Yellow Contact Lenses

Mistakes

This story is more funny than it is embarrassing, but this really did happen to me several years ago when I was a high school senior.

I got home really late one night from babysitting the brats across the street. I was dog-tired and just wanted to go to bed.

I went to remove my contact lenses and put them to soak. I must have been half out of it, because instead of reaching for the contact lens solution, I ended up reaching for a bottle of Murine eye drops instead.

I didn't realize what I had done until the next morning when I went to put my contacts in. Suddenly everything I looked at had this yellow tint. While I'm no fashion statement, I'm sure I wasn't the only high school boy who would rather die than be caught dead having his crush see him wearing glasses! So I wore my contacts to school and didn't think anything of it. It didn't darn on why everyone kept staring at me until I looked in the mirror and noticed that the yellow contacts against my baby blue eyes was the recipe for bright neon green eyes! They were about the same color as my cat's eyes. It was so funny. My friends all thought I was stoned or something. What's worse, is when I tried calling different optical companies, asking if there was anything I could do to restore my contacts back to their original condition. One poor receptionist about fell out of her chair laughing so hard when I told her what had happened. I ended up having to buy a new pair of contacts, but had to put up with green eyes for 2 weeks while waiting for the replacements to arrive. My parents were none-too-happy about having to buy new contacts, but they sure laugh about it now.