Personal Account, An Eye... 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
In an effort to prove that men do not have the market cornered on doing stupid things, I offer up my own personal account of stupidity, that didn't result in the loss of life, but nearly took my sight, and I've got the scar to show you...
My husband and I were loading up a pickup full of old trash when we moved out of our apartment, broken chair, broken bookshelf, old mattress and the like. We had no rope on hand so being the quick thinking individuals (in-duh-viduals?) we grabbed some bunjee cords. Unfortunately not one of them was long enough to wrap around itself so we hooked two, three, four? of them together, I don't remember how many really.
Well, the four of them wouldn't quite stretch from one side, around the end and back up behind the cab on the other side and so I go pull in the center while he tugs the end to make it stretch, he yells out "just another inch!" I yell back "Yeah most men would KILL for an Inch!". Promptly after saying this I turn my head as the bunjee lets go somewhere on my side, and if you've ever looked up recoil in the dictionary... I was hit just outside my eyesocket from the bungee newly freed of it's tension. It missed my eye only because I wear glasses. My frames took the brunt of the force as it was a perfect hit on the arm of the frames. The glass lens that was in my frame popped out whole, miraculously it didn't shatter into my eye.
Blunt trauma to the head usually results in disorentiation, and I had just fallen off the tailgate of a pickup, so I sat on the ground wondering what just happened, and why I felt dizzy. My husband came screaming over and gave me his shirt to blot my head, and head wounds bleed lots don't they? Fortunately we lived across the street from a hospital so it was an easy stagger to the ER to get it stitched up. The Physician on call couldn't believe that there was no damage to my eyeball as she sewed up my laceration. I took the damaged frames and lens back to the shop that made the pair, and they fixed it- popped the lense right back in for me. I still have them as a back up pair.
So don't think it's only the guys who do stupid things, there are plenty of stupid women out there, like me. Submitted on 09/30/2002
Submitted by:
The Nikki
Reference:
December 2001, New England
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