SkipD said:
Of course, most of us who grew up around BB guns heard "you'll shoot your eye out" from our own Moms long before that movie ever came out. That's what makes this so funny for a lot of us.
I didn't shoot my eye out but I came close on a neighbor kid. This sounds like a lie but it is true.
My neighbor, David, was peeking out of a large knothole in a barn door. His brother said, "David is looking out the knothole. I bet you can't hit the knothole". The words barely escaped his mouth and I turned and fired a hail mary shot. The next thing you hear is David thrashing around in the barn. Then the door flies open and runs past us with a BB stuck right below his eye in his cheek and he is yelling at the top of his lungs, " I AM TELLING DAD!" We tried to catch him but couldn't. This was around the mid 70's and a different time to say the least. David's dad, who looked like he was carved out of rock, gave me a serious butt whippin with the belt right then and there. Then he told me to go home and tell my dad what I had done, and what he had done about it. I was no dummy. I kept my mouth shut for at least 5 years before I ever told my dad about it. ;D
