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  • So it seems that rust is really bad for your eyes...

    Ouch!

    Was working on my car last night, and I got some rust dust in my right eye...So I went to the bathroom and rinsed it thoroughly....or so I thought. Woke up this morning with my eye sealed shut. I mean the eye lid glued in place. What a wonderful experience that was. Not freakin out one bit...

    So I went in the shower to try to lubricate my eye so it would finally open, and I succeeded...But then my eye opened...and the water rushed in...Fvcking painful! Like vinegar on an open wound. A nutshot would have been helpful at that point just to make a pain diversion...

    Now, my eye starts to swell like a marshmallow in a microwave. 15 minutes later I look like a boxer who got beaten up by an ugly stick. But the swelling stopped.

    Now, on my way to work. I'm in my car, driving down the highway and my eye starts to leak tears like a faucet. So I'm wiping my eye while driving, trying to find Kleenex at the same time. Couldn't find any...so I help my glove on my eye all the way to work...And at a stop sign, so lady honks to ask me for directions. I roll down my window and she goes: '' Excuse me, do you know where...ummm....I'm sorry, I can see this is a bad time...'' She thought I was crying...So I told her that wasn't the case and gave her the directions...

    So now its 9 am....the opto doesn't open until 10 so I have to wait. 10 am comes so I leave for the optp, I get there and the only appointment I can get is at 11h30...So I go to get a hair cut in the same mall to pass the time. When I get there she says, are we washing your hair? And I go, no thank you, I have kind of a situation here...while in my mind it was more like : Are you ****ing crazy?! Cant you see my eye bltch? No wonder you're a hairdresser!. But I didn't say that out loud of course, its not her fault I'm too stupid to wear goggles... So my hair cut went great, she sprayed water on my hair to get it wet...But then the dryer came out...I never thought that heat from a dryer could be so painful...It almost dried it shut a second time because of all the shlt that was coming out of it...

    Anyhow, I leave for the opto, and she sits me down on the chair and says: I am going to drop some yellow coloring in your eye so I can see what is wrong. Well, yes, the liquid was yellow....but I'm wondering if that wasn't yellow lemonade because the shlt hurt me as hell!! I could swear I heard a ppppccchhhhhh! Like water droplets on a fire. well, thats what it felt like. That she point kind of a laser like thingy in my eye and circles around to come up with the : you got something in your eye'' answer...And in my mind I'm like ''No shlt Shirlock'' but I go ''Well you dont say!''...

    So now, I have a scratch in my eye and I have to use drops 3 times a day and look like a freakin pirate for 3 days...woopdidoo..

    Also, I'm going to buy some safety goggles tonight...

    Spec.
    Last edited by Spec; March 22, 2007, 14:40.
    -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

  • #2
    all that for a POS?

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    • #3
      a what?

      I cant read right maybe...

      Spec.
      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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      • #4
        Piece of Sh*t

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        • #5
          Re: So it seems that rust is really bad for your eyes...

          Originally posted by Spec

          Also, I'm going to buy some safety goggles tonight...

          Spec.


          I don't know what yer doin' to the car, but some earplugs might be worthwhile the investment as weel (if you're sanding with electric tools 'n stuff)
          "post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
          "I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon Miller

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Verto
            all that for a POS?
            Depends on the car?
            I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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            • #7
              can't ever recall getting rust in my eyes. But I got everything else in my eyes in the navy while working on ships. And I even wear glasses!. There was so much crap, it would fall in even around the edges of the glasses.

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              • #8
                Damn. That's unfortunate.

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                • #9
                  Re: So it seems that rust is really bad for your eyes...

                  Originally posted by Spec
                  ... the water rushed in...Fvcking painful! Like vinegar on an open wound.
                  Hmm...Iron Oxide should be fairly PH neutral...I wonder why all the pain? Any chemists or biochemists in the crowd?

                  ... and look like a freakin pirate for 3 days...woopdidoo..
                  Puffy shirts

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                  • #10
                    Re: Re: So it seems that rust is really bad for your eyes...

                    Originally posted by Zkribbler


                    Hmm...Iron Oxide should be fairly PH neutral...I wonder why all the pain? Any chemists or biochemists in the crowd?
                    It's not the iron, just the fact that the eye is iritated that does it. An infection does the same (tried it three times).

                    Yeah, that yellow liquid is a real pain - something like sticking a hot needle into the eye

                    Googles are a good idea, and maybe a breating protection (no, not a gasmask, just those paperthingies japs are so fond of).
                    With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                    Steven Weinberg

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                    • #11
                      I thought you were going to agree with my mom's saying
                      anti steam and proud of it

                      CDO ....its OCD in alpha order like it should be

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Tattila the Hun


                        Depends on the car?
                        Ok, lets compare. Take out your bus pass.

                        Spec.
                        -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                        • #13
                          Googles are a good idea
                          I fail to see how an internet search will get his car fixed up and looking good.

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                          • #14
                            I know how it is, I have had conjunctivitis very recently, not nice. Although the worst part of it wasn't the eye itself but how run down and worn out it left me...
                            Speaking of Erith:

                            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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