Title: Vote For Me If You Want To Get In To Heaven Author: Kevin Prior I was eight years old when I found out I needed glasses. The first clue came when I was playing little league baseball...that season I had one hit and got hit by the ball nine times. Yes, that's right...I was so blind I couldn't see a baseball hurtling right at me nine different times. When I caught a fly ball in the outfield, the entire team cheered like we had just won the World Series. What I thought was just me sucking at baseball, turned out to be just me being blind as a bat. At the eye doctor I was rewarded with the thick, plastic brown rimmed glasses made popular in the eighties. And so began my life as a dork. At fourteen I transitioned to gas permeable contacts. I felt cool without the glasses, but I constantly had dry eyes, and my contacts would always flip up and get stuck at the top of my eyeball. Working in the freezer at Hy-Vee always dried my eyes and made them bloodshot...I couldn't go a day without a customer asking me if I was high. Plus I lost my contacts all the time playing sports, and spent many hours on the ground trying to find that one contact that just blended into the bathroom tile. I also fell asleep with them in...there's nothing like peeling a contact off your eyeball to wake you up in the morning. Now I'm 32, and back to glasses. Having contacts was nice, but the headaches just became too much. I go through glasses constantly...whether I'm stepping on my glasses in the morning or tripping and then reaching for my glasses in slow-motion (I can never catch them in time)...I'm constantly breaking my glasses. I'd love to have Lasik, but the cost has always been an issue. I'm sure there are plenty of people on here that have a better story than me, but if I'm awarded the free Lasik, I can promise you one thing...world peace.