Can you get a black eye from a drink? You can if you’re opening a bottle of Champaign and aim the cork towards your eye. Who would do something like that you ask? Welll I hate to admit it but that’s just what my son did the other day. He bought the bubbly for me as a gift and I asked him to go into the kitchen and open it so I could have a glass. The next thing I hear is a very loud sound. In fact it was so loud it sounded like he dropped the bottle on the tile floor. As we got up to see what happened he was coming from the kitchen with his hand over his eye.
I was afraid to look fearing a bad injury, however he was laughing for having done something so stupid. His eyelid was swollen and became very black and blue. I guess the cork was really in there tight and he repositioned the bottle in his lap so he could open it and before he could move it again, POP!
While I agree it was careless on his part, the point of this post is that it can and does happen and he was lucky he didn’t injure his eyeball itself. So next time you’re opening some bubbly, keep this in mind.