Embarrassing Stories: Getting What I Deserve

Matt and I were at a friends house watching a movie after having a lovely dinner with them and seeing their new apartment.  It was getting late and my contacts getting dry and, I of course don't carry eye drops.  So i go to the bathroom knowing that my friend also wears contacts and would have saline solution in her medicine cabinet.

 Now we all know the rules when it comes medicine cabinets at someone else's house, everyone looks but no one touches.  This particular friend and i are quite close so i felt like it would be okay if i borrowed some saline solution and that i didn't need to ask. 

So i squirted what i thought was solution on my contact and rubbed it around and proceeded to put the contact into my eye.  Instantaneously the burning fires of hell were all up in my looking ball, nearly bringing me to my knees, however my shame of breaking this cardinal rule of "ask first" i muffle my sobs.  My eye instinctively clams up to protect itself from further harm only it's trapping the infected contact in my socket.  I pry my eye open to pull the contact out and I am unsuccessful.  i keep trying and end up scratching my eye with my nails in the process only to find out i got it out the first time and it just fell on the counter.  i begin trying to rinse and my eye just wont open to get a good splash.  I try to clean off my contact with water and I manage to get it back into my eye. 

As soon as i can kind of see i grab the bottle of Aosept Brand Satan's Spit and it says 'cleaning solution for soft contact lenses'.  It has a picture of a contact lens on the front, one would assume that it was safe to put in your eyes, but no it's like soap for your contacts and contains 3% hydrogen peroxide.  bloody lovely.  so my eye was all red and bleary and shrunken.  that's right shrunken, it was visibly smaller than it was before. 

I rejoin the group quietly too ashamed to tell anyone what had happened.  We finish the movie and I still manage to drive us home.

Moral of the story:  Ask first and your friends will surely let you borrow the things you need.  If you don't, may your eyes be burned out by misleading products.