See No Evil

So today I had an eye-opening experience...and almost burned my eye. One of my weaknesses is not being able to process or perform without caffeine, weakness/addiction, whatever. My other weakness is genetic - I have bad vision, think Coke bottle glasses, bad. These two weaknesses together.... no bueno
I have this intense eye regiment, I use a product that has a high-concentration solvent and breaks down the excess protein that my crazy eyes seem to over produce. This high-concentrated solvent has to be diluted a process that takes six hours to be effective. So you cannot put this solution right into your eye. Now, this morning I wake up and stumble to put on my contacts (my daily answer to this genetic weakness) and notice it's a little dry. So in my pre-coffee haze, I pour this high-concentrated solution onto my lens. Imagine hot sauce being poured into your eye, now multiply by 10, then add a couple minutes since contacts that are in distress stick to your eye, so my heinous situation turned into a full episode of screaming and praying that I don't go blind...at 6:30 this morning. After flushing my eye out, I reason, it's fine...wear my glasses today and I'll be fine...Until I called my eye doctor, whose receptionist tells me "OMG, you should come in like now." Of course I freak out, cry hysterically in the bathroom at work and stumble to the eye doctor.
At the end of this my eye doctor said I was fine, but I should wear my glasses for a week...Sweet. So why the dramatic post you ask? I've been on an upswing of positive energy (knock on wood) and someone recently said to me "you've been having all this good luck, just wait there's always the other shoe that's going to fall twice as hard..." After thinking, sweet Optimistic Olivia, I became really nervous and rationalized any small issue as "the other shoe." And then after this eye thing, I thought maybe almost blinding myself is the other shoe (!!!) - and then I thought "self, why is everything in life a compromise of good and evil?" It's a little disturbing that my first thought after the pain subsided was "phew, almost blindness is my ticket away from the bad shoe." So in my anxiety I spent most of this evening researching where this token phrase came from to put my mind at ease and so I thought I'd share my findings:

"A man comes in late at night to a lodging house. He sits on his bed, drags one shoe off and drops it on the floor. Guiltily remembering everyone around him trying to sleep, he takes the other one off much more carefully and quietly puts in on the floor. He then finishes undressing and gets into bed. Just as he is drifting off to sleep, a shout comes from the man in the room below: “Well, drop the other one then! I can’t sleep, waiting for you to drop the other shoe!" (World Wide Words)

So, there you go. A token phrase coined by someone probably as nervous as me, thinking, worrying and waiting for that other dang shoe.