# Things to keep out of your eye **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268 "2014-06-07T13:22:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/21 "2014-06-08T19:13:13Z")
Friend of a friend tells of mistaking oil of wintergreen for contact lens solution. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/22 "2014-06-08T20:13:43Z")
Fishhooks. I’ve dealt with a handful of these in my career. Link is disabled, if you really want to see it, copy and paste it. If you REALLY want to see it, that is. [![](http://onclickinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wW7tnTV.jpg) ](http://onclickinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wW7tnTV.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/23 "2014-06-08T20:14:42Z")
I have heard that um… _Cock sauce_ also hurts like a MF. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/24 "2014-06-08T21:51:07Z")
YMCA swimming pool water, circa 1968. Had to wash 'em out with boric acid to make them feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/25 "2014-06-08T23:34:36Z")
Hair spray. One morning, trying to get those truly epic 80s bangs and a squirt of _Tame_ hairspray with a partially clogged nozzle went directly into my eye. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/26 "2014-06-09T04:43:18Z")
Penis. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/27 "2014-06-09T10:58:39Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > So, why’d your son call? 😃 He called to thank me for sending him some money. I saw a funny card that involved an inside joke between us. I sent the card and put some cash inside (he is congenitally unemployed).😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/28 "2014-06-09T12:05:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > He called to thank me for sending him some money. I saw a funny card that involved an inside joke between us. I sent the card and put some cash inside (he is congenitally unemployed).😃 Aw, that’s sweet. You’re a nice dad. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/29 "2014-06-09T12:10:23Z")
Why do they call it “no more tears” shampoo? I keep rubbing it into my baby’s eyes every time he cries, and it just makes it worse!!! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/30 "2014-06-09T12:28:45Z")
It’s a shame that lemons and limes are so prone to squirting but also difficult to aim. No telling how many gin & tonics or margaritas have made me tear up. Okay, why did that feel weird to write? Ah, because I mentioned “squirt” in a thread about cock sauce. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/31 "2014-06-10T22:25:31Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Motes Planks even more so. > [@lieu](#): > > No telling how many gin & tonics or margaritas have made me tear up. It’s the lack of same that makes me tear up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/32 "2014-06-10T23:04:50Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#): > > I have heard that um… _Cock sauce_ also hurts like a MF. Did you know that from experience, or did [**LeoBloom** tell you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579227) ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/33 "2014-06-11T01:33:41Z")
My friend sez her husband “kinda likes it” when she “forgets” to wash her hands after chopping the chilis for salsa. Gives him a warm feeling all under. Also a new meaning to “cock sauce”. On the subject of things that dont go in the eyes with contact lenses … My dearly departed mother was fond of repurposing bottles. Once she saved one of my old discarded contact lens solution bottles and put RUBBING ALCOHOL into it (for what purpose I have no idea). Then set it on the bathroom counter. The fact that she scribbled "alcohol on the bottle didnt really help since I was blind w/o the contacts. You dont need much imagination to see the scenario that ensued. Clawing my eye out with a screwdriver would have been less painful. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/34 "2014-06-11T02:56:20Z")
Your thumb. Accidently did it once, years ago. Had to go to the emergency room. The eye has since developed cataracts; not sure if there’s a connection, but it seems possible. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/35 "2014-06-11T04:48:05Z")
A single long hair. Aaaaahhhh… Like a paper cut to the eyeball! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/36 "2014-06-11T06:48:13Z")
Acoustical tile. When a speck of it falls between your eye and eyeglasses and somehow gets lodged that running water can’t flush out, it causes you to be driven to the ophthalmologist while your vision is like looking through a window that’s had milk poured down it. And the ophthalmologist deadens your eyeball, says, “Yep! There it is!” and scoops out a little bit you hope wasn’t your twinkle. And you get to periodically put in eye drops to bathe that miniscule hole that instantly burns like a crater in hell. Kind of like taking a shot of tequila to the eye, but without the worm. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/37 "2014-06-11T07:24:50Z")
[Keep out of eye! Do not drink soap! Dilute! Dilute! OK!](http://www.drbronner.com/DBMS/PEPPERMINT/OLPE04.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/38 "2014-06-11T12:53:53Z")
Last year I refinished our coffee table - polyurathane in the eyes is not good - but I have very shiny eyes now. (It isn’t bad either - the doctor was "well, if it was this or the stripper, you are way better off with this). ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/39 "2014-06-11T13:17:07Z")
Isocyanates. The vapor of these things is bad enough to make you cry and thoroughly ruin your day. Especially after you then spend 15 minutes in an eyewash. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268/40 "2014-06-11T14:27:48Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > And FTR, I’ve gotten hot peppers in my eyes by taking my contacts out. Even hours later and having washed my hands multiple times. While putting the contacts in is slightly worse, because then you have to force your screwed-shut-in-agony eye open to get the fucking thing out again, and this is no fun at all. Ditto on the hours-later-multiple-wash corollary, too. I can still feel the sting, eighteen years later. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-keep-out-of-your-eye/690268.md?page=3)