obvious and play the rest of the mission with my contacts that my eyes are starting to reject being so late in the evening.
Fast forward to today. My eyes are kinda weary and I’d love to do nothing other but take my contacts out and wear glasses while playing some video games. But alas, as I said, Asda failed me. So I go ahead and play for a bit only to notice my eyes are, once again, starting to reject the contact (by this I mean I can’t focus correctly with them in as my eyes are getting tired). Pissed off I work out a way of keeping the lens in the glasses (not without texting a flat mate if the had some super-glue), and so I walk into the bath room and try to take out my contacts. Being an idiot I forgot I only but 45 minutes ago was cutting a chili to have in a spicy sandwich. So my eyes start to burn like hell and I’m in agony.
After many eye drops and stamping my feet, the chili wears off and I get to a point of just sitting down and letting my eyes settle. Go off to get my glasses, to my temp fix and start gaming again.
Friends turn up with some super-glue and I am most chuffed!
Go back with dodgy glasses and play some more game before heading off to bed. So I think “Now would be a good time to sort out my glasses properly”. So I go ahead and get the girlie to help me put super-glue on, but there is a slight issue… the glue isn’t coming out. So thinking I’m not squeezing hard enough, so the girlie has a go. Passing it to her and rubbing my hands a bit I say to the girlie “do you hands feel funny?”
“Yeah… why?” she responds.
“May need to wash our hands!”
Turns out it was a new tube of super-glue and the top wasn’t peirced so it came out of the bottom! So before the glue sticks we wash it off and I have a final stab at the glasses…
[ now writing after work the next day ]
Well, I managed to get one of the chili contacts in and the other had to get thrown away due to the chili being intense, so I’ve now got 1 spare contact to last me for another month! But I’ve ordered some glasses now, and pretty cool ones.
Osiris 597
Osiris 646
Maybe a bit geeky looking, but that’s what I am really.
So that’s my little adventure into eye safety! Hope you learned and know to have a spare pair of glasses and never use a chili as a way of trying to fake a cold… what?
Later.
