Man, Phil,
You surely get yourself into some eye popping situations. Lol.  Laughing 
with you.   Also, I am very thankful that you got your eye back, in one 
piece, so-to-speak,  and that you didn't have a heart attack.  Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 6:33 PM
Subject: Believe it or not


> Eye Popper
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> By Phil Scovell
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> The term, "Eye Popper," or sometimes used when saying, "It was an eye 
> popping experience," has a simple
> meaning.  It means (to surprise, emotionally shock, sudden revelation), as 
> in, (a bolt out of the blue).  There is
> another word, not often used, but describes "eye popper" quite adequately, 
> and that is "serendipity," It means finding
> something of great value, an utter surprise in an unexpected and 
> unanticipated place).  Such is the nature of a recent
> experience of mine.
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> I was walking into the kitchen of our home.  We have a tall aluminum baby 
> gate at one entrance to the
> kitchen the blocks small grandchildren, and pets, from entering the 
> kitchen without permission.  Although, at this
> writing, all present grandchildren can let themselves in and out but I 
> digress.
>
> So I was walking through the gate and I had a tissue in my hands and 
> dabbing at the corner of one of my
> artificial eye.  Somehow, the tissue stuck briefly to the artificial eye 
> and when I pulled the tissue back, my eye
> popped out and began bouncing around on the hardwood floor of the kitchen 
> like a ping pong ball.  I quickly kicked
> the gate shut so no dogs could get into the kitchen and eat my 4,000 
> dollar eye.  In spite of my age, and aching back
> and leg muscles, I hit the floor because I heard one dog had already made 
> it into the kitchen.  I reached forward to
> grab him, yelling all the way for him to get back but he had already found 
> what had popped out of my head.  "Oh,
> no," I said frantically, but when the new basset hound puppy saw me 
> scrambling on hands and knees toward him, he
> dropped what he was checking out to see if it were something tossed to him 
> to eat.  I got it!  Man!  Did I breathe a
> sigh of relief over that one but I nearly had a heart attack first.
>
> What am I going to tell the doctor and insurance company?  "My dog ate my 
> eye?"  Sure!  And a chicken
> has lips, too, as my mother-in-law used to always say.