{"id":475,"date":"2012-11-02T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2012-11-03T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T20:57:37","slug":"im-having-a-bad-ear-plug-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/11\/im-having-a-bad-ear-plug-day\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Having a Bad Ear Plug Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The other day I was cutting tiles for our new bathroom (which isn\u2019t easy, because I have half the brain cells of Tim Allen, and I\u2019m a cartoonist, blogger, and pancake burner by trade) when I had the most unusual thing happen:<\/p>\n

I reached into my hoodie pocket and pulled out a handful of orange ear plugs. I rolled the first one up into a tiny pellet and shoved it into my ear. The second one didn\u2019t go as smoothly. When I tried to stuff it into my ear, it didn\u2019t want to roll up smaller. \u201cIt must be old,\u201d I thought.<\/p>\n

I pulled the plug out of my ear and looked at it. It wasn\u2019t an ear plug at all. It was an orange rubber pencil eraser.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, I reached into that same hoodie pocket for some ear plugs only to find it empty. \u201cWhat happened to my ear plugs?\u201d I thought. \u201cThey must\u2019ve fallen out!\u201d<\/p>\n

I walked over to the big box of ear plugs, and grabbed a few. As I headed back to the worksite, I rolled up the first plug and stuck it into my ear, only to find that I already had plugs in my ears. <\/p>\n

This was a new twist on the old \u201cHey, has anybody seen my glasses?\u201d routine. You know the one I\u2019m talking about. The one where somebody says, \u201cThey\u2019re on your head.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was worse. I think it\u2019s time to stop building on my house and take a vacation. <\/p>\n

Oh yeah. My son Elijah put the orange pencil eraser into the box of ear plugs for a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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