“You’ll shoot your eye out” has been my little running joke with The Boy, my 7 year old little buddy, ever since he started playing with the high powered Nerf guns.
I should have said “You’ll shoot my eye out,” because tonight he did. I heard “Hey, Daddy, look,” turn around and see him 15’ away. With a mischievous grin, hhe pulls the trigger on his new gun; a bullet flies like a rocket straight into my open left eyeball. Sniper nails his target! To the knees I dropped, clutching the eye, reeling...and possibly swearing a bit. After a few minutes of both of us calming down — me from how bad it hurt and him from being scared that he blinded me, or from the potential 6 years of being grounded, I’m not quite sure — we were rolling and laughing about how improbable his shot was. It was awesome! And 2.5 hours later my vision is still kind of cloudy in that eye and it’s throbbing, feels kind of like a lash is stuck in it. But we’ll never forget the “2018 Nerf shot heard ‘round the block”!
I should have said “You’ll shoot my eye out,” because tonight he did. I heard “Hey, Daddy, look,” turn around and see him 15’ away. With a mischievous grin, hhe pulls the trigger on his new gun; a bullet flies like a rocket straight into my open left eyeball. Sniper nails his target! To the knees I dropped, clutching the eye, reeling...and possibly swearing a bit. After a few minutes of both of us calming down — me from how bad it hurt and him from being scared that he blinded me, or from the potential 6 years of being grounded, I’m not quite sure — we were rolling and laughing about how improbable his shot was. It was awesome! And 2.5 hours later my vision is still kind of cloudy in that eye and it’s throbbing, feels kind of like a lash is stuck in it. But we’ll never forget the “2018 Nerf shot heard ‘round the block”!