Praise God that the dog did not eat it!

I new when I saw the word "Eye Popper" that it was probably about your eye.

Blessings,

Pat Ferguson


At 08:33 PM 3/21/2010, you wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.