{"id":6518,"date":"2022-08-24T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/jokes-about-seeing-with-one-eye\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:06:18","slug":"jokes-about-seeing-with-one-eye","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/kolommen\/jokes-about-seeing-with-one-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokes about seeing with one eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-08-24T12:27:00+02:00\">24 August 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for those who do enjoy it, I say: keep reading and enjoy. Humor can help put things into perspective. When I slowly woke up in my hospital bed after the eye removal surgery, my children were sitting next to my bed, talking very quietly to each other. They were telling each other lighthearted stories, and I found that reassuring. I realized that if the surgery hadn\u2019t gone well, they would have been acting differently. The moment I was fully awake and my son realized I was listening in, he made me laugh by saying, \u201cLook, Mom, from now on I\u2019ll just turn a blind eye!\u201d     <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the surgery, I had to get used to seeing with just one eye. I would regularly drop things, trip over something, or bump into things. My sweet kids would politely ask if anything was broken and then say something like, \u201cYou really should watch where you\u2019re going.\u201d Whenever I knocked over a glass of something, one of the kids would always exclaim, \u201cWell, they\u2019re still just little kids, aren\u2019t they?!\u201d The comment I used to make so often came back to me like a boomerang.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the funniest comments was: \u201cWell, now you\u2019re set for a while,\u201d while six new glasses were pointedly placed right in front of me! It turned out that pouring cola into a glass wasn\u2019t as easy as it seemed when we were sitting at an outdoor caf\u00e9. I can still picture the bewildered faces of my children. But it took me a moment to realize why they were looking at me that way: I\u2019d spilled the cola right next to the glass, straight onto the table. The waiter immediately came running over with a napkin. But not a single child came to my defense. On the contrary, with stony faces, they shrugged and told the bewildered waiter, \u201cYeah, she does that every now and then.\u201d But the waiter looked even more surprised when I was the one laughing the hardest of all!       <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It takes some getting used to<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, I\u2014and the people around me\u2014have gotten used to the fact that I see with only one eye. Those awkward little mishaps happen much less often now. But that doesn\u2019t mean people don\u2019t play pranks on me anymore. On the contrary! Now it\u2019s mostly wordplay involving \u201cseeing,\u201d \u201clooking,\u201d and \u201ceyes\u201d! Here are a few examples. My son sat down on a chair across from my desk and said in a serious tone: \u201cMom, can we have a conversation vvvv\u2026\u201d and then, laughing hysterically, \u201c\u2026so, just the three of us?\u201d We never even got around to having a conversation! Recently, during a course, I asked one of my students a rather tricky technical question. The look on his face gave away that he didn\u2019t know the answer. Before I could respond, he suddenly looked at me with a big smile and said, much to my amusement and that of the other students: \u201cGeez, Anita, why are you asking me that difficult question? I thought that as one-eyed people, we should support each other a little\u2026!\u201d It turned out he also wore an eye prosthesis. What a wonderful sense of humor!            <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One-Eyed Grandma<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In front of my children, someone asked how my granddaughters Maan and Lot would refer to their two grandmothers to tell them apart. My son\u2019s answer came astonishingly fast: \u201cWell, that\u2019s really very simple\u2014Mom is just \u2018One-Eye Grandma.\u2019\u201d The person who had asked the question, along with the others present, covered their mouths in shock. They didn\u2019t dare laugh until they saw that I was the one having the most fun with the successful joke.   <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The best eye joke ever&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son suddenly noticed a spot in his \u201cvision,\u201d and that was a scare. Fortunately, he was able to see an ophthalmologist right away. It turned out there was a sort of air bubble under the retina of his right eye that would go away on its own. He did have to go back a few more times for checkups, though. During those checkups, they had to put drops in his eyes to dilate his pupils, and he hated that because he couldn\u2019t see well for a few hours afterward. His girlfriend said, \u201cIt\u2019s not that bad\u2014they do that to your mom too, and she walks home on her own afterward!\u201d Laughing hysterically, he called me to say that he\u2019d just pulled off the best eye-joke-ever by feigning anger and saying, \u201cYeah, but with her, they only put drops in one eye!\u201d      <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anita Hol-Bubeck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t like a little fun and games about seeing with one eye, I&#8217;d say: stop reading this column right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6519,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[112],"class_list":["post-6518","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-kolommen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}