You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Let me set the scene:

Ty is on the bus on his way to school this morning. It has been bitter cold here, and when he left for school, it was -19. There are a lot of kids out this week because of some cold that has been going around, so Ty has his own seat on the bus this morning. It's early and Ty is kind of in a mellow mood. So he sits back and looks out the window. He notices the black metal bar that runs across the window- it's right at his eye level. Ty eyes it for a minute and has a 'great' idea.

At this point, I want to remind you all of the movie, "A Christmas Story." Ralphie has a friend (who's name I can't remember) that is "double-dog dared" to stick his tongue out on a frozen pole on the playground. When said friend does this stupid thing, he finds his tongue is stuck to the pole and he can't get it off.

Ty- having never seen this movie- thinks he is onto something "fun." He proceeds in sticking out his tongue and placing it on the frozen metal bar next to him. Apparently he screamed and started to cry when he found that his tongue was in fact, stuck to the window. Rather than waiting for a teacher or bus driver to help him out- he wigs out and pulls back. This rips off a large chunk of tongue and a good number of tastebuds with it.

Apparently he was pretty subdued the rest of the day.

It's one of those things that I want to laugh at, because I can't help thinking "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!", but at the same time- he is my son and is in pain. Anyway- bring on the Tylenol.