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Percussive maintenance works on everything

This meme features a viral social media post sharing an unusual real news story: a woman who was blind for 13 years accidentally hit her head on a table while attempting to kiss her guide dog, and unexpectedly regained her sight. The post includes two photos of the smiling woman with her black Labrador guide dog: one indoor photo of her hugging the dog, and one outdoor photo of her sitting on a park bench beside the dog. Below the news post, a humorous quip compares the woman's random head impact fixing her blindness to 'percussive maintenance' -- the common colloquial term for hitting malfunctioning old electronics such as CRT TVs to get them to work temporarily, framing the odd medical event as a funny relatable example of this informal 'fix' working on humans too.
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RARE! Woman blind for 13 years hits her head on a table while trying to kiss her guide dog and recovers her sight.

Overview

This meme features a viral social media post sharing an unusual real news story: a woman who was blind for 13 years accidentally hit her head on a table while attempting to kiss her guide dog, and unexpectedly regained her sight. The post includes two photos of the smiling woman with her black Labrador guide dog: one indoor photo of her hugging the dog, and one outdoor photo of her sitting on a park bench beside the dog. Below the news post, a humorous quip compares the woman's random head impact fixing her blindness to 'percussive maintenance' -- the common colloquial term for hitting malfunctioning old electronics such as CRT TVs to get them to work temporarily, framing the odd medical event as a funny relatable example of this informal 'fix' working on humans too.

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This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of 9Gag, where it was posted under the title 'Percussive maintenance works on everything'. It repurposes a real unusual news story shared by the Instagram account 'General.knowledge.booster', pairing the news with a sarcastic relatable joke about percussive maintenance of old electronics to create a humorous viral meme that resonates with audiences familiar with the common joke of hitting broken devices to fix them.

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