milhouse

i feel so guilty. you know how on TV you see characters like milhouse from the simpsons who are virtually blind when they lose their glasses? and like you laugh when they wake up and pat around for their glasses or when they drop them and step on them while looking for them or something?

well, i was one of those people who laughed to myself.

after all, i thought, that's so exaggerated - i mean it doesn't happen in real life.

... or does it?

i'd just finished english and was walking along the corridor to commerce class. patting my head, i noticed that my bobby pins were still in after finding my fringe irritating. my glasses were also still on! i must look like a real dork. so i removed my glasses and put them in my glasses case. with my glasses case in my right hand, i undid my bobby pins with my left. the one on the left side of my head ... the one on the right and the other one on the right. but while doing this with two other bobby pins in my hand, i felt that feeling that something slipped out of my hand and thought i heard it hit the floor and that little vibration as it hit the floor (upon reflection, i doubt this really happened. i mean feeling and hearing the bobby pin hit the floor amongst a busy corridor with around 50 girls? unlikely. but still, i thought i heard and felt it).

so, naturally, i look down to find my bobby pin. AND I AM MET WITH A HAZE OF PURPLY GREY BLUE! the walls are light blue ... the carpet is that purply bluey grey like a cross of these:

yeah. well. all of a sudden i was in an 'OMG MY EYESIGHT IS THIS BAD!?!?!?!' and that whole sudden realisation, tears-run-to-eyes thing where im like WHAT HAVE I DONE??!? and i knew that if i bent down to find it i would have to pat around for a bit cause i like to wear glasses at the dinner table to see the food properly.

and, automatically, i paused and just stood there. pretended like i was waiting for a friend. and i was jamming up the corridor, but anyway. then i pretended i was like OH maybe i should put my glasses on. so i put my glasses on slowly like i wasnt doing anything weird. and then i pretended i just dropped something and bent down to pick up my bobby pin. it was right next to my foot.

then i walked to commerce. i now will never laugh at milhouse again.