I was very happy to find one of those "press on" LED lights you can use to illuminate dark rooms at the local Bed, Bath and Beyond. I had been looking for one for quite a while. It was on a rack of various items that stretched from the floor to the ceiling, on the very bottom rack just a few inches off the floor. I was so excited to find it I swooped down to grab one....
....and promptly impaled my left eye on an empty rung two levels up.
That's right...I said "impaled".
By some miracle the empty rung hit me on the left corner of my eye, and slid into my eye socket about an inch, partially dislodging my eyeball.
A half-inch to the right and I would have punctured my eyeball and been blinded in one eye.
The little rung thingee got stuck between my eye and the socket. Did I mention it hurt?
...and it got stuck there.
I'm standing, crouched over a display at Bed Bath and Beyond, with a rubber coat metal display hanger stuck in my eye socket.
Not my best day.
I gingerly pulled back and was able to pull myself off the metal display hanger. My eye made this sucking "glorp" sound that sounded ten times worse with the echo inside my head when I finally pulled it off (probably took all of three seconds, but make no mistake, that was possibly the longest three seconds in my life).
A little blood from a small cut on the corner of my eye and a lot of involuntary tears.
It started swelling up shut so I drove home (thankfully only a mile) and put an ice pack on it.
No lasting damage but it hurts to look to the left today. I think my eyeball itself is bruised.
(and in all the excitement I never did buy that stupid light!)
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