Wake Up Call #2 involved me getting hit in the head by a cricket ball … The only protection I was wearing at the time was a pair of glasses !
So instead of 5.25 ounces of hard ball (think baseball) going straight into my eye, my glasses spread out the impact around the eye. Result – one broken nose that could have been a lot worse …
I got away with one that day 🙂 Which served me well a year later when I got hit on the temple, with the impact being absorbed by a helmet that time 🙂