Public Contact Lense Insertion

I go training after work sometimes. Not wanting to waste valuable training, I on occasion hygenically insert my contact lenses in the bathrooms at work. I am still crap at putting them in, so I have to put them in at the mirror. Sometimes people walk in when I'm doing this and although I can't see them I imagine some of them may be giving me dirty looks (paranoid schizophrenic). How do you feel about this important issue?

ams

i wear contacts too and I know some of my friends are freaked out at the sight of me sticking my finger in my eye! If they are looking at you its probably out of curiosity to see how you do it - I doubt they think you're a freak...you're in the bathroom for gods sake.

I frequently have the same issue when my contact falls out of my eye somewhere stupid like on the bus.

Let them stare away!

seamus

Ì've done it in work a few times. Never had any comments. If people think it's disgusting they have the option of not looking.

jellie

ha thats weird, had a conversation about this yesterday. my friend took hers off on the plane & the person beside her looked at her with total disgust.

Tar.Aldarion

It's absolutely fine. Disgusting? Hah.
You are even doing it in a bathroom.

seamus

seamus wrote:

Ì've done it in work a few times. Never had any comments. If people think it's disgusting they have the option of not looking.

Yes but you if you walk into an otherwise empty bathroom except for the guy in the corner apparently gouging himself in the eye, you're bound to look.

InFront

Thats not disgusting at all, unless you have some sort of ocular phobia. There are much more disgusting things that people do in public. Examples: burping, blowing their nose, (or worse), speaking with mouth full, putting their hands in their trousers, sticking a finger in their ears, etc. Scum!

Contacts doesnt even come close

Terry

what do these people do when they see it being done in an ad on the telly?

there are some really fu(king touchy people out there.

ixoy

These are quite possibly the same people who'd walk away from a urinal without washing their hands...

It's not even an issue of hygeine since you have to wash your hands before inserting the contact...

Ickle Magoo

Some people are just really wierd about eyes....touching them, crossing them, etc....

JohnK

I've been known to do it myself from time to time so it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

themole

i have done it myself and find no problem with it.

what i myself don't like is poeple who leave the containers which the contacts come in on the sink. happens a fair bit in the toilets near me.

WhiteWashMan

first ive heard of it tbh.

trying to take out lenses tha tyou dont have, now thats disgusting...

Keith C

Yes ive done that only once or twice (thankfully) blind drunk trying to take out a contact lens that has already been taken out. i.e pinching the eyeball!!
Eye was still red the next morning, luckily no damage done.

seamus

Deleted User wrote:

Yes but you if you walk into an otherwise empty bathroom except for the guy in the corner apparently gouging himself in the eye, you're bound to look.

Ah, but that's a totally separate issue. The rule of the toilet applies - you are not permitted to look at anyone else in a toilet, ever, unless they're showing you a scar or talking to you directly.

trying to take out lenses tha tyou dont have, now thats disgusting...

Been there, done that. Your conjunctiva doesn't like being pulled to one side

Ruu_Old

Don't have a problem with it myself and have seen it a few times.

Roen

WhiteWashMan wrote:

first ive heard of it tbh.

trying to take out lenses tha tyou dont have, now thats disgusting...

Done it a hundred times when drunk
I have no probs putting lenses in anywhere really but I have been looked at oddly by strangers, they seem to think you're shooting up or something.
Then again I work in a lens manufacturing facility and I've been wearing them for 16 years now so I'm well used to them.

antSionnach

vom! rot! ming! down with it!

No thats pretty sick tbh. Dont touch your eyes or your bellybutton in public some people have problems with that. The worst is when someone starts talking to you while doing it and you can see them touching it...:o Eyes are disgusting in fairness

Siogfinsceal

I do this all the time - in work , at nightclubs (I wear dailies and sometimes if my eyes get dry I need to take them out, use drops and a fresh pair). If people dont like it they can just get over it Ive seen other people do far worse things in a toilet than taking a lense out!!

