Public Contact Lense Insertion

21-07-2006 01:53PM #1

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 · 21-07-2006 02:00PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:01PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:03PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:05PM

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

21-07-2006 02:06PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:07PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:08PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:13PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:13PM

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

JohnK · 21-07-2006 02:15PM

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

themole · 21-07-2006 02:16PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:17PM

first ive heard of it tbh.

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

Keith C · 21-07-2006 02:30PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:48PM

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 · 21-07-2006 02:56PM

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

Roen · 21-07-2006 03:03PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:07PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:11PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:12PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:22PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:23PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:35PM

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

21-07-2006 03:37PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:42PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:48PM

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.

21-07-2006 03:48PM

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 · 21-07-2006 03:56PM

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/ · 21-07-2006 04:00PM

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 · 21-07-2006 04:02PM

antSionnach wrote:

Eyes are disgusting in fairness

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

dabbler2004 · 21-07-2006 05:15PM

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.

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