One morning I woke up and my left eye is bright red and extremely painful. I couldn't figure out why, since it was fine the night before and I couldn't remember doing anything to it. After an agonizing day, I finally cave and stop by Urgent Care to see what they tell me. At first the Dr. thinks I have pink-eye, but then she puts some UV stuff in my eye, turns on a blacklight and turns out the room lights.
"Oh my god!"
"What??? Is it bad???"
"It looks like you have... road rash on your eye!"
At that point I remember that I wear wrist braces at night (for carpal tunnel) and probably scraped the hard velcro across my eye while I was asleep (sooo glad I was not awake to feel that). She prescribes me some topical antibiotic and sends me on my way.
The next day at work, one of the guys in my company comes over and starts talking to me (just to complete the setting, this guy is probably near 50, and a good honest upright citizen). He notices my eye and asks what's wrong.
"I wear these wrist things at night and somehow managed to scrape the velcro across my eye while asleep."
He looked at me oddly. "Wrist things...?"
"For carpal tunnel."
He gets a relieved and embarrassed expression on his face. "Oh, I was picturing some sort of bondage thing!"
I about puked I was laughing so hard.
On a side note, my first pair of carpal tunnel braces were the typical ones (ugly beige vinyl), but the current pair I have now are the most bondage pair of carpal tunnel wrist braces I have seen in my entire life! They're black, have all these black velcro straps going all over the place, and have a red satin inside! I actually started laughing when the nurses gave them too me. They were rather confused but I wouldn't explain.
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