diff --git a/examples/interacting.html b/examples/interacting.html
index 969e38f..b5c8003 100644
--- a/examples/interacting.html
+++ b/examples/interacting.html
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 
     <div id="placeholder" style="width:600px;height:300px"></div>
 
-    <p>One of the goals of Flot is to support user interactions intelligently.
-    Try mousing the above plot.</p>
+    <p>One of the goals of Flot is to support user interactions. Try
+    pointing and clicking on the points.</p>
 
     <p id="hoverdata">Mouse hovers at
     (<span id="x">0</span>, <span id="y">0</span>). <span id="clickdata"></span></p>
diff --git a/jquery.flot.js b/jquery.flot.js
index e8a5cf4..f2371fd 100644
--- a/jquery.flot.js
+++ b/jquery.flot.js
@@ -1600,8 +1600,8 @@
                 pos.x2 = x2axis.c2p(canvasX);
             if (y2axis.used)
                 pos.y2 = y2axis.c2p(canvasY);
-            
-            item = findNearbyItem(canvasX, canvasY);
+
+            var item = findNearbyItem(canvasX, canvasY);
 
             if (item) {
                 // fill in mouse pos for any listeners out there