one time, I shattered my nose and that gave me two black eyes for a few weeks. The next weekend, I went to a party, and one of my dumb but hot friends came up to me and said "are you ok? you look really tired!"
I replied "what are you talking about?"
"those dark bags under your eyes!"
"oh these? those are black eyes"
"oh my god! how did you get them!?"
"I stepped on a rake"
"Like in the cartoons??? no way! I'm so sorry!"
I shit you not. One of the funniest exchanges I ever had in my life. This post reminded me of that in a way.
some people are just retired, I guess