I've worn glasses for about 9 years now. My brain is so accustomed to them, that even when I don't have them on, I am reaching up to straighten them. It's like I have phantom glasses on. Ooh, phantom glasses. Sounds like I'm a super hero with super expensive phantom glasses on that no one can see. "Watch out! You almost knocked off my phantom glasses!" and then I'd adjust them carefully. All I need is a cape. Super Carrot and her phantom glasses! Seriously though, when I don't have them on, and I go to adjust them, I realize that I'm grabbing for nothing then sorta turn it into a rub or something. Kinda like when you go to pick your nose and you realize someones there watching you, so you just rub the side of your nose instead? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Don't deny it.
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OKAY! So I'm a nose picker! Takes one to know one...
Them are fightin' words Melissa. Put up yer dukes.
It's like you have a hidden camera and can see into my life. Scary!
I've worn either glasses or contacts for...let's see....I'll have to count....gulp...25 years. I do the same thing with the phantom glasses! I even act like I was just rubbing my nose if I do it and realize that someone is watching me. :)
The worst thing for me is when I wear my glasses and then at the end of the day while I am washing my face I forget, and rummage around in my eyeballs trying to take out my contacts. It is a panicky feeling untill I see my glasses lying on the counter mocking me.
Lafawnduh
Well, what about trying to find your glasses, searching the house, only to realize you're already wearing them?! Have you ever done that? Please say Yes!
That dude is scary!
I still look at the wall where there once was a clock. It's been gone four weeks. It's getting on my nerves, I can't stop myself. Is it kinda like that Carrot with a cape, is it?
I'm too vain to wear glasses. I went four years blind because my parents refused to get me contacts. =P
Hmm...I don't wear glasses so I've never experienced that, but I'm always pointing out cool fire trucks or construction vehicles to my kids in the back seat when they're not there. It's so rare that I go anywhere without them that It's just a habit, whether they're in the car with me or not! :)
I hear you. I've worn glasses since 3rd grade. The few years I could wear contacts, phantom glasses was a problem. Now that I have to wear glasses (eyes are too dry for contacts), the phantom is a sad reality.
Does that mean that you are like Superman/Clark Kent, only your alter ego disguise is sometimes invisible? But when you are wearing the invisible glasses no one realizes you are Super Carrot disguised as regular Carrot without glasses? I bet when people see you adjusting nothing they are just even more convinced that you are regular you (who is not really regular, but superfantabulous!)
Heffalump wins. IMNTBHO.
Oh, Carrot/Super Carrot win also.
Do boys makes passes at girls who wear phantom glasses?
"Hi, I'm Crap Happy Mama. Not only am I the President of the Nose Pickers Club, but I'm also a client."
I once headed up the Nose Picker Flickers Club until we had to close down thanks to a costly lawsuit. Who knew that dried crusty boogers could be considered projectiles and actually blind someone?!!??
Hmmmm..... I have made to many confessions today. I can not confess to that.......
But I will confess that I have alway wanted glasses, but my eyes work to well. You guys are lucky to have glasses.... No Fair!
Sometimes I have phantom colostomy sensations....ummm....it's undescribable. Guess you had to be there.
indescribable too.
B-I'm laughing so hard at your comment. For a couple years after having babies I would have these little flutters that I would swear were babies kicking me. Obviously it was gas--otherwise I had aliens or Do you think it's sort of the same thing?
It probably is sort of the same thing. Definitely gas.
Easier to hide...but like pushing in the clutch on an automatic?
b.--funny.
e-dub--me too.
carrot--maybe the postman confiscated the contraband...
You know what I hate is losing my glasses, and then not being able to see them because I can't see without them. Kind of the Velma thing. "I can't see a thing without my glasses! Including my lost glasses, which are about to be stepped on by Scooby!"
HAHAHAHA. Okay, I adjust my "glasses" all day long--and I'm generally wearing contacts. I'm thrilled to know I'm not alone.
And I TOTALLY get the phantom "baby kicks" in my abdomen--and I ain't pregnant, nosirree. It makes me wonder how many times when i was pregnant that I chalked little sensations up to "kicks" that in reality had nothing to do with the baby at all... kinda embarrassing, no?
(Oh-No-You-DIDN'T just call me a nose picker!!!)
Is that like how amputees have phantom itches on their lost parts?
Mary--I like that you said "lost parts" I think Carrot told me about some lost pen's (spelled it right for ya) this one time.
I just keep coming back to gaze into crazy man's eyes...ahh..that is better.
I'j;l l repond lATER when I fon'yt habhen a baby on my lap.
later gator
ha ha, i do exactly what suzanne does! i point out cool stuff to my kids when they're not in the car. it's really lame.
and me, like millie, always forget where i put my glasses and then take my contacts out and walk around groping for them. paul always lectures me, "aubrey, if you'd put them in the same place every time..." bah! what's the fun in that?
and phantom baby kicks in the belly, now THAT is wierd. because they're not quite gassy, but just the right feeling of a baby being in there. but there's no baby. wierd.
OKAY, so the thing i was going to comment on before i felt the obsessive need to read everyone else's comments--WHEN you think someone waved at you and you wave back at them, only to realize they weren't waving at you, so you kind of just look away or just pat your head feeling like a retard. that somehow seems to happen to me a lot because we see a lot of people we know, either from the complex or our ward, driving down the road or whatnot and yeah, that was my original comment. now i'm done.
:)
when I realized I was doing that a few years ago I started straightening them on the side, so that if they weren't on, I was touching my ear.
NOW, that I don't have them at all, I have to tuck my hair behind my ear a lot - its shorter on that side ....
I wear glasses but I don't do that. But I do pick my nose.
Amanda, I DO have a camera in everyones houses.
Lafawnduh, 'Tis a sad day when your glasses mock you.
Elizabeth, YOu must not have that bad of eyesight, if you can look for your glasses, be wearing them and not even notice a difference.
Pj, Er...yes?
Kimberly, I don't know what to say.
Suzanne, that is the funniest comment.
Julie, let's hug.
Heffalump, yes.
NCS, I agree.
Crap happy, are you Elastic in disguise?
Mom2, Lucky? oh please. Go get some drugstore glasses if you wish you had them.
B, that's funny
Elizabeth, you're talking to b. I won't interrupt.
B, you're talking to Elizabeth, I won't interrupt.
Glitters, lol, I've done that.
Compulsive, still nothing. :(
Millie, I am so blind, I have to ask someone to look for them
'Twas Brillig that picked her nose!
Mary, maybe so
He ain't crazy, he's my brother.
Gordon, after a while crocodile
Aubrey, I'm always waving to the neighbors, and they never wave back. Then I end up pretending I'm waving at someone behind them.
Dallas, Welcome! LOL, I'm a nose pusher. No, not a picker. Oh, alright. I'm both.
Carronin, I hear as long as you don't pick your friends noses you're okay.
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