Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

In message <foq86k$97n$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, James Nicoll 
<jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>       [I also have an uncontrollable flinch reflex when it comes
>to the eye pressure test that involves prodding my eye with a probe,
>although I am not nearly as embarrassed about that as having to make
>an ego roll every six months when it is time to get my teeth checked.
>In fact, I'd like to ask the guy who invented that device what part
>of "prob my eye with a rigid object" he or she [1] expected people to
>like?]
>
>1: I joke. I can't imagine a woman thinking "Yeah, just run a solid
object
>into their open eye at slow speed. That'll work. And it's not like I can
>safely avoid having my eye pressure checked.

Don't they have the puff-of-air machines in Canada?  They've even made 
it to the high-street opticians here in the UK -- I've had my eye 
pressure checked by them for my last two exams, so that's five years at 
least.
-- 
David Allsopp