The cost of a piece of metal in your eye.

I have had people actually tease me about the fact that I wear safety glasses (or goggles) for all kinds of things from working in the garage, weed whacking (have a small stone or piece of mulch get shot at my face a few times convinced me yard work was a safety glasses zone).. and at work.. i am a cleaner (Director of Environmental Services in a nursing home) .. was combining two half full bottles of industrial strength toilet bowl cleaner, and one bottle slipped, hit the sink and splashed up and got me in the eye.. thats an experience I will never forget.. thankfully I had no permanent damage.. but its glasses whenever I am playing with the chemicals anymore... lol.. when I get teased, I just chuckle and blow it off.. I only get one set of eyes..

People talking about the wire wheel made me think.. i have had several near misses with the wheel.. strands coming off and sticking me in the arms and whatnot,... one night I was wire wheeling some part of the engine compartment of my Dart.. with a new wheel.. everything was fine.. took a break and went to sit down and felt a shart pain down south if ya catch my drift.. stood back, up, now no matter how I moved, sharp pain... had no clue what was wrong.. walked into the house (which felt like a mile) .. got in the bathroom, went to drop my drawers and found the problem.. a 1" and half strand of wire from the wheel had gone straight through my jeans, and well... lodged in the boys... pulling that out was not fun... my friends still get a chuckle out of that story.. and so far, i am the only one i know of to have that happen LOL!