Very Bad Night

Last night (Friday Night) was bad but ended up ok.

I went to sleep right before midnight.
When I was taking out my contacts, my left Very Expensive multifocal lens dropped in the sink (water was off) and... bounced. (I have hard lenses and if they fall on something hard they bounce.)

I spent over an hour looking for it.
Hands and knees on the floor with a flashlight, in all the weird places on the floor... I looked through the garbage, in the toilet, everywhere.
It was nowhere.

I have 34 years experience finding contact lenses.
It was nowhere.

The last-ditch idea where it could have gone was..... a freakish bounce past the drain stopper down the drain.

I mean there was literally nowhere else.
So I had to look in the J pipe.

The way my sink is, the j-pipe site flush on the shelf, so I can't pull it down.  

I also couldn't unscrew the pipes and I don't have a wrench large enough.

I prayed.
I had a little panic attack.
It was 1am.

Aside from the replacement cost on that lens which is about $250, I really, really need the lens for all computer work.

So I HAD to look in the pipe.

It finally unscrewed.
But I couldn't pull it down and remove it to empty and look in there.

Because I am a good creative problem solver, I put a container near it and gently flushed water out.  I did make a mess but it was ok.

No lens.

I couldn't see all the way into the J pipe.

I was also low on paper towels but ended up soaking up the water from the J pipe into paper towels.
Then I put some paper towel on a screwdriver and tried to move the sediment forward.

My lens was there, hiding in pipe sediment.
OMG.

I rescued it.

It took 2 1/2 miserable hours.

What a freak thing, to bounce DOWN THE DRAIN past the stopper like that.