This time it is ZITS.
Anyone have any funny, horrible disgusting zit stories?
I only ask because a frined of mine just e-mailed me from Australia, where he moved to about 20 years ago.
The last line of the e-mail had me smiling.
"Pop bubbles, with shovels....I did". was the line.
Let me explain.
We were working together for a marine construction company that had gotten the contract to build chain-link fence around buildings and structures at the Navy base.
This particular day I show up to work on the Monday with a cyclops. I define a cyclops to be a really HUGE zit right between your eyes...and this was a beauty. I had thought about popping it that morning, but I wanted my friend to have a chance to see it in all its glory.
It was well received. Too well in fact. For the rest of the morning my buddy was bugging me about it...it drove him nuts. All he wanted to do was squeeze it. So, not popping it gave me a great deal of enjoyment, watching him stare at my prize and unable to do anything about it was great fun.
The guy even threatened that if, by the end of the day, I had not popped it he, and a particularly large guy on our crew, would do so for me.
Well, an hour or so went by after we had eaten lunch and my friend and I were shoveling dirt into a truck.
As luck, or lack thereof, would have it I happened to lean over to get a shovelful of dirt just as my buddy was heaving a shovelful into the back of the truck.
His shovel connected with my forehead and split my pride and joy right down the middle. When I finally raised my head after cursing in pain for about 10 minutes the whole crew was staring at me. Every pair of eyes focused on the space between my eyes.
When they saw what he had done they all turned to him in shock as if he had done it on purpose. He shrugged and stated "Pop bubbles, with shovels...I did". It took the foreman about fifteen minutes to get everyone working again, once they stopped laughing.
Zits...gotta love 'em.
