"(PeteCresswell)" writes:

Per Radey Shouman:
Excellent advice -- that I won't follow, having got by so far without
ever intentionally sticking in my eye.

There is a downside that I neglected to mention: every so often, I can't
get a contact out of my eye. Sometimes because I took a wave in the
face and it rolled up, other times because it tore upon attempted
removal and the pieces became impossible to get at, and other times just
because it does not want to come out.

Not such a problem if you can get to somebody for assistance.

Definitely a problem (and, for me, a shoe-stopper) if you are alone out
in the middle of nowhere..... but I'm never out in the middle of
nowhere.

You have plainly missed your true calling as a salesman of contact
lenses. My attitudes were formed back in the dark days of expensive,
hard contact lenses. One of my first exposures to the idea was in a
scuba class, in a pool. A student lost a contact while practicing to
clear her mask. At that time I think a set of lenses cost more or less
what a pair of glasses did, so the whole class stationed themselves
around the drain until one sharp-eyed person snagged the contact lens on
it's way out.

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