Siogfinsceal

Keith C wrote:

Yes ive done that only once or twice (thankfully) blind drunk trying to take out a contact lens that has already been taken out. i.e pinching the eyeball!!
Eye was still red the next morning, luckily no damage don+e.

oh my god i thought i was the only one - hurt like a b*tch for days and was bright red i felt so stupid

robinph

Roen wrote:

I have no probs putting lenses in anywhere really but I have been looked at oddly by strangers, they seem to think you're shooting up or something.

I did used to get some disgusted looks from co workers when shooting up* in work before, but they now learnt to mind their own business and not watch any more. I don't think that pokeing myself in the eye for replacing contact lenses would cause mush of an issue with them now.



* prescription medication only, honest.

themole

Siogfinsceal wrote:

oh my god i thought i was the only one - hurt like a b*tch for days and was bright red i felt so stupid

I too must hang my head and admit to doing this while drunk

WhiteWashMan

i think every person ive ever known who has worn contacts has done it at one stage or another.
even just to the point where they realise they are in fact poking themselves in the eye

Siogfinsceal

Siogfinsceal wrote:

I do this all the time - in work , at nightclubs (I wear dailies and sometimes if my eyes get dry I need to take them out, use drops and a fresh pair). If people dont like it they can just get over it Ive seen other people do far worse things in a toilet than taking a lense out!!

I'm of the the same opinion. I just know a few people who are touchy about this so I was wondering generally how people felt about this.

LovelyHurling

I dont find it disgusting at all unless Im the one putting in the lens, which would be a bit stupid cos I dont wear glasses.

Contacts are strange ones. I know some girls who look better with glasses on for some reason.

cooker3

Yeah, getting contacts changes how you deal with yuor eyes. Before I got them, I would be almost scared to touch my eyes in fear of going blind but now, I always poking my eye without a 2nd thought and I have done it in work a few times and never had any funny looks, well at least never noticed them.

28064212

robinph wrote:

I did used to get some disgusted looks from co workers when shooting up* in work before.....
* prescription medication only, honest.

LOL, brilliant. I must see if I can get some relatively innocuous medication that can be injected. I'd do it absolutely everywhere in public

EDIT:
On-topic, I wear contacts, occasionally put them on sitting at my desk before I leave work, would never have considered that someone might find it uncomfortable

Miguel_Sanchez

ixoy wrote:

It's not even an issue of hygeine since you have to wash your hands before inserting the contact...

You have to what now?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Wouldn't give it a second thought tbh... anyone has a problem with you adjusting your contacts, screw 'em, it's their problem.
Big babies should try watching more surgery on TV.

Miguel_Sanchez

antSionnach wrote:

Eyes are disgusting in fairness

That's the oddest thing I've heard anyone say in ages.

dabbler2004

I think most people I know are just fasinated by me inserting my lenses. It has that 'can't look, must look' appeal about it.

Anyway I think people spitting in view of others has to be the most offputting sight going...lenses just don't compare.

Crucifix

*shudder* All that drunken eye poking you hear about is why I want to move onto the day and night lens ASAP.
As for in-work-insertion, I work in an opticians \o/

InFront

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Wouldn't give it a second thought tbh... anyone has a problem with you adjusting your contacts, screw 'em, it's their problem.
Big babies should try watching more surgery on TV.

I know lots of people in medicine who are squemish about these things. The face is hard to dissect but the eye is worse. You get intelligent, serious 20 year old adults (not all girls) turn into a babble of jiggling screechers as soon as you even touch the eyes on a cadaver. Vision has always been integral to human survival, its natural for people to have unexplained hang-ups about touching their eyes.

Gandhi

I've never tried to take out a non-existent lens while drunk.

What I have done (drink involved), is woken up with my lenses in, and put another pair of lenses on over them. I was gazing in awe at the mirror, wondering how on earth I couldn't see with my lenses in, and better yet, how I had perfect vision without them a few seconds earlier. I thought it was a miracle until I figured it out.

