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Weed-whacking? Remember your eye protection, folks!
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Damn I spent ages as a teenage edgelord trying to get makeup to look like I was crying blood and turns out all I had to do was weed whack with no eye protection.
In all seriousness though that sucks and I hope you have a speedy recovery.
He was weed-whacking, not edging.
I'll see myself out
Whacking… edging… it’s all the same. Do it too much and you’ll go blind!
yikes glad ur okay
Thanks buddy, makes for a good lesson lol
I’m going to do something I rarely do - learn from someone else learning the hard way, not from myself learning the hard way. Thank you for your service lol
I love men. You guys are great, don’t ever change💚.
3m Safety glasses with the gasket are the best. Cheap and work very well
You should have seen how quickly I put those in my cart after reading this comment
Always wear full PPE.
This is my setup. Arborists helmet and butchers apron. I have To weed whack 10000 square meters in rocky terrain. Sweating my balls off but it’s better than losing an eye.
Never thought to use an apron before, might have to try that out
The apron stops stones. Small rocks get picked up and hit me so hard they bruise me thru jeans. Also keeps you a lot cleaner.
That is unfortunat rocks are my fav followed by dog shit
This entire thread worries me — I’m the dope that is more concerned with wearing a ratty pair of tennis shoes so they don’t stain green, than any eye protection. I don’t think I’ve ever worn eye protection.
If you want to keep your eye/eyes, Just wear eye protection. If you ever ask yourself or think “hmmm this seems kinda sketchy without glasses” just put them on. Sunglasses make this more practical and less weird than safety goggles😎
In summer I wear a wide brimmed hat, safety glasses, earmuffs, gloves and safety boots while mowing the lawn.
It may be overkill however there has been multiple times when a Little Rock or something has hit my glasses, and well before I wore gloves I once burned my hand pretty badly on the side of the mower, and when I was much younger I was trying to destroy a tree stump with an axe while wearing thongs/ flip flops and that almost ended terribly.
I now get to pretend like I’m some full on yard worker while mowing the lawn, but it’s also just nice to know I’m protected.
Well that definitely sucks.
I worked as a landscaper for a summer and was tasked with using a weed whacker to remove an overgrown area on the companies property. I was actually excited, plug some head phones in, hours of destruction.
Peak of summer I was wearing an undershirt and shorts. There happened to be poison ivy or oak or something in there though, I got a rash all over my arms, surprised I didn’t get it elsewhere but with all the plant material sticking to my legs perhaps it protected me by the time I hit the patch.
Wear goggles, cover everything.
I almost got struck in the eye by a pebble when I was mowing the lawn once. I was so glad my sunglasses were also safety glasses.
Is your eye going to be ok at least?
Oh man lucky you. Pebble honestly would have been worse, but eye will be fine.
On my way to the ER I was thinking of putting on some Stevie wonder in case worst came to worst.
So easy to think that the odds of something actually hitting your eye is too low for it to be a concern… boy was I wrong
Why didn't you use the 'safety squint'? 50% of the time it works all the time - your experience may vary.
I even did the safety head tilt alongside safety squint with great technique. Need to work on my form
SWEET MOTHER OF CHRIST!!!! ARE YOU OKAU????
Thankfully yes! A few days of recovery and antibiotics, got super lucky
Thank fuck, you're okay. I just hope your eye recovers normally.
You went to weed whack.
The weed whacked you.
No safety squint?
Shit. Did you lose the whole eye?
Very lucky, it missed my cornea by about a mm - the doctor got it out and my vision’s still in tact. ALWAYS wear glasses or goggles lol
Did you die?
Yes but they still allow texting and phones in limbo luckily, and I have t mobile
If you had Verizon you’d be screwed.. at least until you got to hell
I went to hell for a bit and Ryan Reynolds was trying to get me to switch to mint mobile
You got two. Keep them.
Amen
Well now ya know. No more safety squints.
No amount of squinting is enough squinting
As a 55-year-old man with industrial deafness, ear protection is a must, too
What???
From a 40 year old with declined hearing?!
Ok, but you look badass with a blood tear.
You single?
