Pick your Brain
A friend related a story of some trouble she had on a recent road trip with her two boys and I had to share this. She’s cruising down the road with her boys in the back seat, ages 6 & 8, pretty much tuning them out and listening to the radio.In the back seat of the SUV they were riding in, the older boy is trying to convince the younger boy that if he sticks his finger far enough up his nose he can touch his brain. The younger boy, unconvinced, attempts to do just this and can’t seem to touch his own brain. So the older boy reaches up his own nose and states that he can touch his. The younger boy then takes his finger and begins to reach up into the older boy’s nose, totally interested in seeing what a brain feels like. The SUV shudders as it glides over a pot hole and the younger boy’s finger pokes further into the older boy’s nose, causing it to begin bleeding.
At this point, both of the boys are completely freaked out as they are now convinced that the younger boy has jammed his finger into the older boy’s brain and now has brain damage! They begin screaming and carrying on with blood flowing freely and the younger boy proclaiming that he has his brother’s brains on his finger. The mother, in utter bewilderment and becoming panicked from the sudden sight of blood, pulls off and examines the boys, bringing the situation under control.
Ahh… you just can’t make stuff like this up. I’m happy to report that both boys are doing fine and suffered no long standing trauma from the event. The elder son just enjoyed his 9th birthday and is looking forward to many more. Neither of them pick their noses anymore.
posted by Bonzai @ 8:39 AM
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