I have to tell you that I LOVE your picture and name! My DD gave me a subscription to Spotify for my bday, and I have been listening to The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Mollie, the Jack Benny program, etc, for months now! Got my DH hooked on them, too. Good, old-fashioned radio!
My Daddy and Uncle would say, “Here I come with both eyes open!” instead of “Here I come, ready or not!” when they would play hide-and-seek with us! That’s the only time I ever heard the first phrase instead of the second.
This has been an interesting discussion on the origin in the phrase in today’s comic. I never, ever heard it the way either girl says it!
“Better let him out before he smothers!”