I knew my eyes weren’t as good as they once were, but when I couldn’t see the numbers on the thermostat, I was shocked.
I thought about cleaning the face of the thermostat and hoping it was smeared, but that didn’t work.
I rubbed the thermostat with a dry cloth, but it was still hazy, and I couldn’t tell what the temperature was. I called my husband and asked him to bring a new thermostat home with him when he came home from work. I didn’t want to disrupt his work for long so I thanked him and hung up. Five minutes later, he called and told me we had replaced the thermostat less than a year ago. He wanted to know what was wrong with it. I told him the face was hazy and I couldn’t read the temperature or figure out where the thermostat was set. He laughed and asked if I had put my contacts in? I said nothing, and now I was fuming. His response was a simply, well?. I told him I had my contacts in, but I couldn’t see the face of the thermostat. If he was through tormenting me, just because I had forgotten my contacts once, I was going to go back to my own work. Ten minutes later, I was looking in the bathroom mirror and realized I was looking hazy. I checked to make sure I had my contacts in. That’s when I realized I had put my contacts into the wrong eyes. Once I switched them around, I could see the thermostat perfectly. Now, I had to call my husband back.