nasal shotgun
Doctors must deal with this sort of thing every day, but thankfully it didn’t come to that.
Five p.m. yesterday, and as is usual for a Friday Becky brings the girls to pick me up. All the floors in the building where I work are controlled, and visitors have to phone through from the foyer to get their visitee to let them in. My phone rang.
On the other end was a very worried and emotional sounding Bella: ”Can you let me in please Dad?”.
”Sure – just coming.” Hmmm, what’s wrong, I thought.
I walked up to the glass door. Becky was holding Rosa, and in front of her I could see that Bella had been crying and had an apprehensive look on her face. Her nose was running, and just as I opened the door, she gave an almighty sneeze.
A piece of stone the size of half a goop-covered peanut shot out of her nose past me and through the open door, landing about two metres away.
”...and that’s why you should never stick things up your nose”, Becky said, obviously just completing a fairly instructional conversation with Bella.
Hopefully it’ll be the last time Bella does that.
house_monkey
26 August 2004, 23:02 #
But why a piece of stone?
Alan
27 August 2004, 08:31 #
I don't know. Presumably it was the only suitably sized object to hand. I didn't ask her. :-)
stephen
27 August 2004, 10:09 #
I can't hear you - I've got beans in my ears!
Alan
27 August 2004, 13:39 #
Don't even say it!
house_monkey
27 August 2004, 21:37 #
When I was but a wee boy I once stuck a piece of macaroni in my ear. I'm sure I had a perfectly good reason for doing so at the time.