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

In article <B4LghuFgTLsHFwV0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 David Allsopp <daa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

Last eye exam the optician said that now they have magnification great 
enough they don't need to use the air puff, they can examine directly 
and it was painless enough. No dilation required. Progress marches on.