Each simile listed below was actually used by high school students in their various essays and short stories:

• He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
  
  
• She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
  
  
• The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
  
  
• McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
  
  
• From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 P.M. instead of 7:30.
  
  
• Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
  
  
• Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
  
  
• He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
  
  
• The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
  
  
• Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie, this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "second tall man".
  
  
• Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers race across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 P.M. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 P.M. at a speed of 35 mph.
  
  
• The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.
  
  
• John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
  
  
• The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
  
  
• The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
  
  
• His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.