For some reason, I can’t stand anything that has to do with eye injuries. I have no idea why. During movies, the only thing that will usually make me look away is an eye gouge, or an eye stab, or an eye pluck. Things like that disgust me so much that I can’t even write about them.

So Wheaties has this fish with an infection on its left eye. The infection looks like a fungus, but it isn’t a normal blotchy mold, it’s a white growth that comes out in sharp spikes. At one point the spikes were longer than the width of its head, and it was floating sideways because it probably couldn’t see out of that eye. It’s not so much the fact that the fish has an eye infection (although that’s bad enough already), but the fact that the infection seems so deviously structured, almost intelligent, with these long, sharp spikes that jut out directly from the eye. All I can picture is trying to cure the fish by putting some medicine in there, and the spikes going limp and falling off, or having to pull off each spike individually with pair of tweezers. Every time I pass by the aquarium I don’t dare look. Just thinking about it literally gives me the shivers. Must be the single most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen.