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Here's a new one: Lens falls out with fog
Posted: Mon 25 Dec 2006 5:41 pm
by Amarpal
Well, it has been a lovely Christams day, lovely dinner prepared by Mum, snapping away with the new digital camera, and a lovely post-dinner stroll- in the fog. Thick fog, with big droplets of water- which is what made me blink suddenly. I have just come in after spending at least 45minutes looking for my contact lens on the pavement out my house, but once again I have lost a lens. And I only got this one last week! Ach, what an end to Christmas day! Oh well, I'll stop now.
I hope everyone is having a great Christmas!
Posted: Mon 25 Dec 2006 6:47 pm
by jayuk
Amarpal
I know that feeling!
One time, when I was wearing the smaller Standard Issue RGPs, I was walking against the wind and as i blinked I knwe I was in trouble as the blink later it was al blurry and the lens went fly away!
The funny thing is!......or at least it was after, was that I had found it stuck on my ear lobe that evening!...the water as I blinked must have caused the lens to be able to create suction...and as it hit my skin it stuck there!!
The very worse thats happened with a Lens was when was working in Prague....I came back to Hotel in the evening and had just had a shower....was kneeling over the sink and next thing I heard a dreaded noise of a lens falling and hitting ceramic!....this was a period where I was only wearing one lens and was lucky if Id manage 20/50 on a very good day!..I tell you!...you have no idea how much I cacked myself at the moment!....as I would have been realy screwed! ..After around 1hr and ten mins I found the little git!.....it was on the underside of the sink pedastal!....man i tell you!....thats been one of the most relieved periods of my life lol
J
J
Posted: Tue 26 Dec 2006 9:59 am
by Andrew MacLean
Arampal
We were out your way on Christmas Day. My sister lives in Milngavie and we gather there in the morning before going our separate ways.
I think we beat the fog. Back in Glasgow, and here in Port Glasgow we were spared the thick pea souper you walked through. Still we did have a walk from the Merchant City where we have a flat to Garnethill where our daughter lives.
The Christmas evening cafe was a great success. This gives a place for people who would have been alone at Christmas to come together.
Andrew
Posted: Tue 26 Dec 2006 11:09 am
by GarethB
Jay,
Can't imagine how you managed to blink a lens to your ear unless you have a face like the Elephant Man or the Hunchback of Notre Dam
Happy to say my lens stayed in place and this is the first Christmas since 2003 that I have actualy had vision!
Really enjoyed it.
Sorry amarpal I can not help with the lost lens.
Posted: Tue 26 Dec 2006 1:51 pm
by jayuk
Gareth
Please! I prefer Hunchback of Notre Dam
Posted: Tue 26 Dec 2006 2:40 pm
by Andrew MacLean
I once blinked a lens to the inside of my eyelid: it was sticking to the inside of my eyelid having turned through 180 degrees! I know that this does not measure up to blinking a lens to your ear, and readily defer to Jay's superior prowess!
Andrew
Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2006 2:10 pm
by Kirsten
I've had a couple of good near losses also.
The first was at work.. fell out of my eye and straight into the top pocket of my shirt!!! Searched for ages and was so relieved when I realised what had happened. Worse case scenario was that it had landed in a customer's shopping bag and they'd taken it home!
The 2nd time it fell and landed between the face of my watch and my wrist. Didn't find it till the next day (after sleeping on my arm all night mind you). I noticed something felt funny under my watch and there it was. lol
Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2006 2:39 pm
by jayuk
Lol top pocket!....dont think anyones gna beat that
Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2006 2:53 pm
by Richard In Wales
I was at a boot sale and walking down the isle with a coffee in my hand, stall holder points to another stall over their shoulder and pokes me in the eye. After a while searching I took a sip of my coffee and found it in there.
Had quite a few flip up into my eye socket.
I did ask if they could make the next set UV. I could then use a hand held UV tourch to find any that fell out. Also would look very mad when in a club or pub with UV lights on the dance floor
Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2006 3:06 pm
by Anne B
Not quiet the same as lost lens, but my three children and two nephews decided to jump on me on christmas eve and they bent my glasses so every time i bend over my glasses fall off, tried to mend them but i think i need to visit the opticians. IT IS DRIVING ME MAD!!!!!
Anne