…so I says to the lady, I says, “Well, that ain’t right, lady. An eye for an eye don’t make the whole world blind, I don’t see how that could be. Now, two eyes for an eye, that would have to do it, and pretty quick, but I don’t think you can do it with just one.”
The lady looked at me like I’d strangled a puppy in front of her, but I couldn’t have said two and two wasn’t four, either, and I didn’t see any reason to lie about simple math just because she was squeamish about eyes. She shouldn’t've brought it up if she was going to be that way.
Probably even two wouldn’t do it, not on the first try, I thought, because there’s a good chance that at some point everybody that needed to collect an eye would already be blind, and I sure wouldn’t let a blind guy pluck out my eye. No sir, no way.
Such were my thoughts as I wandered down the side-walk in heat that could bake a potato.