*Angel*

I don't see anything wrong with putting them in or taking them out in public, I do it quite a lot, but yeah it's not the nicest thing in the world to watch, so don't!

faceman

Deleted User wrote:

I go training after work sometimes. Not wanting to waste valuable training, I on occasion hygenically insert my contact lenses in the bathrooms at work.

i often do it at my desk. dont see whats so disgusting about it. Sometimes i have to sit near fat people. The site of some of them is more disgusting than seeing someone pick their nose.

Madge

faceman wrote:

dont see whats so disgusting about it. Sometimes i have to sit near fat people. The site of some of them is more disgusting than seeing someone pick their nose.

ouch!

Cake Fiend

antSionnach wrote:

Eyes are disgusting in fairness

No, you're wrong.

DonkeyStyle \o/

InFront wrote:

Vision has always been integral to human survival, its natural for people to have unexplained hang-ups about touching their eyes.

Well there's 'touching your eyes'... then there's being grossed out about seeing someone else touching their eyes from a few feet away, knowing full well that they're not going to pop them out and start cutting them up.
I know what you're saying though... the first few times I put in contacts my head and hands were shaking... I was flinching a lot... it took a long time to get them in... there was a serious mental block about it.
But I couldn't say I was ever freaked out by seeing other people do it... let alone shooting them disgusted looks.

Personally, in the insertion/removal of a contact lens, my finger never actually touches my eyeball... my fingers touch the contact lens... the contact lens touches the eye (or rather it foats on the eye)... there's very little contact at all and takes about 3 seconds... unless someone's making a complete balls of it - then it becomes a teary bloodshot mess. :eek:

L31mr0d

i'm actually amazed at the amount of people who wear contact lenses on here. I wear dailies and everyone else I know that has bad sight wears glasses. I'm also a southpaw so I've always felt in the minority.

Regarding contacts:
1. I've done the "try and take out the phantom contact" after already taking it out
2. I've woken up after leaving them in and put in another set on top of them
3. I've actually gone on holiday for a week before without any other contacts or solution and just had to leave the one pair in. I had eyes like a lizard after that, in fact the contacts had vacuumed themselve to my eyeball.
4. I usually put them in in public, and if I see someone looking at me gets squimish, I turn my eyelid inside out and push my eyeball into my socket. They don't seem to mind me just putting in my contact after that

Dave!

no problem with it. Anyone with a problem with it needs a slap in the face. Whiners.

Pet

Somehow, after coming home COMPLETELY pissed the other night, I managed to remove AND clean both my contact lenses. I have very hazy memories of this, and of also showering and putting all the bedcovers back on my bed (all the while being drunk).

But I have tried to remove non-existant contact lenses in the past, resulting in an angry red conjunctiva.

I frequently put in my lenses in college or work, and though I've gotten a few funny looks, nobody has ever looked disgusted. And if they do, screw them.

Terry

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Well there's 'touching your eyes'... then there's being grossed out about seeing someone else touching their eyes from a few feet away, knowing full well that they're not going to pop them out and start cutting them up.
I know what you're saying though... the first few times I put in contacts my head and hands were shaking... I was flinching a lot... it took a long time to get them in... there was a serious mental block about it.
But I couldn't say I was ever freaked out by seeing other people do it... let alone shooting them disgusted looks.

Personally, in the insertion/removal of a contact lens, my finger never actually touches my eyeball... my fingers touch the contact lens... the contact lens touches the eye (or rather it foats on the eye)... there's very little contact at all and takes about 3 seconds... unless someone's making a complete balls of it - then it becomes a teary bloodshot mess. :eek:

dude...relax...people...have...done...worse...

just picture having a circumcision the next time you see someone put a contact lens in and count yourself lucky that you were not born in america or the middle east.

DonkeyStyle \o/

julep wrote:

just picture having a circumcision the next time you see someone put a contact lens in and count yourself lucky that you were not born in america or the middle east.

I was born in America and the middle east.
You relax.