This happened about five minutes ago and I think it must surely be my first ever original experience. I have no clue who else might have experienced this before.

I (22F) and my partner (21F) have a gross hobby: popping each other’s pimples. Most nights, we pop a gummy, pull put a flashlight and our pimple-popping tools, and take turns going to town.

Today, however, we decided to do something a little more special, so we pulled put our volcano and smoked a little. My partner said that she had an ingrown hair on her labia lip, so I went to dig it out, which I have also done before.

It, however, was not an ingrown. It was a massive, bulging, pimple. I cannot emphasize how much this zit was a ripe fruit in peak picking-season. I immediately begged her to let me pop it, which she agreed to, hoping it would relieve the soreness.

I pulled out our pimple-popping tools and gave it a little poke with one of the needle-tipped ones. I gave it a squeeze, and I swear to God, my life flashed before my eyes.

I could not see out of my right eye.

The pus from the pimple shot out of my partner’s labia and catapulted INTO MY EYEBALL.

I blinked in horror, vision still blurry. I began to panic, which made my partner also panic, and I began yelling about how it got IN MY EYE and I was not joking (it definitely is the kind of prank I usually play). According to her, my face had splatters of pus and pimple discharge on it. My eye kind of burned a little, but after I rinsed it out, all was well and my vision was once again 20/20. Luckily, we both have clean STI tests so at least I do not have to worry about chlamydia of the eyeball.

I told her we should take this to the grave, but she said we should disgust Reddit instead, so here we are.

TL;DR: popped a zit on my girlfriend’s labia lip and the pus shot into my eyeball.

EDIT:

Trip to urgent care confirmed this is indeed just a pimple! Not a cyst and not HSV1. Was told to keep an eye out… on my eye, but probably in the clear. Glad to have bonded over the fellow pimple-poppers and I hope you all learned from our grave mistake and go get some safety goggles. I also would like to add some clarifications:

1. Most nights we check for pimples, but it ends up lasting for 30 seconds because there isn’t anything new. Yes I know popping pimples can make them worse, but it’s satisfying so I don’t really care

2. My face was a good 2-3 feet away, so I did not at all expect it to shoot that far out

3. Fuck AI!