# More odd behavior at work **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608 "2012-11-19T07:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/1 "2012-11-19T07:33:22Z")
After an inspection of a car I was sitting in my car making a couple of phone calls. I noticed a utility truck for the local water company was making its way house by house in my direction. When I looked up from my paperwork I saw the employee walking in a yard to the water main. His left eye had a bandage over it. Oh, poor guy I thought. He did his business and turned around. Then I noticed he had a bandage over his right eye also! He jumped in his truck and drove part me and YES, both eyes had patches over them. My camera did not power up fast enough so no pic but it was a sight. Have you seen any oddities at work? ---
**Author:** ![RemcoW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/remcow/32/2471_2.png) [@RemcoW](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RemcoW)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/2 "2012-11-19T07:52:55Z")
I drove around in my truck the other day and this guy kept looking at me, like he’s never seen someone with eye patches before. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/3 "2012-11-19T12:52:21Z")
I don’t go to work anymore but the way the garbage truck driver has been leaving my cans, I’d swear he’s got eye patches. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/4 "2012-11-19T22:19:37Z")
See your opthamologist. It’s impossible to drive with patches over both eyes You yourself may have a “floater”, which is a piece of dead tissue (or whatever) that floats around inside the eyeball and can cause unusual visions. “Floaters” are not uncmmon, but should be looked at. ---
**Author:** ![RemcoW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/remcow/32/2471_2.png) [@RemcoW](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RemcoW)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/5 "2012-11-20T01:16:42Z")
If I was able to track my floaters, my eyeballs would be in opposite sides. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/6 "2012-11-20T01:35:46Z")
Thanks alot guys. It’s like telling someone to not think about their blinking. Now all I can see are the floaters… ;-D ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/7 "2012-11-20T01:47:35Z")
I’m enjoying the banter, and like a good laugh, but the suggestion was a serious one. I’ve had a total of 5 surgeries on my eyes this past year, four for glaucoma and one for something wrong with my iris (now fixed). And I’m scheduled December 10th for the first of two cataractt surgeries. One’s vision is not something to be dismissed lightly. Yup, I’ll have a patch for awhile. First on one eye, then the other. And to think I missed Halloween. I could have been a pirate. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/8 "2012-11-20T02:12:49Z")
> Thanks alot guys. It's like telling someone to not think about their blinking. Now all I can see are the floaters... Welcome to my world. They’ve gotten more visible the last couple of years, to where they’ve become an annoyance. Eye doc says not to do anything yet though, unless they go beyond annoying and into the territory of vision-impairing. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/9 "2012-11-20T06:53:24Z")
smb is right - you should have an othalmologist examine your eyes if you see floaters. I’ve seen floaters for 90% of my life. They can mean that you are a candidate for a detached retina. My sister had one, and she was miserable. But there is no guarantee that there are problems. My eyes are just fine, except for being extremely nearsighted. Still, I’m a very lucky guy. ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/10 "2012-11-20T08:01:59Z")
@RemcoW I drove around in my truck the other day and this guy kept looking at me, like he’s never seen someone with eye patches before. OMG! I was watching something very serious and sad on PBS, Ken Burns doc on the dust bowl and when I read this I laughed out loud. My fam looked at me like I had three heads. Too funny. ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/11 "2012-11-20T08:04:06Z")
@the same mountainbike How come these floaters stayed right on this dudes eyes? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/12 "2012-11-20T21:44:28Z")
Meaneycatz, I wasn’t suggesting that the floaters might be in HIS eyes…I was suggesting that the floaters might be in YOUR eyes. ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/13 "2012-11-21T10:52:20Z")
@the same mountainbike Yes, I know that, thats why I stated “why were the “floaters” in his eyes”, meaning they stayed fixed in one position under his glasses. Think about it, if they were in mine they would have floated all over the landscape since they are called…floaters. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/more-odd-behavior-at-work/75608/14 "2012-11-21T21:46:06Z")
Not necessarily. The suggestion was well intentioned, but it’s impossible for me to know exactly what you saw. This one is a tough call.