Erin wrote a great piece about putting a rubber eraser in his ear as a kid, in response to my comment about the black bean in the nose, and subsequent story about how I once put a tiny black plastic ball in my nose, and got it stuck there.
Then I got to thinking about other things that I shouldn’t have done like that, and I thought of the following two items (this originally was appearing as a post on Erin’s blog, but then it got funny):
I also swallowed a nickel and a marble as a kid.
Not at the same time however. I actually saw the marble come out in my poop later on. i remember it clear as day. The nickel though I never saw again, although I assume it passed peacefully.
The five cent piece was slated to be used the next day at lunch to buy one of those long shitty rod pretzels. For some reason, I was laying in bed the night before, thinking about purchasing this pretzel - all the while swishing the nickel around in my mouth absent-mindedly …. and well, I guess I just couldn’t wait anymore for this pretzel, and I swallowed the nickel instead. I was very alarmed about the whole thing, but realized no permanent damage seemed to have occurred, so I didn’t tell my mom.
What age, I wonder, do you stop using your mouth in such a weird random way as all that stuff? I mean, I no longer wonder what it’s like to hold things in my mouth like I used to. Marbles don’t seem so tantalizing. Although that black bean, for a second today really got me thinking.
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