Thanks for this, keep telling my wife wear glasses and proper foot where while she cuts in crocks, get home today and our 12 year old is cutting with the whip, told him and her that he should wait till we are home because his older sister wont be able to help much if an accident happens without calling 911.
Showed her this photo.
This sub said no injuries, but it’s weed whacking season and people do really need to know protection is a must so I posted it anyway. If it gets removed so be it, but glad you are adamant about protection and glad this post shows a few people that it’s serious business
Well it's pretty PG of a post...people should get used to seeing blood and small injuries, because if ever something happens to them or someone they won't be much help panicking and seeing blood.
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didnt see it coming huh?
Eye injury pun bingo
Didn’t see it coming ✅
I’ve had a metal piece of wire from grinding with a wire wheel in my eye and had to get it out at the ER. I know the feeling. Sucks! Glad you’re ok!
I thought I was invincible in my twenties. I never wore safety glasses weed whacking. Turns out I was lucky for a long time. Caught a pebble right in the eyeball. Wore safety glasses ever since then. Fast forward to still in the business in my fifties. Cutting grass on my Exmark Zero Turn with safety glasses on. Had a pebble ping off a fence I was near and go under my glasses to get a similar direct hit on the eyeball. Nice red mark on the eyeball for a week or two…
Eye protection AND a mask limit how much gunk your breath in.
Blow your nose after weed whacking without a mask and you’ll understand
He’s so cuteeeeeee
I’ve lived here over 3 years. This year I was push mowing beside our chain link fence and hit a clump of leaves and such. A piece of the chain link shot out the mower and into my shin about 1/2”.
On the bridge side, my stepson thought I was a bit of a badass watching me pull it out of my shin.
Yeah weed whackers can kick all sorts of stuff up I actually have a scratch on my leg currently because I was weed whacking in shorts like a week ago and it smacked something into my shin hard enough to break the skin. I look like a good wearing sunglasses on cloudy days doing yard work but I’d rather looks goofy than lose an eye like OP almost did.
Finding Rex on Reddit was not on my bingo card for today. Glad you are alright! - Alec
Alec what the heck man! What’re you doing here!
Howdy neighbor
Was just looking at your post on IG a moment ago too, crazy incident
At least you can take a cool selfie
I started wearing a full face shield after I hit a fresh patch of dogshit at full RPM. Splattered all over my face, in my eyes and... (drumroll) MY MOUTH!!! Thankfully, it was my dog's shit. So trust me when i say something tastes like shit, I know what I'm talking about.
OP, your eye is bleeding. GO TO THE ER!!!
This gave me a good laugh, thanks for lightening the mood 😂 ER ✅
It looks like he already is, look at the background and the bracelet
You must not have used your safety squints.
For real tho thanks for this reminder, I often forget to wear glasses when weed whacking.
Yikes! Glad you’re okay. Thanks for the new fear!
I always wear sunglasses but holy hell I might go buy some damn swim goggles. Glad you’re safe OP!
Damn man glad you got lucky sadly I learned the hard way too but was less lucky with a shard of metal, recovery time on major eye injuries are a bitch but I'll never forget my eye protection again
Don’t do weed, kids. This post is proof it’s dangerous.
/s (you never know around here)
Forgot your safety squints
Yikes, that's one way to clean your ears, I guess.
Amazing that you got a q-tip in the eye!! That's wild.
Eye protection is a must, I did the same thing to myself a year or two ago mowing my lawn lol
thats why i do it with my eyes closed
My father in law was line trimming one day. I walked up to him to ask him a question totally unrelated, and a pebble came up and hit me right in the side of the nose. Almost lost my damn eye over it. I don't fuck around with eye protection anymore.
I'm reading this as I'm taking a break from weed-wacking... wearing safety glasses tho :D
Oh shit! You unlocked your Mangekio sharingan! What power did you get? 😅
Maybe I’ll put on some sunglasses when trimming today… Trim or die 🤘
Well that’s one way to unlock your Mangekyou
I was weed eating a couple weeks ago, a rock launched out and smacked me right dead in the center of my eye!
Luckily I was wearing my safety sunglasses.
Always wear protection kids!
Wouldn’t want a nature-made bullet to penetrate or impregnate any type of human orifice.
