I saw it and I still can’t believe it!
I mean I was there…
It happened to me…
and I am still having a hard time believing that it actually happened.
This is a picture of the overflow hole in our bathroom sink. (click on the pictures to see them better)
This is a picture of my contact lens.
I realize that the picture is blurry but the contact lens is easily as big as the opening of the overflow hole.
This morning, I put my left contact lens on my finger and moved it toward my eye. Here is a view from the tip of my finger.
As I moved the lens toward my eye, the contact fell off of my finger. No big deal…just find it, clean it up and try again.
As the contact fell, I watched it flip over and over and…
completely disappear into the overflow hole! It was gone!
“No way…that CAN’T be true…It HAS TO BE somewhere in the sink.”
I visually checked the sink carefully…no contact lens.
“I’ve GOT TO BE missing it somewhere.”
I wiped the entire sink out, checking my hand after each wipe…no contact lens!
My eyes were not fooling me! That lens had fallen into a hole that is smaller than the lens itself! I bet you if I stuck the lens on the end of my finger and TRIED to put it in that whole, I couldn’t do it on the first try!
If that were the extent of it, that would be amazing enough. However, when you consider that the overflow hole is nearly vertical, since it is on the side of the sink, and not lying flat, as it is in the first picture, it becomes even more unbelievable! Click on the picture of the sink again to get an idea of how small the target area was!
The rotation as it flipped in the air had to be perfect!…and it WAS!
It didn’t hit the lip of the hole…
It didn’t hit the back of the hole…
It didn’t hit anything! Nothin’ but net!
Do you realize the statistical likelihood of that happening? infinitesimal! Especially when you consider that the contact is wet and likely to stick to whatever it touches (except the end of my finger).
Folks, I saw this happen and I am still dumbfounded!
