If you can shoot your eye out with a BB gun, can you stab a fingernail out with your tweezers?

Gun Safety

Senior citizen toy week

Phillip T Stephens
4 min readSep 10, 2022

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Man covers eye in front of target
Source image by Cookie Studio

RALPH AND HIS WIFE GINNY SUE finally sold the house after two years on the market. They even closed for sixty percent of their asking price. Ginny was heartbroken, but she was the one who wanted to sell, and they’d never been good at upkeep. Not to mention the current buyer’s market sucked, but the current market had sucked for the last three years.

Ralph wanted to wait it out, but Ginny was eager to move to an apartment in the city in one of those complexes with security and shops on the first floors of the buildings. Since COVID had allowed him to move his business online he no longer needed to keep an office, meaning he could run his business from the city and attract new clients as well.

He hired a professional packing service to clean and box up their attic, garage and storage sheds. Ginny Sue thought they should pack on their own, but that meant Ralph doing all the packing. So, professional service it would be.

A few hours after the service crew arrived, Ralph carried a pot of coffee and paper cups to the garage. The crew leader, a forty-year-old man named Dix, with a mullet and NRA tattoo reached behind a shelf and…

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