Do you laugh in your opticians face?

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When they're right up close examing your eyes. Never used to do this as a child but now I'm in my mid-20s I can't seem to suppress the laughter! Really puts me off getting a very much needed eye examination. AIBU to ask if I'm in the minority?

Not at the opticians, but when I had a lump in my breast and was referred to the consultant to get it checked I couldn't stop giggling as he was doing the manual examination. I probably looked like a right loon.

All was fine though!

nope, had a eye test on Monday and all i did was try to hold my breath and not breath in his air... he eats raw onions for breakfast judging by the smell... nope no laughing here

@aLilNonnyMouse
i laughed during mine, but because i said something like "its a wonder you can find anything in there they feel bloody lumpy all over to me" and he said "oh no you have lovely breasts" then he froze and sort of flustered and went red and stuttered out that he didnt mean that like it sounded, he was so embarrassed ( and he is such a proper gentleman type) i just cracked up laughing said i understood how he meant it and said it was ok...
disclaimer:- he really did mean it in an innocent doctor type way, no sleeze at all

I giggle, but I also giggle when the osteo cracks my back. DH was with me as needed him to hold breastfed baby I couldn't leave behind, he asked at his own appointment later if that was normal and apparently I was the first

'Optician's Loom' sounds like a medical disorder...

@Florries if you're going for a contact lens trial I wouldn't wear mascara.

I wear contacts and whilst it is now second nature for me to put them in and take them out, I almost always do my eye make up after putting my lenses in so that it doesn't get smudged/on my lenses.

I still remember how hard it was at first and that it required a lot of touching of my eyelid etc while trying to find the best way to insert the lenses. If you wear mascara then you risk getting it on your fingers/lenses and it irritating your eye. Also it is very common for your eyes to get a bit watery the first few times you try lenses, as your eyes arent used to having something in them, so you run the risk of smudged mascara.

If you've never worn contacts before I would suggest not wearing any eye makeup for the first trial session at least so that you can focus on the lenses rather than worrying about your makeup.

Laugh? - No

Overwhelming urge to kiss them? - Yes.

Not laughing, no, but the last time I went I started really thinking about what he'd do if I suddenly did something totally inappropriate. Like going "BOO!" Just as he got close.

Yes! I've had the same optician for 20+ years and he has an enormous bushy beard. I used to giggle because it tickles, now I giggle because it's become a habit!

We moved away from my optician a few years ago, and I know it's silly to go back there when I could just go to one here, but it would feel weird. I'll have to ask if my new one can have a big bushy beard as well

(Thank you for reminding me that I really need to go. I haven't been since DD was born and she's nearly 5...!)

I'n laughing my head off just reading these comments!

Thank you melj

I try not to laugh when they do the ‘look left, look right, look up, LOOK DOWN’ because of an episode of One Foot in The Grave when Margaret visits the optician and gets a shock on the ‘look down’ bit

No but I once laughed at my friends recount of her eye exam, where the very tip of the opticians cock was resting on her knee

No. I hate being touched by people, or having them up close to me, unless I know them really, really well, so I am tense and rigid during eye tests (and I have to endure them annually due to family history of glaucoma )

This thread has made me laugh 😂

It is awkward, ive never had the laughing response but my eyes are weird and ive been under the care of the local eye hospital which is also a teaching hospital since i was 4.

32 years of at least twice a year visits where ever opthamology student is trotted over to take a look has made it really normal.and just a bit dull.

With an eye condition, I have yearly tests and also have a consultant neurologist and an ophthalmologist who deals with my recurrent optic neuropathy (CRION Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy).

When I am admitted with CRION for iv steroids, it is usually the regional neurology service based near the university and like @Lwmommy also seen to seen literally every student. I don't mind being a learning experience,

I have several other rare conditions and have been seen by many in their specialities and am particularly happy to talk to the students and ask them questions and answer any they have for me. I am seen as a clued up patient (lol) and so the Drs seem to trust that I will give the students a good run over with questions for them and also allow them to ask me whatever. The consultant or senior often sits in the corner just being there and I've hosted groups in the room.

YE, I get really nervous and laugh in their faces especially when they are up close to my face. I can’t help it and get so embarrassed

No, I don't laugh in his face but tend to hold my breath as I don't want to breathe all over him.

A consultant was spending a lot of time looking in one eye at one particular admission and I said to him readjust where your hand is as its about to slip off my head as my head is sweaty, he thought I said his hand was sweaty - he was a real gentleman but mock offended but I was like give me something to wipe the sweat and go again

Mind you, put me at a funeral, the closer the person the worse my giggles are. I spent the majority of my mothers funeral biting my mouth to stop me giggling

I thought this was just me! As a child I also had to desperately not to laugh when he peered the torch in my eyes. My sister was the same.

However, I recently went for an eye test for the first time in probably fifteen years and it was absolutely horrible. Forcing me to keep my eyes open while the machine puffed air into it. They had to do it three times but I had to have it done over twenty times because I kept shutting my eyes (yes, because air is being blown into them ). Then they took a photo of the back of my eyeballs with a blinding light, again, had to have it done over twenty times because I kept shutting my eyes. And that was just the pre-test. Had the worst headache I have ever experienced afterwards.

I thought I was the only person that did this. So glad that I'm not. I can't help it, it's when they start hovering in front of your face.

No. Never.

YES !! Totally stresses me out and I thought I was the only one. I seriously sit there thinking about bad stuff trying to not smile