Lead Poisoning?

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Ok what is that? At least three people now with something stuck in their skin?

Scary thing is ... Morgan, did you say blue?

Goddamned if I haven't been wondering what that think was under my skin for years. Shit I bet you I have the same "condition" as the rest of you!

Who ever thought kindergarten would be so brutal?!

Yeppers. It sure looks blue. I have a small white scar where you can follow the pencil points entrance into my palm. I vividly remember (no good deed goes unpunished) making sure that the pencil point was in my hand as I tickled the kid in front of me with the eraser.

The line moved suddenly and he backed up, driving the pencil into my palm.

Oops.

I opened my hand and the pencil stood up out of my palm. I pulled it out, of course. Thought the whole thing was academically interesting. (I worried about that "lead poisoning" thing, too, until the hoardes of people in my life reassured me that there isn't any lead in so-called lead pencils.)

I've spent a lot of fun years since saying "really? me, too!" as there seems to be a lot of us that are walking around with pencil injuries.

[Dravyk]

We need to form a club!

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

We need to form a club!

Cool!
We can have snacks and get fancy pencils with our club name on them and EVERYTHING!!! It'll be keen!!!

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

Cool!
We can have snacks and get fancy pencils with our club name on them and EVERYTHING!!! It'll be keen!!!

And then we can get some old blankets, and use my uncle's basement and put on a show!!!

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

And then we can get some old blankets, and use my uncle's basement and put on a show!!!

Oh, that would be swell!! My aunt has a bag of old clothes we can use for costumes!! We'll sell popcorn!! Wow, Drav, you're just so...so...swell!!!

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

Oh, that would be swell!! My aunt has a bag of old clothes we can use for costumes!! We'll sell popcorn!! Wow, Drav, you're just so...so...swell!!!

By golly, and you're peachy-keeno. All the boys at school say so!

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

By golly, and you're peachy-keeno. All the boys at school say so!

Gosh! I can't wait until Mom and Pop let me go out to the soda shop with a boy! I think the really cute guy from the school band that drives a Studebaker wants to ask me! At least, that's what Polly Ann and Carla Sue whispered to me in Mr. Feruson's math class!


For trivia freaks: I actually did date a guy in high school who played in the school band and drove a Studebaker. He gave me my first kiss. I was sixteen.