I just wised up and started wearing safety glasses a few years ago. Recently took a rock to the glasses. Might have lost an eye!
I work in an ophthalmology clinic and saw someone for a similar incident just earlier today. Just add it to the pile.
Probably pretty frustrating, such an easy thing to prevent. The ophthalmologist I had was great, though. Good work
Considering I still occasionally get hit in the face with various debris while using a string trimmer(and wearing safety glasses), I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t protect themselves. Even sunglasses would be better than nothing.
Been there, hit a rock once weed whacking, bounced off the shed and hit me right in the eye. Safety glasses every time now. Glad you'll be alright.
Only time you see blood is when a ninja cries
Shoulda used your safety squints
I had a landscaping job when I was 17 that involved weed whacking a giant hill because my boss couldn’t lend me a mower. Right across from a USPS facility. Apparently the guys had a good laugh for a while watching me whack wet grass into my face over and over until one said it was starting to get sad and brought me an extra pair of safety glasses.
yep. Weedwhackin'. here's mine from 2 years ago
Always man. Can’t rely on safety squints.
fkn hell man.. i almost shared your fate the other weekend working on my mom’s backyard. i felt a blade of dry grass hit me right below my eye and i was like : “yeah nahhhh, put your fkn glasses on.”
wishing you a quick recovery! 👊🏼
Is that a thorn or thistle ? Damn
Happened to me last year. Coworker was weedwacking and he hit a loose pebble or acorn and it went straight for my left eye. I never had such a throbbing pain last so long. Approximately 2-3 weeks of headaches, light sensitivity and slight blindness. Didn’t have health insurance so I just raw dogged the pain.
get a cool eyepatch
I knew someone who, on their last day of work, dropped a glass bottle and it shattered and a piece of glass flew up and landed in their eyeball 😭
Eye injuries are so scary, glad you're okay!
I survived metastatic melanoma in my liver, lymph’s, lung. I’m in a medical journal too. 22 years ago
Ah! That looks rough. I had a similar injury, except it involved a garden hose nozzle 🙃
I just used a weed whacker for the first time a few days ago, didnt have eye protection on initially, once I felt parts of my body and face being pelted I immediately stopped and put eye protection on
Was it IN your eye? 😭 I have such a an eye phobia I’m cringing so hard at the thought.
I hate to break it to you… it was. But now you’re extra warned not to weedwhack without protection!
I’m screaming but I’m happy your eye will be fine!!
I have to ask, where in the eye did it hit? The best part of this, I’m a critical care nurse 🤣
Being a critical care nurse = Great way to desensitize yourself!!!
I refrained from posting the really NSFW photo that shows it lodged in my eye - it went into the white of my eye and lodged itself in there a few mm away from my cornea.
It’s the kind of thing you look at while remaining calm and go ‘oh man, could totally be better’
Okay the sclera is freaking me out so much less!! 😅
You gotta do the safety squint when you whack weeds, my guy. Everybody knows that
or maybe the weedwacking is so traumatic you awakened the mangekyo sharingan(hope you recover quickly)
I was literally warning my wife of this yesterday after it embedded several mini pebbles in my leg with my weed whacker the other day. She blew me off. Thanks for the evidence lol
Just gotta be faster with the ol’ safety squints.
Three weeks ago I was weed whacking wearing my normal glasses and took a shot in the corner of my eye which luckily didn't do any damage. I literally just walked in the door from doing it again but I was wearing my safety glasses this time.
Those things fucking suck. I pulled this out of my dogs eye at 4 am. Eye was slammed shut and she was noticeably uncomfortable
I was wearing eye protection and still got one of those buggers in my eye. It happened while I was wiping away the sweat, slid right in there.
Jeez that’s scary dude.
I remember coming home from school one day when I was 11. Just passing through the yard and my neighbor was cutting his grass. Something shot out from under the lawnmower and struck me below my eye.
Thankfully all it left was a bruise. But a few centimeters up and I could’ve lost an eye at a very young age.
Was this one of the commercial weed wackers without the guard at the bottom, too?
Could’ve told you this without picture reference. There’s a reason for eye safety.
