Thanks for bringing this back up. I never did get to report on my eye drop sampling.
The Japanese company Rohto distributes 2 eye drops in America. Zi and V.
Zi is for dry eyes while V. is for red and dry eyes (hear that Charlize?).
Neither Zi or V. is anything like Zi0. They are more like Visine. However I seem to use V. the most, just because I have somehow lost every other bottle of Zi0 but the V. is hanging around.
From the website:
Always remove contact lenses before use to avoid damage that may be caused by an eye drop preservative.
Rohto Zi (or V.) is unique among eye drops in that it is packaged in a transparent bottle. The bottle allows you to see if the product has changed color or become cloudy.
Is the color change and cloudiness good or bad?
Maybe it's like finding a golden ticket in you Zio and then you can go on a magical tour of the Zio factory.
I left it rather late to get eyeglasses and was half-blind when I did get them. This had the interesting result of making me feel like some short, squat cartoon character. Because I could see the ground so clearly --indeed, every blade of grass stood out -- I felt like I had shrunk so my head was about 2 ft off the ground.
And people, do not share your Tom Cat's Piss eyedrops and pass the bottle around amongst your friends. This can lead to eye infections. I used somebody else's over Christmas and consequently had a very festive-looking eye. My right eye looked like a rotten cherry stuffed into a clap-ruined vagina. Indeed it sickened everybody who saw it so much that I had to wear an eyepatch with a nice clean eye drawn on it with a marker pen.
Walking into the (ahem) Everclear show at Bumbershoot 2002 with Kevin, Mikey, and beeeph a bit inebriated. The security guard searched beeeph and revealed not one but two bottles of Visine. When asked why he had two bottles of visine (not strictly contraband, yet suspicious none the less) beeeph replied, "I smoke a lot of pot." In we went.
Zi and 
V.
