Mark wrote:

I submit this story to illustrate how one can follow safety
procedures and still get bit.

Safety glasses still let stuff get in your eyes, in my experience. I caught
a rock in the eye while weed eating. Went right up at just the right angle
to slip under the glasses and wing me in the eye. Scratched my cornea.

There was nothing inappropriate about the glasses I was wearing, and the
opthamologist didn't bless me out for poor safety practices. It's just
that they don't really work that well. Goggles are much better at keeping
stuff out, but they fog so bad you might as well just put on blinders, and
stuff can still make it through the little holes.

Along with my lathe, I got one of those $11 full face shield thingies. I
LOVE it. Why have I been wearing safey glasses all these years? Safety
glasses SUCK.

Sure, stuff could still get under this too, but it's a lot less likely.

I've got two so far. One for me, one for one of the kids. I want to pick
up two more, so I can have one dedicated for weed eating, and one for the
other rug rat. They're awesome, and quite reasonably priced IMHO.

I was convinced of this the first time a piece came apart and bounced
harmlessly off of the piece of clear plastic in front of my mouth full of
expensive-to-replace teeth.

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