Today’s Music: KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See
When Trifecta goes topical, they don’t mess around.
The upcoming elections? Nope.
Government shutdown? Uhuh.
They’re channeling Halloween!
And I quote: “You’ve found some old books. On page 3 of one of the books, this illustration appears:
Give us the 33 words that follow this illustration. What happens next?”
Artist credit: Dan Duford
http://www.poisonedplayground.com
How could I resist?
Hoe you enjoy it.
We all knew that face, that mood, that pathos.
The blood curdling shrieks were familiar. The confusion, terror and anger would hover. He wouldn’t be relaxed again until he found his contact lens.
Guapola 
Oh look…..more than your Friday post 🙂 Gotta love zombies but think they are related to the government shut down. 🙂 Oh tomorrow is Sunday……guess that means my favorite pink Himalayan salt time
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I hope I can get to it. Family is in town.
I did use some this morning though on my eggs!
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Ohhhh a Sunday without the pink? 😦 Okay, will be prepared to make my own meal and use it….will think of you. lol
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Um, yeah, know that feeling…
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It’s an exercise in frustration.
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I don’t wear contacts, but I’ve seen people turn into crazed man-eating zombies when theirs are lost… so I totally get this. 🙂
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And somehow, we make it the entire room’s problem – “NOBODY MOVE!!!”
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Yep, and because of my bizarre eyesight glitch, I have a knack for seeing lenses from across the room. So, people who know this about me grab my head and move me around like I’m a metal detector. Except instead of finding gold, I find lenses. That I don’t even get to keep. 😉
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Surely the eternal thanks is enough!
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By the way…are you for hire? 🙂
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Haha, I’m surprisingly cheap… I work for puns, cheese, hugs, and/or diet coke. 🙂 And of course– airfare to the requested destination. 😉
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Surprisingly, cheese, hugs and diet coke are often here in abundance.
Puns, we’re overstocked on.
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Haha….love it!!
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Thanks!
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Apparently you need to participate more often….congrats on third place!! 🙂
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You get half the credit, since it occured to me while reading yours.
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Lol…thanks!
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I hate losing a contact too.
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That doesn’t happen to me too often. My problem is more the it-slid-off-my-iris-and-now-I-have-to-chase-it-around-my-eye.
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Ah, that feeling is all too familiar. I like your take on the prompt. 🙂
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Thanks! There are some great responses that are very dark.
Sadly, I think I can only go “goofy”.
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Hahaha I hate losing a contact lense
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It’s more than a justifiable cause for going nuts and biting people, I’ve always thought.
(Ignore what my parole officer said about it. He’s biased.)
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Why are they always biased? They just can’t seem to uphold to their vows of impartiality these days. It’s an absolute shame.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying!
Just need to find a judge who agrees… 😀
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Ha! I like that. I hope he finds the contact soon!
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Thank you! (It’s actually a self portrait.)
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Don’t be so hard on yourself. 🙂
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This made me laugh! Oh, I remember the days of early morning floor-searching for a dropped lens (never mind the muttered cursing that went with it 🙂
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Worse is losing it, finding it, and not having solution to clean it.
Adds a creative edge to the cursing.
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Always carry your back-up glasses, because you just never know what will happen in the swamp. 🙂
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It took me a loooong time to learn that lesson.
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You’re the Master of Plot Twists!
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I’m it’s husband!
(Didn’t see that coming, didja?) 😉
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Fantastic!
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Thank you!
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Oh my gosh. This is me. And my husband. I love this.
Heh. Government shutdown? You think we should do a 33-worder about it? Get people all riled up? Mmmmm. Could turn into a horror story. 🙂 Thanks for linking up, Guap. Our linkz look better with you in them.
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The lost contact lens is one of the commonaities of a few generations before this Lasik and disposable-extended-contact bhusiness.
Kids today never had it so easy.
Ha! I’m afraid of the image that would go with gov’t shutdown!
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Uhoh, I think he slept with them in. Did you see how his eyes are turning red?
That was a clever take on the prompt. Well done!
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Oh, I wish I thought of your reason first!
Thank you.
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You certainly nailed this one Guap and Zombies
are one of my favourite themes so how could I let
this one pass me by without a mention 🙂
Great writing from a guy with a a wicked imagination 🙂
Andro
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Thanks so much, Andro!
