Going to the eye doctor can be a hassle and a pain. It's not just the routine issues and inconveniences that come along when making a doctor appointment, but sometimes the various devices being used to check your eyes' health feel invasive and uncomfortable. But at least at the end of the appointment, most of us don't look like we're turning into The Incredible Hulk. That wasn't the case for one Irish woman.Photographer Margerita B. Wargola was just going in for a routine eye exam at the hospital but ended up leaving with her eyes a shocking, bright neon green. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Margerita B. Wargola (@margoinireland)At the doctor's office, the nurse practitioner was prepping Wargola for a test with a machine that Wargola had experienced before. Before the test started, Wargola presumed the nurse had dropped some saline into her eyes, as they were feeling dry. After she blinked, everything went yellow.Wargola and the nurse initially panicked. Neither knew what was going on as Wargola suddenly had yellow vision and radioactive-looking green eyes. After the initial shock, both realized the issue: the nurse forgot to ask Wargola to remove her contact lenses before putting contrast drops in her eyes for the exam. Wargola and the nurse quickly removed the lenses from her eyes and washed them thoroughly with saline. Fortunately, Wargola's eyes were unharmed. Unfortunately, her contacts were permanently stained and she didn't bring a spare pair. - YouTube youtube.com Since she has poor vision, Wargola was forced to drive herself home after the eye exam wearing the neon-green contact lenses that make her look like a member of the Green Lantern Corps. She couldn't help but laugh at her predicament and recorded a video explaining it all on social media. Since then, her video has sparked a couple Reddit threads and collected a bunch of comments on Instagram:“But the REAL question is: do you now have X-Ray vision?”“You can just say you're a superhero.”“I would make a few stops on the way home just to freak some people out!”“I would have lived it up! Grab a coffee, do grocery shopping, walk around a shopping center.”“This one would pair well with that girl who ate something with turmeric with her invisalign on and walked around Paris smiling at people with seemingly BRIGHT YELLOW TEETH.”“I would save those for fancy special occasions! WOW!”“Every time I'd stop I'd turn slowly and stare at the person in the car next to me.”“Keep them. Tell people what to do. They’ll do your bidding.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Margerita B. Wargola (@margoinireland)In a follow-up Instagram video, Wargola showed her followers that she was safe at home with normal eyes, showing that the damaged contact lenses were so stained that they turned the saline solution in her contacts case into a bright Gatorade yellow. She wasn't mad at the nurse and, in fact, plans on keeping the lenses to wear on St. Patrick's Day or some other special occasion.While no harm was done and a good laugh was had, it's still best for doctors, nurses, and patients alike to double-check and ask or tell if contact lenses are being worn before each eye test. If not, there might be more than ultra-green eyes to worry about.

One of the most frequently debated topics in professional etiquette is which foods are appropriate to eat in the office. People often take offense when others cook smelly foods, such as fish or broccoli, in a shared microwave. It can also be rude to bring a bag of snacks into a meeting as a lot of folks don't want to hear chewing while they're trying to think.When it comes to remote workers, people are even less sure about proper eating etiquette. Is it okay to eat a large meal during an all-hands meeting? One remote worker recently claimed they pushed those boundaries to the limit when their boss allegedly did something most employees would find rude: He scheduled meetings during lunchtime and showed zero interest in apologizing for it. An office kitchen.via Canva/Photos"I used to take my lunch break at the same time every day - 12 to 1. I don't eat breakfast (just coffee and lots of water), so my lunch is essential, and I can't just skip it," a Redditor wrote. "My calendar was blocked, but my boss (newly promoted, power-tripping) started scheduling meetings right in the middle of it."At first, it wasn't a problem, but it became a habit. "The first couple of times, I let it slide," the employee continued. "Figured maybe it was urgent. But then it became a pattern. I pushed back and reminded him that it was during my break, and he said, 'Well, we all have to make sacrifices sometimes.'" An angry man eating spaghetti.via Canva/PhotosSometimes? That would make sense if the boss only occasionally scheduled lunchtime meetings, but this was becoming a regular thing. So, the employee decided they wouldn't skip lunch and would make the meeting as uncomfortable as possible."Next meeting, I showed up with a full plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Had my camera on and mic unmuted, slurping and chewing, occasionally gave thumbs up while mid-bite," they wrote. "A few days later, it repeated, so I brought sticky wings. Last week on Thursday, it happened again, glad I still had my pizza.""We all have to make sacrifices sometimes"After