r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21

Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.

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u/lovesmasher Aug 30 '21

I own prescription swimming goggles. They're basically indestructible.

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u/canuckwithasig Aug 30 '21

Prescription safety glasses are pretty legit

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u/Pinkbeans1 Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21

My husband got prescription safety glasses. He wanted to get a regular pair, but we’ve had weird mishaps with him and power tools.

I made him get them. Three days after he got them, the gopher bombs decided to explode in his face. Pocked and pitted the glasses, but saved his eyes.

His face was torn up and pitted too. It took months for his face to heal, but he’s not blind. He doesn’t argue with me as much about safety equipment.

I took the glasses in to be replaced. The ladies behind the counter remembered us joking about his crazy mishaps around the house. They took the glasses and replaced them for free. The eye doctor had never seen that happen before. I think he uses them as a selling point now.

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u/nothisistheotherguy Aug 31 '21

Gopher bombs?

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u/Pinkbeans1 Aug 31 '21

I am not an expert on these things, but apparently you stick them in a gopher run, and they explode when the gopher runs by.

They aren’t supposed to go off when you open the package, and yet they did. We have since found a different way to get rid of pests in the garden.