Eeeeeek!!! I almost quit reading at this point:
Most people don't gouge at their eyeballs like that. Like, full on, with your fingernail. Eye wide open
Glad I stayed with it.
LOVE this.
The boy had a wandering eye.
No. Not a wandering eye. A wandering eye would've been ok, plenty of people had wandering eyes. He had a glass eye. And a glass eye...that was definitely not ok. That was not even close to ok...
Reminds me of my mother-in-law, oh so casually narrating a recent incident at the Elks' Club. This guy drank too much and LOST HIS EYEBALL. His #1 fear was coming home without it, as they were scheduled for 50th wedding anniversary portraits the next day. I forget how the story ended. All I remember now is how cavalier this woman sounded, as if "Hey, I can't find my eye" is something you hear every day.
Oh! That story about the glass eye made me laugh so hard. Something about the way you related it 🤣
I'm glad you kept reading. I don't know how the prompt "ball winder" got me to cybernetic eyeballs and time-travelling secret agents, but there it is. Freewrite prompts can stir up all kinds of weirdness in the psyche.
It's good to see you @carolkean! Thanks for stopping by. I'm just jumping back in here on Hive, we'll be seeing more of each other I'm sure ✨
I laughed so hard when my mother-in-law told the story, and she didn't seem to get why it was so funny. Just another day in small-town Nebraska!
I'm now reading The Cornbread Mafia... the ebook was on sale for $2. Set in Kentucky.
Good to hear from you too, and I do hope to see more of everyone -I fell off the face of the earth and have been trying to hitch a ride back. Hmmm, those Chinese spy balloons might offer a foothold... or not!
Her not understanding why it was funny is almost as funny as the story itself 😆
So you were on hiatus too? I see. In that case, hail, fellow traveller, and well met!
But yeah, watch out for those spy balloons 😁
Yes!!
This is why Leslie Nielson is so hilarious in Airplane and the movie where O.J. Simpson goes down the stadium stairs in a wheelchair (Naked Gun).
Of course I am embarrassed to confess that I laugh every single time I see this. It makes no sense. I hate violence and suffering but THIS makes me laugh, because, WHY....