Look at me, says the optometrist.
To be clear reading this my first thought was “that sounds like a bad idea” until he explained to he intended for him to wait.
Which makes sense, and while i am smart enough not to shove my face in boiling water i am not smart enough to realize immediately what he meant.
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Instructions unclear, now I’ve wet my pants
Doctors see hundreds of patients and if one of them would do something horrifically wrong and stupid, they would be the one doctor would remember and try to caution everyone else about it.
I has a similar experience with my dentist. She was asking me how I floss and told me that I should gently remove the floss from my teeth and not just yank it with the full force so to not damage the enamel. I was horrified and asked her if one of her patients done that and she responded with yes.
the fact that not one, but two people ITT claimed that maybe the optometrist shouldn’t have said “boiling” in the first place really drives the point home
They need to go to the optometrist.
Tbh, the first time I read this meme I understand boiling and was like wtf, that’s crazy, until I read the next part.
Why not just say distilled water? Or the litany of eye drops out there?
Despite the popular image created by the inefficient US for profit healthcare system, doctors are actually fine with providing low cost alternatives, if the medical principles are followed and the end result is the desired effect. It is dumb to send people to buy stuff that is readily and easily achievable at home. Industrially made stuff like distilled water is for clinics and hospitals who don’t have time and have to go through hundreds of patients a day. A person who is presumably at home under medical leave has time to boil water and wait for it to cool down. No need to finance the orphan crushing machine.
Both can get expensive, at least for some. If your needing to flush it every couple of hours then £/$5 a bottle gets expensive.
It’s better for people to have an easy option given, than have them figure “I can get away with tap water” can make it worse.
Because presumably it is no extra effort to boil water at home vs sending them to buy something?
There’s just far less chance of a misunderstanding with something that comes room temperature.
Not everybody has the means and access to a supermarket easily while sick.
Can super glue be used as an alternative to eye drops tho?
Why yes! Of course it can! But only once.
I count twice, but maybe you already lost an eye
Only if you let it cool down first? I don’t know.
Don’t be ridiculous, clearly it says you have to boil it first.
Never put salt in your eyes!
Maybe he was trying to avoid this situation?
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You probably need to re-read the text…
OP is in past tense haha.
It’s a past participle, which is the same as the past perfect form of a verb. For example it would be a broken tool, not a broke tool.
them there lingo do be changin’ tho, fr fr
Yeah for sure, there are cases or dialects where people sub the past tense in for the PP (eg “I don’t want any of your old broke shit.”) But even in those dialects I’d guess the PP is standard more often than not-- I don’t think too many people would accept a “stole car” over a stolen one, or a “blew fuse” instead of blown.
true, but i don’t think it’s that far off, especially “a stole car” teeters right on the edge of being perfectly fine to my brain in the right social context. Seems very similar to how people having started saying “it’s giving X” rather than “It’s giving X vibes”
I won’t remember that honestly, but nice to know briefly before it falls back out of my head.
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They don’t use the wrong word though. They say to use “boiled water”.
