Poked in the eye

So yesterday I was sewing on my machine, and I was pressing on despite unhappy noises it was making. On a particularly tricky part with a lot of fabric, I heard a snap and felt a sharp object bounce forcefully off my left eye. The needle had broken in two parts and the middle part and flown directly into my eye. I thought the pointy part had pierced it, and when I saw that my eye was bleeding slightly, I decided I should call a nurse. Well, of course she told me I should go to the ER, and I inadvertently wailed "NO" into the phone. She insisted that it was very important and so I proceeded to embark upon a colossal waste of an evening. It took me two and a half hours to have a doctor tell me I had a small scratch on my cornea and to give me an overdue tetanus shot. I watched two episodes of Friends and one and a half episodes of Family Guy.

I guess the moral is: wear goggles when you sew, and don't go to the ER unless you think you're going to die and you're willing to expire in the lobby while the check-in nurse eats chips and watches.