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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 22375" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I was never vain about wearing my glasses. I figure the bottom of my frames kind of covers the bags under my eyes!</p><p></p><p> :wink:</p><p></p><p>I just have to share this story ... but it's kind of "sick". My grandmother always insisted that she DID NOT need glasses and got fightin' mad when anyone suggested that she did. Then one day when she was in her mid-seventies she suddenly relented and started wearing glasses! I was a kid at the time and never knew why until one of my older cousins told me recently. My grandmother always had a canary in a cage in her dining room. Some she had for quite a while, and when the canaries eventually did die, they were quickly replaced. Then suddenly her canaries started dropping like flies! Some would last a week, some only a few days, and then she'd find them feet-up on the bottom of the cage. After she went through a half-dozen canaries in a few weeks, one of my aunts thought to look in her cabinet to see what she was feeding them, if anything could be wrong with their birdseed. There WAS no birdseed! Instead of the one box of seed and one box of gravel that should be there, there were TWO boxes of gravel and NO birdseed! Because she couldn't see well enough to read the boxes, she had bought a second box of gravel instead of birdseed. And she couldn't see well enough to tell that she was filling their food dish with gravel! And after a steady diet of nothing but little rocks, the poor things just fell off the perch and died! She was so embarassed that she swore my aunt to secrecy. And for the rest of her life she insisted that there had been some kind of canary epidemic that killed all her pets, and that she had started wearing glasses because she d*mned well wanted to! No connection at all! </p><p></p><p>:smile:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 22375, member: 1883"] I was never vain about wearing my glasses. I figure the bottom of my frames kind of covers the bags under my eyes! [img]:wink:[/img] I just have to share this story ... but it's kind of "sick". My grandmother always insisted that she DID NOT need glasses and got fightin' mad when anyone suggested that she did. Then one day when she was in her mid-seventies she suddenly relented and started wearing glasses! I was a kid at the time and never knew why until one of my older cousins told me recently. My grandmother always had a canary in a cage in her dining room. Some she had for quite a while, and when the canaries eventually did die, they were quickly replaced. Then suddenly her canaries started dropping like flies! Some would last a week, some only a few days, and then she'd find them feet-up on the bottom of the cage. After she went through a half-dozen canaries in a few weeks, one of my aunts thought to look in her cabinet to see what she was feeding them, if anything could be wrong with their birdseed. There WAS no birdseed! Instead of the one box of seed and one box of gravel that should be there, there were TWO boxes of gravel and NO birdseed! Because she couldn't see well enough to read the boxes, she had bought a second box of gravel instead of birdseed. And she couldn't see well enough to tell that she was filling their food dish with gravel! And after a steady diet of nothing but little rocks, the poor things just fell off the perch and died! She was so embarassed that she swore my aunt to secrecy. And for the rest of her life she insisted that there had been some kind of canary epidemic that killed all her pets, and that she had started wearing glasses because she d*mned well wanted to! No connection at all! [img]:smile:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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