Hope your week has started well.
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You are welcome, and yes it has started
rather well Guap, thank you my great friend 🙂
Andro
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Myself I wear glasses.. but I know that feeling of not seeing anything…
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I wear glasses just about all the time now, partly because of the constant “lens popping out of the eye”.
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hahaha I’ve known people like this!
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Sadly, I’ve been people like that.
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Made me smile.
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Thank you, Mike.
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This suits the cartoon zombie’s expression perfectly.
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Thanks Cobbie. Having looked like that on occasion, I’m going to have to say that he’s a handsome young zomb- man…
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Been there
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Yep. way too many times.
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My husband always loses his in the sink. This seems oddly familiar… 🙂
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Does it count as lost if you know more or less where it is? 😉
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The contact lens ending came out of no where … so well done!
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Thanks Frank, but look at the poor fella. What else could it have been?
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Oh hang it all, Guap! No one EVER finds the lens, do they? ❤
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Sometimes, finding it when it’s been a heap of dust is worse than never finding it.
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Ha! Love it. Creative take on the prompt!
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Thank you Suzanne!
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Good one! Been there… searching in a swamp of soup or any number of impossibilities.
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You’d think we could get gps-tagged lenses by now.
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Hahaha! Excellent twist. Great take on the prompt!
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Thanks Ivy. I love that trifecta encourages any sort of take on their prompts.
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well that was beyond funny, thank you so much for the giggle.
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You’re very welcome!
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Good stuff!
Congrats on 3rd place. 😀
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Thank you and thank you.
I now feel comfortable including this in my memoir of autobiographical stories.
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Figured as much…
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I feel that shambling corpse’s pain. Disposable lenses are the key.
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To be fair, I don’t think zombies feel good about “disposable” anything…
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Hilarious! Genius musical choice!
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Thank you.
the song was my wife’s pick, after me saying “Dammit, I need a song” for the ninth time.
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Dang it, my Emil is holding onto stuff again – this just popped in today! 😦
Personally, that’s what I look like when somebody boots me outta bed before 8am! 😀
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That Emil is a jerk! 😉
Sadly, I look like that most of the time.
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Hey, that’s the same look I get when I run out of chocolate. Good job on the writing and the music! 🙂
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How could you let yourself run out of chocolate???
And it’s good to see you!
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“Take the picture already!!” (It’s not 33 words but it’s what I imagine!)
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Oh god, that’s perfect!
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When I first read your entry, the picture did not come up so I had to imagine what everybody was referring to. I refreshed and I see I wasn’t too far off. Nicely done, Guap. Now where’s ma lense???
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Thanks Kayjai.
This piece can also be easily edited for lack of food, beer, wine, what have you.
I once rinsed a contact lens with beer.
Sadly, that is not the stupidest thing I’ve ever done.
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You are so good at these! Hilarious!
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Thanks! I appreciate it when people have as much fun reading them as I did writing them.
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I unleashed one of those blood curdling screams the other morning when I thought I had dropped my lens on the floor. The only thing that gets me worse than that is when I can’t find my wallet, or if I misplace my cell phone (I’m usually looking for it AS I talk on it….pathetic).
Nicely done Tri-athlon.
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I’m a frequent victim of the
“Where are my sunglasses???”
“You mean the ones on your head?”
“Oh…yeah…”
game.
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Didn’t expect that. Oh my eyes.. 😀 😀
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Just put in a few drops of rewetting solution, your eyes will be fine. 😉
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Tried contact lenses years ago for 2 hours, couldn’t stand them! I kinda fancy being four-eyed now (only sadly I don’t wear glasses either).
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The only thing that upset me about not using contacts was not being able to jsut put on sunglasses.
Now I just where my contacts when I’m diving or climbing or something like that.
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I wonder if it was for the big eye, or the small one….
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Ha! I din’t even catch that!
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That would really suck to have two different sized contact lenses. This is what I imagine lurks at the bottom of a port-a-jon tank.
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My eyes have have slightly different prescriptions, so different sized eyes would make it a little easier.
And if your last observation is correct, I’ll just be blind, thanks.
Bleagh!
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Contact lens dry up the eyes. Sometimes a black frame eye glasses look cool thou
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And now for something completely different!
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