the boss started noticing a trend, he spoke up: "Do you have to eat during the meeting?" The employee had the perfect response: "I smiled and said, 'We all have to make sacrifices sometimes.'" During the following week, the boss didn't schedule any lunch meetings.The post went viral. After receiving countless awards from readers, the poster joked about new and inventive ways they could get back at their boss, including dressing up as a Benihana chef and performing an onion volcano, heating cheese mid-meeting with a fondue pot, and carving a massive tomahawk steak on camera.Paid $100 for this guy to make an onion volcano just so I can feel something pic.twitter.com/kINUfdQ9C9— John Willow (@JohnathonWillow) July 23, 2025 The Redditor also claimed they purposely behaved obnoxiously during the meeting to further drive home their point. But where do people draw the line when it comes to eating during a remote meeting?Kate Noel, head of People Ops at Morning Brew, said it's important to read the room:"All Zoom meetings are not created equal," Noel wrote. "If it's with your closest teammates, it's probably nbd. But if you feel nervous about eating your sushi on camera, then you might want to wait until after the awkward goodbye waves at the end of your meeting. Not for nothing, you could probably get away with keeping your video off during a larger group meeting to eat food. But at your own risk, so choose your own adventure."

Being a mom can be a lonely role. A 2024 study published by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that 66% of parents reported feeling isolated, and a whopping 79% reported a desire to connect with others outside of work and home.One mom on Reddit shared exactly how she went from feeling "so incredibly lonely" to having a "huge mom village" in just one year.She explained that it started at the end of 2024, when she found herself feeling really miserable and thinking about the new year ahead. - YouTube www.youtube.com "I don't speak to my family, my in-laws are out of state and honestly it was getting to the point where my husband was my only consistent friend," she wrote. "It can be really soul crushing to have no network of adults to share life with. I needed more connection."How she grew her "mom village"She decided to try the "most bottom barrel thing I could think of"—she planned a monthly mom dinner for fellow moms. Some she knew, some she didn't. "I invited every mom I knew, but that wasn't going to cut it so I started inviting moms I didn't know at all," she shared. "Make eye contact with me in the pick up area? Hey there, I have a monthly mom dinner I host if you want to come. Our kids are in the same class and I saw you for five minutes once from across the hall? Please take this invitation to my monthly mom dinner. We're FB friends who haven't seen each other in 20 years, but I saw your post about needing to get out? Mom dinner."In the comments, she explained that the dinners started out at restaurants, but that it cut "many moms due to finances and childcare," so she began to switch it up by adding in potlucks.She put herself out there by extending invites, something she said was "a little uncomfortable at first." However, the positive response quelled any of her insecurities."The overwhelming reaction was excitement and gratitude, so after the first few it became really easy," she wrote. "Women have been so receptive to hanging out with other women. I have had moms decline or not show up, but I have yet to feel rejected by anyone." She added that each fellow mom she encountered could relate to the need for a "Mom dinner.""Literally every single mom I've spoken to gets it," she added. "We all seem to be in the same sinking boat." @christines.life_ fully convinced that moms with a village have a completely different version of motherhood than those who don’t #motherhood #momlife #toddlermom #toddlermomlife #momtok The unexpected outcomesMomentum started to increase, and by six months in, she noticed she had added many more mom friends into her life."I went from having two mom friends that I knew would probably watch my kids in an emergency, to a real village with a bit more than 20 of those mom friends," she shared. "This was unimaginable to me when I started the dinner in 2025."Although she doubted her experiment would work, it did, and there was an unexpected benefit: "My kids are even having sleepovers now, that's how much trust and community we've built."Finally, she wants to encourage other moms to step outside their comfort zones."All it really took was the courage to say I'm lonely out loud to other people and a FB event invite," she explained. "It's been such a positive change in my life, so I just wanted to share my experience."Women enjoy dessert together. Photo credit: CanvaMoms reactHer idea to connect moms and build a strong fellowship of mom friends resonated with lonely mothers:"This is the way to do it. I did something similar, and it is SO AWKWARD to put yourself out there for a few months/a while and hope to get something back (especially as an introvert) but now we have annual egg hunts, July 4th parties, outdoor movie nights, summer parties, etc. where we just invite dozens of people and have this awesome little village community.""My social anxiety could never but it wishes it could.

