[stylist] Beauty...In the Eye of the Beholder

[David Andrews]

My favorite artificial eye story is that there was a group of blind 
persons out on the street in a major U.S. city.  Somehow one of the 
persons who had artificial eyes had one drop out onto the 
street.  Members of the group were searching for it when a sighted 
person stopped and asked if he could help.  They said yes, and he 
asked "what does what you are looking for look like."  The person who 
had lost the eye popped the other one out immediately, and said "like this."

Dave

At 04:39 PM 2/16/2009, you wrote:
>With all the discussion of love and eyes and the like, I wanted to 
>share a humorous story:
>In 1992, after losing my sight to diabetic complications, I 
>developed infections and it was necessary for both of my eyes to be 
>removed. Almost ten years later, I met and married the love of my 
>life, who happens to be sighted. Our connection was based in our 
>shared Native American culture and the fact that we're both writers. 
>My husband new of my prosthetic eyes from the start, but I preferred 
>to keep the cleaning process private. I didn't want him seeing me 
>without my "eyes" on. One morning, after he had left for work, I 
>removed them and put them in a pan of boiling water on the stove: a 
>procedure I've since learned will damage the surface, but at the 
>time I had been misinformed. Suddenly, I heard the key in the door 
>and...surprise! Hubbies home, I'm standing in the kitchen eyeless, 
>and my baby blues are staring up from a pan of boiling water. The 
>beautiful punch line: He walked in, not noticing the mortified look 
>on my face, saw the steam rising from the stove, and said, "What's cooking?"
>Seven years later, I'm no longer boiling my now replaced pair of 
>eyes; a pair which my husband assisted in choosing the color, which 
>we both found very romantic, and I know without a doubt that this 
>guy loves me...with or without eyes.
>Amy
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