Tempus Fugit

[caddyman]

I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned this before at some point, though not for a couple or three years. Longer, probably.

Back in the late 80s, when this sort of thing was all the rage and I still had enough haior to warrant looking for a comb, I bought some hair gel. It was water-based and took about three hours to dry. Once it had done, it held your hair in what I can best remember as a coral-like embrace.

I only tried it the once. Not only was my ego protected by such tissue-thin defences that it could not take the ribbing that came my way, but I was forced upon reflection (literally: I looked in the mirror) to admit that I did indeed look like a fat Phil Collins. As I say, I never used it again, but I didn't throw it away. It became the home for two plastic eyeballs that spent the next 25 years balefully looking at the world from inside the jar.

Today, the day before we move, its luck has run out and I have poured the hair gel down the sink and washed it away.

I kept the eyeballs, though.

Comments

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

25 year eh?
That's (maybe) worse than me.


I hope you took photos of them though.

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

What about Claudius? Has he shown up?

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I recently threw out a roll of perforated papery plastic stuff that was used to make covers for jam pots when making home made jam. My mother had bought this when we lived at a farm and she brought it with her when she moved in with us in 1998. It still had the original price label on it. This declared to the world that the whole roll of some 1 yard x 18 inches stuff cost the grand sum of 1 shilling and thre'pence.
As we left the farm in 1966 and I didn't throw it out until I reorganised my shelves in March of this year I claim the prize.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you've kept 'em, Bry. You never know when a pair of plastic eyeballs will come in useful.

[sea-strands.livejournal.com]

Wishing you both good luck with the move!