The unearthly koosh-ball

[primsong]

My husband liked to juggle but hasn't done it much recently, so when I came across our old basket of koosh balls I thought I'd sort through them. Discovered the really old ones were getting brittle as the rubber had aged, kind of like old rubber bands, so when they were tossed they shed little bits of koosh everywhere. Threw the guilty ones into the wastebasket and forgot about it.

Woke up in the middle of the night to an unearthly glow coming from the wastebasket in my room. Half-asleep me was a bit wigged out for a moment before tracking it to a glow-in-the-dark koosh down among its brethren gamely lighting up their resting place; a kooshy apparition of koosh-balls past. I am half-inclined to keep it and do something with all the glow-in-the-dark rubber bits now if I could think of anything creative with them - any suggestions?

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Woke up in the middle of the night to an unearthly glow coming from the wastebasket in my room.

I don't even know what koosh balls are, but this made me LOL.

[shirebound]

a glow-in-the-dark koosh down among its brethren... Oooh, how spooky! That would have got my attention for sure.

[primsong]

They're like a big pom-pom made out of thin rubber strands instead of fluff, about the size of a baseball, they come in all sorts of colors and were quite popular a few years back as they are super easy to catch when thrown and soft if you get hit by one. Now they also make them with various animal heads and legs sticking out of the kooshy part as a novelty but then they aren't something you can throw anymore so it kind of defeats the purpose.

[primsong]

I felt quite foolish for my confusion once I realized what it was!

[peripety]

I don't have any suggestions for you as to what to do with them, but I got a chuckle over the glowing wastebasket, ha! It would have freaked me out for a moment, too :D

[archersangel]

i have no suggestions, but koosh-balls always remind me of the rosie o'donnell show in the 1990s. she'd shoot them into the audience (with some sort of sling shot) & had pencils with them on top

[primsong]

I wonder if those were the "shootable" kooshes - we have a handful of them, they're smaller and have a built-in hefty rubber piece with a loop for your finger so you can shoot them at people like a big rubber band. X-D

[archersangel]

i think they were. i recall her hooking the looped end on some piece of plastic the stretch them more to shoot them further.