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An expensive little accident


Getting ready for work last Friday I decided to clean my glasses in preparation for driving and...snap, the frame broke.  3 minutes and a pot of superglue later, temporarily mended glasses.


I just got back from the opticians.  I have ordered new glasses at a cost of £215!  Never thought cleaning my glasses could cost quite so much.


What's your most expensive little accident?



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That's amazing.  I've never had to pay that much for glasses.  Mine cost about £80 a time.


You must have something really wrong with your eyes.  Do you have inverted eyeballs or something?



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I wish.  A swift poke in the eye would sort that out.


Either that or popping them in a bowl of hot water like getting the dents out of ping pong balls. 



-- Edited by Susan at 15:02, 2005-02-07

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I feel your pain


Last May when I came down to FL for the job interview I thought I had left my glasses on the plane. Bought another pair for $250. Shortly afterwards, I found the first pair. Turns out they weren't so much on the plane, but in the pocket of my passenger side car door.


Turns out it was a good idea to get new glasses anyway because my prescription had changed slightly.


Three months later, Karma (who was still a puppy at the time) decided to eat my new glasses along with a relatively expensive purse. So, back to the old ones while I get the new ones fixed.... another $100 for the glasses, and unmeasurable damage to my wardrobe since that was my favorite purse.


Fast forward to December, Buddha also seemed to take a liking to my new glasses - but this time just the lense. He popped out and chewed up the lense for my left eye, leaving me with my old glasses once again and a firm promise to myself that next month, I'm getting contacts! 



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  There's a moral in the story somewhere!

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quote:

Originally posted by: Susan

"What's your most expensive little accident? "


Hit a deer once while driving ~75 miles an hour, that one cost me over a grand and a lot of wasted time!



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Never seen a dog eat glasses, you didn't marinate them did you?


My uncle's dog decided to chew the **** out of a pair of cowboy boots I had once. Bum.



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You'd think I did, but these dogs will eat anything...


my couch...
towels...
blankets...
clothes (socks are a favorite)...
shoes...
aforementioned purse and glasses....
paper...


Pretty much anything they can get their paws on. Karma's stopped. Buddha is still trying to slim down my shoe wardrobe.



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Try giving them:


1) Peanut Butter


2) Dill Pickles




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Oh they love peanut butter... they go through about 2 40oz jars a week

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They do? Just straight-up peanut butter?

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Mmmm.  Peanut butter.


Crunchy.


Mmmmmmm....



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Yep. I stuff their Kong toys with it and it keeps them occupied for hours.

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Do they manically lick their lips for hours?



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lol no... the peanut butter usually comes off their faces in a few minutes

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With a little help from you, apparently.  I've seen the picture on the other thread.  You're clearly licking peanut butter of the dog's face.  Dirty, dirty!

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that was my old dog... she was allergic to peanut butter...


and i had to have her put to sleep last year



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Hang on while I figure out how to remove my foot from my mouth...

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Er, looks like it's completely jammed in there dude.


You might need some therapy for that, DD.



-- Edited by NateO at 22:42, 2005-02-07

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My little cocker chewed up some lamanate flooring she managed to peel up, boy was she sick the next day. I was up until 3 am that Thursday morning tearing the rest of the flooring up.

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Yikes, nothing quite like a serving of lamanate, eh?

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perhaps a serving of drywall for desert? mine did that once too

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How did it taste?

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I didn't ask, but she appeared to like it.

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Argh, sounds a little bland, mate.

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