For many, if not most of us, when someone uses the term “Netflix and chill,” we know it to be a euphemism for, well, not much TV watching. And yet, not everyone knows that this phrase has sexual connotations, apparently. At least one 34-year-old female college professor recently admitted to not knowing. Too bad she had been using the phrase as one of her go-to “icebreakers” in class.A teacher learns she’s been using “Netflix and chill” wrongAs she shared on Reddit, she would often list “Netflix and chill” as one of her favorite hobbies. Not only that, but whenever students mentioned how stressed they were, she would reiterate: “While it's important to study, it's also important to take time to relax and recharge, so I hope they are able to do something for themselves soon, like ‘Netflix and chill.’” It wasn’t until she visited her husband for lunch at his work and struck up a conversation with two of his co-workers that she discovered her hefty misunderstanding.“I'm currently on maternity leave and mentioned to his co-workers that I can't wait for my infant to be older so I can ‘Netflix and chill’ again instead of having to feed and change diapers,” she wrote. When one of the coworkers had a “shocked look on his face,” the OP was “confused.” She couldn’t believe it when this person explained that it’s a “euphemism for hooking up.” And yet, when the other coworker, a 50-year-old female, said, "Oh he's right, even I know what that means!" there was really no denying it. Photo credit: CanvaWell, understandably, this woman was “mortified” at having learned the truth and was “now terrified I'm going to be reported for sexual harassment because I guess I've been inadvertently telling my students I love to hook up and have been encouraging them to hook up, too??”In her defense, it's true that “Netflix and chill” used to mean relaxing while streaming, but that was about 17 years ago. The context we are all familiar with has been around since 2015. She also noted that she and her husband married young and therefore never spent much time on dating apps, which could help explain why she remained unaware. Plus, she lived at home and worked two jobs during her college years, which meant "Netflix and chill” was literally “Netflixing and chilling,” she quipped. All in all, she chalked this up to being an “oblivious Millennial.” And by that, she meant a “Millennial who is clearly oblivious” to something “invented by Millennials and has been around for at least 10-15 years.” Reddit's reactionsDown in the comments, people tried to ease her worries about the whole accidental harassment thing. "They either thought you were adorably clueless, or just a very cool teacher. Don't sweat it." “Either people figured she didn’t know and thought it was funny or just assumed they’re very open and sex positive. NBD either way.”“Rate my professor: 10/10. She told me I can come over and netflix and chill anytime

Less than a year after sharing his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis, Eric Dane passed away at age 53. ALS is a brutal disease with no cure and often a short life expectancy. Those with ALS sometimes lose their ability to speak, a side effect Eric clearly understood. Eric shared two teenage daughters with Rebecca Gayheart, Billie and Georgia. Prior to his death, the doting dad recorded a beautiful message for his girls for the Netflix series Famous Last Words. “Billie and Georgia, these words are for you,” Eric said. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix) Eric Dane Let His Girls Know Just How Much He Loved Him If you haven’t already, be sure to grab a tissue. Eric Dane’s message to his daughters included lessons he hoped they’d remember after his death. “I hope you won’t just listen to me, I hope you’ll hear me,” Eric said. “First, live now, right now in the present. It’s hard, but I learned to do that.” Eric wanted her girls to know that life is short, and it doesn’t do any good to constantly think about what they could have done differently. Instead, he wants them to enjoy every moment they have. “I replayed decisions, second-guessed myself. ‘I should have done this. I never should’ve done that.’ No more.” The father felt humbled by his ALS diagnosis and how quickly everything changed. “I can’t even do the little things I used to anymore. I can’t drive around town, go to the gym, get coffee, and hang out,” he said. “I’ve learned to embrace alternatives. My friends come to me.” To that end, he advised his daughters to choose good friends and to be a good friend to others. “Love your friends with everything you have. Hang on to them. They will entertain you, guide you, support you, and some will save you,” he added. In one final beautiful sentence, Eric Dane let his daughters know that the end of his life is just a part of his story. “This disease is slowly taking my body, but it will never take my spirit,” Eric said. This story’s featured image is by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO