I was working among trees today, when I turned my face I got hit hard in the face by a branch that whacked me before I knew it was coming. I'm sure if had not had my glasses on I would have had horrible damage to my eye.
My glasses saved my eye today.
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Whoa! A good catch by the glasses. I don't wear them and got a ding in the eye myself from a branch a few years ago.
velvetfoot
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I was cutting up some scrap plywood with a circular saw a couple months ago and some sawdust got around the glasses and got me (just irritated, went away in a couple of weeks). Anyway, side protection is a good thing as well.
Count your blessings and consider yourself lucky; my wife has worked for eye doctors for 33 years and has seen many bad things over the years....like they say "you've only got one pair!"
I'd say an extra "thank you" to the Big Boss upstairs if you are a religious man
I'd say an extra "thank you" to the Big Boss upstairs if you are a religious man
Very true.Count your blessings and consider yourself lucky; my wife has worked for eye doctors for 33 years and has seen many bad things over the years....like they say "you've only got one pair!"
I'd say an extra "thank you" to the Big Boss upstairs if you are a religious man
"You can walk on a wooden leg, you can't see with a glass eye. put your glasses on"
told to me many years ago by more than one boss
told to me many years ago by more than one boss
Lake Girl
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Heck to pay in this house if anyone messes with Mom's safety glasses. I learned my lesson years ago when stripping furniture with the ornate fruit back carving. Got a drop of stripper on the eyeball - after flushing the eye, had to drag two little boys out of bed to go with Mom to emergency to get it checked out. Lucky for me it was the white not the cornea.
Lumber-Jack
Minister of Fire
I lost track of how many times wearing glasses has saved my eyes, in fact the last pair of prescription glasses I bought are an all in one multipurpose deal. First and foremost they are prescription so I can see better, (slightly nearsighted so they come in handy when trying to read road signs while driving), and they are safety glasses, (the main reason I bought safety glasses was a job I was working on where safety glasses were mandatory onsite), and they are transition lenses (essentially they become sunglasses in bright sunlight), and they have polarized lenses (really helps minimize glare under certain conditions). I don't leave home without them.
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