“You’ll Shoot Your eye Out!”
6 min readDec 14, 2023
A Christmas Story about “A Christmas Story”
Ho, Ho, Ho!
“You’ll shoot your eye out!” may be December’s best-known refrain. You can overhear it in millions of households as Christmas nears, and you can be tormented by it for 24 hours on the day itself, should you choose. Ralphie is the pudgy, blond, nine-year old who desires an “official Red Ryder…
