Didn’t See That Coming
In the long-ago times before smartphones, I was working on a school project on Marco Polo and mentioned some random Marco Polo facts to a friend. She agreed that they were interesting and added, “It’s extra impressive because, you know, he was blind.”
I felt like, at this point, one of my books probably would have mentioned if he was blind so I asked her where she heard that. Her explanation was so hilarious, I still laugh to this day.
She told me that he must have been because why else would we close our eyes when playing the game? It started out gently as I tried to explain that Marco Polo was not blind but I didn’t actually know why we closed our eyes while playing Marco Polo.
I have since looked it up and allegedly it’s because Marco Polo didn’t have a freaking clue about where he was going. It escalated into a full-on screaming match about whether or not Marco Polo was, in fact, blind. He wasn’t, by the way. Story credit: Reddit