re: Anyone have a glass eye or have intimate knowledge of someone who does?

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I see

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More than I do.

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sorry

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I don't know why. Zero need to be.

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i know you're a cool guy around here

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A salesman named Clive who worked for the old Ewart chain company out of England used to call on us many years ago. Clive was a funny bastard and his right eye was glass.

While discussing Clive's antics with someone he used to travel with he told me one of my favorite work related stories ever.

They were calling on a major project site in the mid 80's - Komati in Sudan - in truly the absolute middle of nowhere. They were in a hotel (think old western tv show type hotel) which had a bar and a single snooker pool table downstairs.

They were sitting there drinking and one of them noticed some of the locals playing pool had taken an interest in them which he surmised wasn't good. He quietly started warning them that they were being watched and maybe it was time to go.

Clive, already loaded, stood up and exclaimed "What, these frickers here?" and pointed to the guys playing pool. He strode over and said "Don't you worry, I'll keep an eye on them."

At which point, Clive popped his eye out and set it down on the pool table.

When that white man pulled his eye out of his head, those poor natives hauled arse and never looked back. Everybody in the place ran, even the bartender.

Clive laughed, washed his eye off in his glass, put it back in his head and finished his drink.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2e7T1bF7E

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I got a gal with just one eye
No depth of field but sweet as pie
And I just don't careo
If her vision is in stereo
To me she'll always be the tops
My sweet little cyclops
She's the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She's the one-eye, one I love
Now you might wonder what she's thinkin' '
Cause it looks like she is winkin'
In arguments I yell and cry
But she just can't see the other side
It's worse than it looks, says her mother '
Cause she's blind in one, blond in the other
She's the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She's the one-eye, one I love
Now how it happened, she just won't spill
Was it scissor sprint or William Tell?
Well the eye got put out and was never found
Gone to take a look around
My Columbo cutie, Popeye punkin'
Sammy Junior, Sandy Duncan
She's the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She's the one-eye, one I love
She's the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She's the one-eye, one I love She's the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye She's the one-eye, one I love Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: George Gershwin / Roland Bach The One I Love lyrics © South Hand Music, C. F. Peters Ltd & Co. Ge, C.f. Peters Ltd & Co

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My 6th grade math teacher had one. It was weird when she'd talk to you as one eye would be looking at you and the other staring out in space. Big African American woman too.

But that was over 40 years ago. She might not even be alive anymore.

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You have to relearn everything . Depth perception? Becomes a guessing game. Blind spots? Quadrupled. You bump into things, turn in to people, and let me tell you, a dead eye lolling around in your head is great for symmetry.

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Agree with all of this fr33!

I lost vision in my left eye 23 yrs ago due to a blunt force injury from a bungee cord I was pulling towards me. I am 43 now. Most days present a challenge at some point. I miss people regularly, bump in to things, still struggle with depth occasionally. It’s frustrating and makes me anxious in large crowds.

I still have my injured left eye (severed optic nerve and retina damage) and it has been slowly shrinking size. Most people don’t notice unless they are close, but it sounds like I will eventually have to remove and get a prosthetic. I’ve had a couple of aesthetic corrective surgeries since my injury to realign and stretch pupil.

My Opthamologist has consistently told me to keep my injured eye as long as possible. He has said that a prosthetic will not track as well as my current. So staying the course and praying for the best.

FWIW, my life has been infinitely better since my injury at 20 yrs old. I was really “blind” to the world and to others around me prior to losing my vision. I have a completely different perspective of the blessings around me now. Life is really good.

Eye, yie,yie

My cousin, 2 years older, has a glass eye. He had a pocket knife and decided to whittle towards himself and of course the inevitable happened.

I had a boss who sent a memo out about a new hire. He included “…and don’t say anything to him about his GLASS EYE.” (Caps in the memo)

Well of course, now everyone in the office stared at this poor guy’s face trying to figure out which eye was fake.