I used to love it in school when random weird little things would begin a massive craze. Remember Pokémon cards? Yo-yos? I might be showing my age here, but Pogs too?
No wait, how about them sticky little hands you got in the 20p machines outside shops?
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Predictably, they'd all get banned from schools because people got too possessive over them, or they'd be hitting other kids with them... it'd be carnage. But for a few beautiful weeks they'd be the dog's bollocks.
In 2017, we have 'fidget spinners'. And here we all were worrying that kids would be stuck to iPhones and stuff. Turns out things don't change that much.
Prepare for this craze to be over as quick as it started because a mother has issued a warning to regarding 'fidget spinners' after her son "almost lost an eye".
The Australian woman, only known as 'Molly', said that the incident took place when her 11-year-old son, Isaac, was "showing friends some tricks".
Speaking to Kidspot, she said: "He threw the spinner up a little higher and he didn't manage to catch the spinner but it came down and clipped the corner of his eye and crunch.
"He was very lucky not to lose his eyesight let alone his eyeball."
Kidspot reported that Isaac has been left with scarring on his eye which "prevents him from seeing out of the corner" and has to turn his head in order to see.
The playground bans have already started up and down the country, and they'll soon be confined to the 'shit trends' page of history. Along with those little aliens that 'made babies' when you put them in the freezer. It didn't work. It never worked.
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Now I've said that, I really want the aliens.