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Alarm Clocks and Small Flashlights

Somewhere around 4:00-4:30 yesterday morning, I woke up. I keep a small flashlight by my bed, so I can check the time and know how much longer I have before the alarm goes off. So naturally I found the flashlight to check the time. I felt pretty groggy, and fell back asleep, not even paying attention to the flashlight still in my hand.

The alarm went off at 5:30. I was startled awake (which is the point of an alarm clock), and went to reach for the clock to shut off the alarm (keep in my mind that I still had the flashlight in my hand when I went to do this). Said flashlight fell out of my hand, hitting me in the eye. I suddenly went from a feeling of "Oh man, is it time already?" to a feeling of "Holy Sh_t, that hurt!". I also had a sinking feeling of "That's gonna leave a mark...".

I lay there incoherent and in pain for a few more minutes. By the time I did get out of bed, and went to check things in the bathroom mirror, the above sinking feeling had in fact come to pass. There was in fact, a nice red mark right under my eye. It's not real obvious (yet), but it's slowly progressing to a lovely blue-gray yellow. I think I'm probably the only person who has ever given themself a black eye while trying to turn off the alarm clock with a flashlight.

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Doney Days said…
Haha! I'm sorry Tracie, but it makes a great story! :)
September 12, 2009 at 12:28 AM
The Perry Family said…
In the words of Peggy...."What's wrong with his eye?" Who knew that her little statement umpteen years ago would finally apply to something....
September 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM
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