One morning during the trip, Andrea and I were getting ready at her house, while Amber was dropping her son off at her brother's house so that we could spend the day at Andrea's salon saving Amber from a mommy hair-do. So as we are getting ready, Andrea starts complaining to me how she just can't seem to visually focus on anything that morning, that her eyes were all blurry, and that it felt like she woke up with sand in her eyes. At this point she had not put her contacts in and was wearing her glasses, so I asked her if her glasses were new and if she had a new prescription in them. She said that they were in fact fairly new, so I suggested that maybe her prescription was off a bit, which would explain the blurriness and inability to focus. I then suggested that maybe she should put in her contacts and see if that helped things. So, she stuck her contacts in her eyes, but that did not seem to help things at all. She said that her eyes were still really hazy and felt like sandpaper, and we both agreed that this could possibly be explained by the fact that she had just had a baby and this may be a postpartum effect. She decided to call her eye doctor just for verification that this may be the problem.
Meanwhile, I started becoming sort of concerned about the fact that Andrea was planning on spending the afternoon cutting Amber's hair. I mean, Andrea already told me that I would probably have to drive because her vision was so fuzzy, so I got to thinking, is it really such a good idea that we allow her to come near Amber's head with a pair of scissors and a razor? While these thoughts are twirling through my brain, Andrea was able to get in touch with her eye doctor, who calmly explains to her that it is in fact quite common to experience dry eyes and blurriness after having a baby, and just to try some eye drops and give it some time. During this conversation, Andrea decides that she just can't stand to have her contacts in her eyes for one more second, so while on the phone she sticks her fingers in her left eye and pulls out her contact. She got this really weird expression on her face, and then she summons me over and points to her hand. There, lying in the palm of her hand, are two contacts. I'm a bit confused at first, until she reaches in her other eye to pull out its contents, and once again two contacts fall out. We both start laughing quietly, but we have to keep our laughter contained because she is STILL on the phone with her eye doctor, and she is certainly not going to admit to him that she had two sets of contacts in her eyes. So we stifle our laughter long enough for her to get off the phone, and then we lost it. I'm talking rolling on the floor, tears streaming down our face, gasping for air kind of laughter.
As it turns out, Andrea had forgotten the night before to take her contacts out before she went to bed . . . and the next morning she had forgotten that they were in and tried to wear her glasses on top of them . . . and she still continued to forget that they were in and stuck another pair of contacts on top of them. I still have a hard time understanding this because I am almost completely blind without my corrective lenses, so I could certainly never forget or be unaware that I am wearing my contacts. But I guess that Andrea is not quite as blind as I am, so maybe it's feasible one could forget . . . well, at least it's feasible that Andrea could forget. :) I'm just thankful that Andrea figured this all out before she went after Amber's hair. Otherwise, it might have ended up like this:
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