I thought this exact thing. Also, I thought it a bit odd that you gave the watermelon and the “eyeball” to the manager, posted here, and then went back to the store and they gave the “eyeball” back to you. Any manager worth his salt would’ve made that eyeball disappear as soon as you left the store.
“Hey, you know that eyeball I found in my watermelon that I gave you 45 minutes ago and am going to get you fired with?”
“Yes.”
“I want it back.”
Yeah, the OP’s story seems kinda fishy.
S’ok. I’m keeping my eye on him.
Seed proposals are withdrawn from discussion. Hopefully you can see why I made the mistake the first time.
I think that’s definitely it.
Carlyjay, don’t bother vomiting. You said you bought a grocery store’s pre-sliced watermelon package? I’ll bet anything that you got some sort of berry from a fruit salad compiled in the same location, from the same stock of watermelons + other fruits.
It was probably left over on the cutting board and got scraped in with the pure watermelon package. I’ve found blueberry’s in my sliced pineapple package before. Be concerned with how your berry seems so old and gross, not that it’s an eyeball.
This is the post that made me dubious. Nobody is going to automatically fire a store manager based on the events as you have described them.
They sure as hell wouldn’t return the evidence to you.
And I highly doubt that you would return and ask for it back:
“Yeah, so, hi…remember that eyeball that I gave you yesterday…? You still have it laying around somewhere???”
mmm
Pfft. That’s one of the cornea lines I’ve seen on here.
Puns…in GQ? Geez, keep a lid on it!
This thread doesn’t ring true. Why would they give you the watermelon back?
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I don’t think that we really need to start interrogating the OP with regard to the details of the story. Let’s stick to identification of the object. If you want to accuse the OP of lying about the details, please take it to the Pit.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
I went back 45 minutes later and asked for it back because I wanted to get it tested. I was afraid for my kid, guys. The manager gave it back to me so I could test it for my kid’s sake.
Anyways, I’m completely mortified as this story has gone viral. It’s all over the news. I’m totally humiliated already.
[Link deleted]. The SDMB figured it out concurrently.
Or is that con-currant-ly?
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I have deleted the link since it gives the real name of the OP.
If you wish to search for this story, OK, but please don’t link to stories that reveal this kind of personal information.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
ETA: Naming no names, to summarize the news story, the object was given to police, who brought it to a hospital where doctors determined it was not an eyeball, but probably decomposed fruit. A spokeswoman for the store said it was a dried-up blueberry.
It really did look like an eye. I’ve never nearly fed what appeared to be a wayward eye to a baby, but I suspect my reaction might be the same. Save the story and have a laugh with your daughter when she’s older. And come here next time. Jeep’s Phoenix figured out in 3 photos what stumped several others in person!
Question is…was it because he has dissected blueberries or um…nevermind. :eek:
The only eye I’ve ever tried to dissect was a frog eye in 7th grade science class…this was not successful at all, since the frog specimens given to my class were not in very good shape.
If I hadn’t been stuck at home due to all the ice, I probably wouldn’t have seen this thread at all. I certainly wouldn’t have been able to spend time in the kitchen slicing blueberries and taking pictures. 
Just work on your (blueberry) eyeball tart. Halloween will be here before you know it.
I recently had cataract surgery. I don’t know what they do with the eye lenses they remove.
Is that Fiestaware?