My!...What big eyes you have!

I hadn't been to the eye doctor in three years, and so I had called to make an appointment a couple of months ago. The doctor is an excellent eye doctor, but I have spent many a 'half-day' in his office waiting....then in a room waiting...then drops in my eyes and more waiting...that I am smarter now. I asked for a day when I was either his first appointment of the morning or the first appointment after lunch.

After meeting with a good friend for lunch at a restaurant [wahoo!], I continued on for the tests: glaucoma, cateract, general eye conditions. Ya know...eyeball to eyeball close with the doc..is pretty darned close!!!It was a definite invasion of my 'personal space'. Oh well, everything went well and I passed all tests with flying colors!
"See you in 3 years."
They gave me sunglasses to wear out, and as I sat in the driver's seat and looked at my dialated eyes, it reminded me of my last visit several years ago. I had taken a half -day off at school, because I figured I could still teach with no problem after the appointment. I wore sunglasses driving to school, and removed them to get things rolling. And then, one by one, I heard...
"Wow! What happened to you?"
"What happened to your eyes?"
And even as I started the afternoon and we switched classes, I still watched their eyes get as big as...??my eyes ??
"Do you have any idea what your eyes look like?"
Okay, okay, let me look. They can't be that scary, can they?

Yes, indeedy! Ooph!! What big eyes I had!! It made me look very, very weird. And that was the general reaction from the adults, too!
Had I known I would be scaring the kiddies, I would have taken the whole day!
Today, I only scared the dog when she jumped onto my lap and came into the close proxitity of 'eyeball to eyeball' contact. If dogs could talk, I think she was swearing!!
'What the ****happened to you?"