The couch that ate my contacts

[helen99]

I have a couch that has the ability to put its occupants to sleep within about a half an hour. The funny thing is, they always deny that they're getting tired, right up to the time they lose consciousness. So one night about three months ago I was sitting on the couch reading, and within minutes, fell asleep. I woke up later to take out my contacts for the night - and they were already out. I was a little puzzled, since I didn't remember actually removing them - but I figured they were in the medicine cabinet where I usually put them.

But the next morning the contacts (and the case they were in) had vanished altogether. After looking everywhere in the house, I finally made an appointment with the optometrist... I never did find them (or the case). Three appointments, an order error, and two adjustments later, the lenses work perfectly! Yay! I can see!

I am convinced that somewhere in Maryland is a couch that can see too...

Comments

[lindsaybits]

something similar happened to me once: i had gone to sleep and left my contacts in. when i woke up, i could only see clearly out of one eye and the eye that i couldn't see out of felt inflamed and itchy; i went to the mirror to see what was up with my eye. i figured the contact had fallen out and my eye had gotten scratched in the process.

i was so very wrong. these were a pair of colored lenses (ahhh, vanity)... and after some very thorough checking for scratches or abraisions on my eye, i noticed something green in the outside corner... further inspection revealed that my contact had gone inside my face. lol. it was the weirdest feeling to pull that sucker back in place. once it was back where it should be, the pain and itching immediately went away and i was fine.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you're talking about - I've had that happen too. I turned my eyelids inside out trying to find the lenses in back of my eyeball, but to no avail. When no irritation developed, I concluded that normal explanations wouldn't explain it...

What I figure is that (being half asleep) I put them on the sink (a big nono). A cat then probably knocked it off the sink and into the toilet. Since I can't see anyway, I never turn on the light at night and probably flushed them.

Or the couch hid them somewhere...