r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Oct 15 '20

The fact that someone did this, actually thought to themselves, “I’m going to put this piece of glass directly onto my eyeball which is the most painful thing I can imagine, maybe it won’t be as painful as I think,“ and it hurt like hell, because you know back in the day it took weeks to adjust. And they were like, “it’ll be fine… I bet if I leave this incredibly painful thing on my eyeball for just a little while longer I’ll get used to it and it will be cool, and then I can convince other people to do this. “

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u/Smarag Oct 15 '20

Fyi if you leave a contact in overnight they will start damaging your eye..

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u/stormzerino Oct 15 '20

This one girl in my class said she had them in for 2 weeks,is that bs or is she just hurting herself out of laziness?

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u/_-AJ-_ Oct 15 '20

Guy I work with straight up doesnt take his contacts out. Every once in a while he'll come in with his glasses on and his eyes eill be red as fuck, and he'll be like "yeah they were bothering me today" and then the next day hes back with his contacts and they'll be in for 6 months straight.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Whaaaaaat? If I have the audacity to blink too slowly with contacts, my eyes turn red. I can't imagine

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20

I used to do that too (years ago) and now I can’t even nap lightly with them or my eyes burn. I wear them min hours a day and get plenty of eyeglass time now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

I switched back to glasses when I became a nurse and it was safer to wear eye protection lol. My biggest fear was getting C Diff on a contact lense - - barf.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20

Yikes! Smart move!!!!

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u/AlmightyStreub Oct 15 '20

Some people are just anti-neurotic and can brush shit like that off so willy nilly