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Superglue

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These news stories remind me of the time when I accidentally superglued my eyes shut. This is true. I pierced an old tube with a paper clip…

It squirted up into my eyes, immediately sealing them shut as I blinked. My hands flew to my eyes and started rubbing.

Of course my hands then stuck to my face. I was looking after the kids on my own and imagined I would have to stagger into the street…

…asking someone to help me. Of course I remembered it was developed to stick skin together so I thought I was in trouble. My then 5yo boy…

very calmly said "Wash your eyes under the cold tap". Actually it all came unstuck fairly quickly. There was a moment though of horror…

…and hilarity at the total absurdity. And now the main points of the news again.