# I, Strain, have eye strain. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585 "2001-02-08T03:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/1 "2001-02-08T03:55:10Z")
So, I went to the gym to do my back and biceps tonight. And what do I injure? My freakin’ right eye. I don’t know exactly how I managed to do that. It was probably from trying to check out two girls simultaneously while running on the treadmill. So, yeah, I suppose I deserve it. But my headset’s busted and there was nothing good on TV, so I had to do _something_ to keep me entertained. Now I’m just doing my damnedest not to move my eyes; I feel like a robot. Yes, this was a goofy, rambling post, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for the stupid thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/2 "2001-02-08T05:46:04Z")
great thread title! maybe next time you should just pick _one_ girl to ogle 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/3 "2001-02-08T05:48:26Z")
Poor baby, but shouldn’t you be a bit more discreet about checking out girls? I mean, doesn’t it take quite a lot to strain your eyes? Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/4 "2001-02-08T06:36:14Z")
Well, the treadmill is on the second floor loft and the girls I look at are on the first floor and that railing gets in the way not to mention that first floor ceiling. ::Sigh:: They just make it so _difficult_. ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/5 "2001-02-08T12:42:55Z")
I too, have strained eyes and am in the same predicament as you. Although my eyestrain is a flu by-product - not from oogling women. Everytime I move my eyes, a thunderous sickly pain washes through my entire frontal lobe. Yesterday I had to drive. That was the worst. Today I’m staying in front of the computer. Eyes forward. Look out post count. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/6 "2001-02-09T23:25:43Z")
F.P. Kitty, it depends on the girl one is ogling. I’m sure you’re be worthy of a Tex Avery style, howling wolf, bugeyed, boinging leer but it can be extremely painful. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-strain-have-eye-strain/53585/7 "2001-02-10T01:48:03Z")
(or, at least more embarassing.) I was eye~flirting with a cute guy in a pickemup truck at a light once. When the light changed, I was so fixated with his cute blond surfer guy smile that I side swiped a traffic signal pole while turning & looking back at him. Feh. Thank God he was headed in the opposite direction.