My son jammed a small piece of lego really far up his nose . . .

[davisgang90]

Your son is so lucky!  When I was a stupid kid I had to put a button up my nose!

[Raenia]

Glad to hear things were resolved with a minimum of fuss!

The only story I have ever been told about my Great Uncle is when he stuffed a lima bean up his nose and didn't tell anyone until it started to sprout.  The doctor had to break it into pieces to get it out.  Kids are idiots.

[OtherJen]

No need to ask.  I suspect that 99.9% of the time when an object becomes lodged up anyone's nose it's because the owner of said nose was being a damned idiot.

My 4-year-old rationale was that I thought it would fit and wanted to see if I was right. I was. Hadn't given much (any) thought to what would happen next.

In a kid your son's age, it's more a bad combo of curiosity and lack of forethought. If he does it again, then yes, he's an idiot. ;-)

[calimom]

I once lost a dvd player when a toddler jammed a bagel into the narrow opening.

[magnet18]

There is an old Norwegian poem about this:

""And don't put
peas up your nose
while I'm away",
said our mother and left.

That was something
we had never thought about.
So that is what we did."

-Marit Tusvik, 1984

This is hilarious. Putting small objects up the nose in childhood is such a universal human behavior.

And why on earth is it?

You'd think natural selection would've weeded it out millenia ago

[GuitarStv]

I once lost a dvd player when a toddler jammed a bagel into the narrow opening.

At least it didn't go up his nose.  :P

[calimom]

I once lost a dvd player when a toddler jammed a bagel into the narrow opening.

At least it didn't go up his nose.  :P

It was not replaced and did bring an end to mulitple re-viewings of 101 Dalmations, so there was that.

[Goldielocks]

My daughter stuck an object in her ear at around age 4.5..  It was an arts and crafts googly eye.   Try telling all the health staff " I have an eye in my ear"...  the confusion abounds.   It was round and slick and they needed a tool like a long straw with a little balloon at the end, and we went from the emerg. clinic to emergency at the hospital for the right tool.

There was a 6 hour wait at the emergency department after a 2 hour wait at the clinic, of course.

She got a purple freezie at the end of it.   

So the next week she did it again.  For a freezie.   ARGH!!!