Terrible Similes Rewrite Vol. 2 Directions: Read and then rewrite these terrible similes! Be creative (and school appropriate!).    He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.   NEW:     Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.   NEW:     He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.   NEW:     She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.   NEW:     The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.   NEW:     The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.   NEW:     It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.   NEW:     It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.   NEW:     He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.   NEW:     The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.   NEW:     Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.   NEW:     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.”   NEW:     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.   NEW:     The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.   NEW:     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.   NEW:     Her pants fit her like a glove, well, maybe more like a mitten, actually.   NEW:         Fishing is like waiting for something that does not happen very often.   NEW:     They were as good friends as the people on “Friends.”   NEW:     The sunset displayed rich, spectacular hues like a .jpeg file at 10 percent cyan, 10 percent magenta, 60 percent yellow and 10 percent black.   NEW:     He was as bald as one of the Three Stooges, either Curly or Larry, you know, the one who goes woo woo woo.   NEW: