# Contact lens poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contact-lens-poll/663373>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 13, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contact-lens-poll/663373 "2013-07-13T00:20:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![agilpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@agilpro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agilpro)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contact-lens-poll/663373/21 "2014-12-18T09:11:36Z")

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The poll should of had don’t have a problem with putting them in or taking them out, if it did that would have been my answer. I haven’t worn contacts in years, but I remember getting my first ones; they were the first generation of soft lenses that were pretty thick and had a heating unit to sterilize them each night. I was 15 years old and I blew the eye doctor away because after he showed me how to put them in and take them out, I put them in on the first try and then took them out on the first try. He thought it was a fluke so he had me do it again and so I did and he told me nobody had ever done it in his years in practice. I ended up wearing contacts for three years before switching to glasses and only wearing contacts when I played hockey. When the thinner lenses came out, at first it was harder to put the lenses in, but I quickly mastered it and it again was just as easy to put them in as it was to take them out.

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