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# Blow on your eyes
- URL: https://www.taiwanquest.com/blow-on-your-eyes/
- Published: 2023-11-21T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-01T14:16:31.000Z
- Description: A request I didn’t expect at my annual eye exam…
- Author: Zhen-Kang

This morning, I visited my neighborhood hospital for a routine eye test. It was more thorough than my annual check-up in New Zealand, comprising tests at four different machines, plus the eye chart test, and manual examinations from a nurse and an ophthalmologist. All for NT$360 (NZ$18).

It was at the second machine that I received a strange request. As I leaned towards the chin-rest, the English-speaking nurse said “Blow on your eyes!”

I looked up at her, and said something like “Huh?”

Once again, she said “Blow on your eyes!”

“I’m sorry? I need to…?”

*“Yes! Blow on your eyes!”*

Deeply confused, I hesitantly started removing my mask.

Should I stick out my bottom lip?

Should I cup my hands to direct the airflow?

Then, no more than two seconds before I actually tried to blow on my eyes, the nurse called out “Wait!”

“*Machine* blow on your eyes!”

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