I’m sorry you’re far too fit to be a Redditor.
Dam
Is that fucking spear grass?
Last year I was wrapping up some trimming and had to run in the house for some reason. Took my safety glasses off in the house and never put them back on to wrap up the job. Long story short, pebble hit me right in the eye and scratched my cornea. A piece of dirt was stuck in my eye also for a few days. It hurt just to open my eye. Eye doc was surprisingly not too worried. Gave me meds and said the cornea heals pretty fast, which it did. Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Glad you are alright man. Some lesson we learn the hard way unfortunately.
I hope you're okay and that you don't suffer permanent eye damage
Those rocks cut and hurt when wearing jeans.
I wear glasses!
Not even at home (unless you live in an asylum)
Bro said:
Foxtail can be used as a form of wheat
I've been pelted too many times in the arms and face by pebbles to not wear eye protection while whackin'.
Amaterasu!
When the safety squint fails…
I was weed whacking a high school parking lot once, bits of gravel on the ground. I hit one of those bits, and instantly my car passenger side window shattered. Little rock got picked up and flung like 100 feet and broke a window. Weed whackers are no joke
What's crazy to me is i was a landscaper for about a decade, young teen to early 20s working for my family business. I wore eye protection but not all the time and I never had anything like this, bad luck bruv
This post made my eyes water
How in the hell did you avoid rubbing the shit out of your eye and causing crazy amount of damage?
NEW FEAR UNLOCKED
i used to not wear any eye protection apart from my glasses when i used to weed whack as a teenager, holy shit i’m so glad nothing bad ever happened because that was dumb
You have one set of eyes. Remember your eye protection ALWAYS.
Drilling, grinding, hedge trimming, mowing [...]. Just put a fucking pair of glasses on.
Learned that the hard way once, grass in the eye is no joke! Stay safe out there!
AMATERASU
What is a weed whacker in British? Is it a strimmer?
Are you learning British for an upcoming trip?
Wow just saw a guy with a welding mask weed whacking yesterday, thought it was a little dramatic but after this I think he’s smart
You look cool
And don’t wear sandals either!!
Saw a dude get a leach in his eye in the Philippines and have worn eye protection ever since
🥲
Amaterasu!
SIR 😳
Foxtail and grass seed is the WORST! I have to check my dogs paws and ears for the little fuckers after every walk. They can really burrow themselves into the skin 😬
I use a stihl and in my whole life so far I never use eye protection, never had any foreign objects hit me in the eye or around it , just got done with a ditch line full of rocks n high weeds and even running it full blast in speed nothing ….maybe it’s the way your using it or holding it on a angle where it knocks back objects back toward your face
Loaded my goggles and weedwhacker into my car, hiked a mile to the top of the trail, realized I left my goggles in the car. I thought “just a minute won’t hurt, right?” Silly me.
What is it?
It’s a foxtail from dry grass - Nasty bugger imbedded itself
damn! So sorry. I'm glad you are fine.
Thanks! I was a specimen in the ER - doctors and residents kept stopping by because ‘this was a first’ and they were told ‘they had to come and see this’
Not super comforting things to hear in the hospital imo
My eye will be fine in a few days and I have the foxtail saved in a lil jar. Might epoxy it and turn it into art
Try having them pull out a medical journal and say there has only been one or two cases like this recorded. lol
Not trying to to one up you and glad you didn’t get your eye.
when i was 13 i had my first knee surgery to correct a birth defect i had, i can't remember what they called it but they said it was very rare. At my second consultation they asked if they could put me in a medical journal, of course i said yes! a few minutes later they came in with some cameras and filmed me bending and extending my knees, took a few pictures and when they were done they said welcome to hollywood lmao. to this day i'm super thankful for my team of doctors because they made me feel so special instead of like a freak lmao
I ate too much spaghetti when I was 18. I made baked spaghetti with bolognese sauce, it was enough for 4 people. I ate it all and gave myself a hiatal hernia. Which itself was not that rare but apparently overeating enough to give yourself one is, according to that doctor lol. He said “usually people throw up, it must have been some good spaghetti”. It hurt to breathe and swallow 24/7 for 5 months. :)
My mother in law used to make a three day gravy and that with spaghetti and meatballs remains to this day the dish that I can’t stop eating, it is so fucking good I’d get hurt every time, but never gave myself a hernia. You must be a really good cook, lol
You said "used to make" but also "can't stop eating" did she share the recipe with you?
I actually had a few cases where the doctors hadn’t seen anything like it before. They pulled up the medical journal and saw no entries for being bitten by a gopher and another doctor had to take a picture of the inside of my mouth after I accidentally stabbed a hole in it with my toothbrush
OMG you just triggered a childhood memory. I was playing with a wooden dowel that was sharp at one end. It was for my grandmas hair tie, it basically an oval of leather with a hole on either narrow end and the dowel would go through the holes and hair. Anyway, I was 4 and running like an idiot through the house with it in my mouth under my tongue. I tripped and it impailed me under my tongue. I still remember my grandma holding me up to the mirror to look at the dark red perfect hole under my tongue. She pulled out the dowel and no hospital. 1985, what a time.
Lol, I was sledding at my grandmas house, must have been...92ish, I was 6, went down face first on my belly on my sled following my sister on her sled, she kicked up a branch, which went directly into my mouth and skewered the back of my throat before it snapped. It wasn't super deep, they pulled it out, made me gargle salt water, and I had a sore throat for a week, no hospital. I just remember knocking on the door crying with a stick hanging out of my mouth.
Toothbrush? Explain.
I was talking to my partner while he was in the shower and I was standing in the doorway while brushing my teeth. I turned away (very quickly) to leave the bathroom and didn’t think about how the handle of the toothbrush meant I needed to be further from the doorframe. The bottom handle of the toothbrush ended up hitting the doorframe, pushing the tip of the toothbrush further into my mouth creating a hole about the size of a penny. I remember just spitting out a bunch of bl00d and putting a flashlight in to see the back of my throat! It was the day before my partner’s friend’s wedding, so I had to be tactful when drinking lol The hole closed up about 3 days later by just rinsing with salt water occasionally.
There's good news and bad news. The good news is they will name a disease after you.
I had the same with a back surgery. I was thinking I am not that messed up am I? Apparently it was interesting enough to attract a crowd.
I like the idea of turning it into a display. Always good for a story!
I had this with my "textbook" amoxicillin allergic reaction. Lol was popping my shirt for a bunch of nurse practitioners.
Haha! Putting on a show. Getting people real world experience and observation is something i am always behind.
Nurses and junk are like any other job. If you weed whack 10000 houses and find one with a little nest of anything 1 time, youre gonna tell everyone.
It's always a bad sign when doctors get excited.
At least it wasn’t on your d!ck, that would’ve made it a lot more awkward…
It’d also mean less whacking
Sorry you got turned into a side show but that made me chuckle a bit. Glad you'll be ok.
When I was a kid we called it spear grass. Cuz we’d grab stalks and use these as little spears in fights.
My poor kitty had three of these under his eyelid once. The vet saved the day!
Got one of those in my eye as a child. Had dug up a large clump of the grass from the local creek and was planting it next to the small pond in the back yard, one of the seeds fell off right into my eye when I was crouched under it.
Wasn't embedded or anything though, doctor just had me lay on my back and was able to pluck it out from under my eyelid.
Jeez if it’s not safe to whack on a deserted trail where is it safe to whack?!
No safety squints? Shame on you.. /s
I’ll admit I’m hardly any better and only use sunglasses as my eye protection.
I thought my safety squint was pretty good, but of all the things to make it past the time-tested technique it was literally natures missle, the thing is shaped like a bullet
Sperm’d it’s way into yer noggin. Thankfully you’re not patient zero of plant/human crossover.. yet?
Luckily I wasn’t ovulating yesterday or I might be half grass?
Sunglasses that can shatter are worse! Have a blessed day Jesus got yo back
My dude did you atleast use your safety squints?
I came here to offer my pair of safety squints as well.
I refrained from posting the photo of the eye itself with the foxtail in it out of decency. Available upon request via DM!
Please safety first. Just a minute hurts.
this is one of my top fears :/ nothing worse than forgetting ppe in the boonies
Engage safety squints