So There You Have It

Mom was right. 

My brother, Uncle Chrissy to my girls, and I used to do silly things.  One of the silly things we used to do was flip our eyelids inside out.  We got so good at it that in a moment’s notice and quick as a flash we could have both lids on both eyes flipped out.  We figured out a magic pressure point that would cause this amazing phenomena that bugged my mom.

When she had finally had enough of our shenanigans she would say, “Lanny, you shouldn’t do that.  You’ll spoil your nice little face.  That will stretch out your skin and make it all baggy and icky looking.”   Apparently, either my brother had firmer skin than I did or she wasn’t worried about his beauty for she never gave him the same warnings. 

I did finally stop this practice.  It didn’t seem to go over as well with other fellas like it did with my brother.

But as far as I can tell, I stopped too late.  

Looking in the mirror this morning, I realized that mom was right, all that eyelid flippin’ has taken its toll.  I sure hope I don’t start running out of saliva, I’d hate for her to be right about our gleeking contests too.

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