Smart kid. Still a kid.
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resonantThe Tech Goddess and the Good Bad Boy have two sons. The younger one is in his early twenties; he's living with them while he's in college. I like him. He's funny.
(The first time I met him, he was six years old and selling popcorn for the Cub Scouts. The Tech Goddess said she'd collect the money. I asked him, "Can she be trusted with money?" He said, "Not my money.")
Last week, when the Tech Goddess and I went out to lunch, she was very freaked out about this kid. He had had a headache for several weeks. Also some unexplained numbness in his shoulder and arm. He went in for testing today, and I asked her to call me when she had the results.
So tonight she calls me, laughing so hard she can hardly speak. "First of all," she says, "it's not a tumor."
"Cool," I say. "Of all of our families, he's the only one who can say for sure that he doesn't have a brain tumor. Next time I need someone whose brain has been proven functional, I'll call him."
Still laughing, she said, "Not so fast."
"He has whiplash," she tells me.
"What, did he have a car accident? A bike accident? And why didn't he tell you?"
"Um. See, he read on the internet that it was impossible to eat a teaspoon of cinnamon --"
"Oh, no," I said.
"Oh, yes. So he tried it. I guess mostly what happens is that you throw it up, but in his case it went out his nose. He sneezed himself into a case of whiplash."
(The first time I met him, he was six years old and selling popcorn for the Cub Scouts. The Tech Goddess said she'd collect the money. I asked him, "Can she be trusted with money?" He said, "Not my money.")
Last week, when the Tech Goddess and I went out to lunch, she was very freaked out about this kid. He had had a headache for several weeks. Also some unexplained numbness in his shoulder and arm. He went in for testing today, and I asked her to call me when she had the results.
So tonight she calls me, laughing so hard she can hardly speak. "First of all," she says, "it's not a tumor."
"Cool," I say. "Of all of our families, he's the only one who can say for sure that he doesn't have a brain tumor. Next time I need someone whose brain has been proven functional, I'll call him."
Still laughing, she said, "Not so fast."
"He has whiplash," she tells me.
"What, did he have a car accident? A bike accident? And why didn't he tell you?"
"Um. See, he read on the internet that it was impossible to eat a teaspoon of cinnamon --"
"Oh, no," I said.
"Oh, yes. So he tried it. I guess mostly what happens is that you throw it up, but in his case it went out his nose. He sneezed himself into a case of whiplash."
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Date: 5/21/08 01:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 5/21/08 01:30 am (UTC)That is a hilarious story. Poor kid, but hee!
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Date: 5/21/08 01:33 am (UTC)Me, too!
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Date: 5/21/08 01:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 5/21/08 01:36 am (UTC)I shouldn't laugh, but I kind of can't help it.
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Date: 5/21/08 01:41 am (UTC)But I do think this calls for a Gryffindor icon. :-)
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Date: 5/21/08 01:42 am (UTC)*vbg*
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Date: 5/21/08 01:58 am (UTC)Not the cinnamon, but the whiplash from sneezing. Torn traps. Cervical collar for a week. Misery. Big painkillers. And so on.
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Date: 5/21/08 02:51 am (UTC)The best part was, he did it right in front of the reporters, so they couldn't even speculate what he was actually doing that threw his back out.
Then there was the guy who hurt himself carrying a side of venison up a staircase... yeah, the reporters didn't believe that one either. Baseball is full of awesomely WTF injuries like that.
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Date: 5/21/08 02:17 am (UTC)I mean, terribly funny.
also, yuck! I can't imagine trying to swallow a teaspoon of dusty cinnamon!
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Date: 5/21/08 02:46 am (UTC)...also, add me to the group of people who want to try eating a teaspoon of cinnamon now. Oh dear.
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Date: 5/21/08 02:51 am (UTC)wat a moment
Date: 5/21/08 03:40 am (UTC)Re: wat a moment
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Date: 5/21/08 05:19 am (UTC)Cinnamon is hot and bitter and wtf would anyone want to eat a spoonful of it? Makes my nose itch just thinking about it!
(According to Alton Brown, most of what's sold as cinnamon in the US is not, in fact, cinnamon, but some close relative that's a lot cheaper.)
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Date: 5/21/08 05:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 5/21/08 06:52 am (UTC)Apparently the tradition of fruit+nose=fun runs in our family because my mother tells the story of the time she took toddler me along in the stroller while she went shopping at Bloomie's, and gave me a little carton of raisins with which to occupy myself. When she finished shopping she looked at me and saw that my nose was strangely and suddenly lumpy. Yep, I'd stuffed most of the carton up there out of sheer boredom. I think they had to be removed in the emergency room.
Ah, good times.
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Date: 5/21/08 02:05 pm (UTC)My mom remembers seeing a little kid playing with a dried bean, and his mother walked by and said, "Now, don't you put that bean in your nose," and she says you could almost see the light bulb go off over his head -- and he stuffed the bean up his nose and had to go to the ER to get it removed once the moisture made it swell.
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Date: 5/21/08 01:36 pm (UTC)Maybe if you chewed up the unground stick?
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Date: 5/21/08 02:06 pm (UTC)Hm. I discover that I know this from experience, but I don't remember when I would have been so foolish as to chew a cinnamon stick.
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Date: 5/25/08 12:36 am (UTC)Good times, man. Good times.
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