I just got this blog post from a friend of mine at myspace. The link is:
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As the title implies, I've got a hickey on my forehead. Well not really a hickey but for all intents and purposes, that's what it is.
Here's what happened.
Yesterday my daughters ages 3 and 5 were playing with a small suction cup. They were sticking it on their arms and cheeks and laughing like crazy. So here I come and decide that it would be really funny if I stuck the thing on my forehead. It worked like a charm at first, it stuck pretty well and the girls thought it was hilarious. Then my wife pulled it off and I acted like it was sucking my brain out and it made this pop sound when it came off. Very funny, until I looked in the mirror and noticed a small red mark in the middle of my forehead. To my horror I noticed that it looked more like a hickey than a red mark. As we were still laughing about the "pop" sound I said something along the lines of "I hope this didn't make a hickey" to which my wife just stared and began to laugh harder. She was not sympathetic to my plight in the slightest. It was at that point that I knew I had made a grave mistake of judgment.
I immediately went to the computer and looked up how to get rid of a hickey. Most of the sites said to not get one in the first place. Wow, thanks for that, I'm not looking for prevention I'm looking for a cure. Most of them said that you should put ice on the affected area. Now I'm sure this is intended to be applied to the neck and not the forehead as was my case. As you can probably imagine holding ice against your forehead is tantamount to feeling like your head is splitting in two. But what the heck, desperate times call for desperate measures. Much to my wife's delight however the ice only resulted in a miserable wet forehead with a red mark blazing like a laser beam out at everyone.
So at this point I was totally freaked out, it was Sunday night and I had to go to work the next day, plus I had several meetings to go to. I stressed about it much to my wife's delight. For some reason in our family the best prank you can pull on someone is to get them to willingly do something stupid and then laugh at the results. So she spent the entire evening convincing me that everything would by alright and it was nothing to worry about. But if by some outside chance it hadn't went away she had several plans for me to camouflage the mark. Some of them included: a Karate Kid style headband, make-up, getting hickeys on the rest of my forehead so it wouldn't show so much, putting glitter on it, and resting my head on my fist all day so it looks like it just happened. After careful consideration I decided that none of these would work and that they were most likely designed to make me look even more foolish than I already did.
So anyway, I woke up this morning and there was not one bit of change. It basically looked like someone had hit me with a gobstopper out of a wristrocket. No joke.
So what happened? I went to the meetings and acted like I didn't notice the fact that people were talking to me and staring at my forehead. I rehearsed some excuses, including a car accident and a fight but it never came up. So here I am over 24 hours later with a beacon on my forehead.
I have to be honest. This is very embarrassing and I wish it would go away. Now I feel better having written about it. Thanks for your understanding.
TH
