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ratbastid · 09-01-2003, 06:42 AM

Wow, what a great thread!

Let's see. One time when I was 12 or so I was riding my bike with a friend. He was behind me and I was looking over my shoulder at him, cruising along very slowly for him to catch up, when I hit a deep, tall speed bump. Bike and rider went ass-over-handlebars. Pain.

When I was about 6 one time, my little brother and I were playing tug-of-war with a jumprope, around one of the corners in our house--he was down one hallway, and I was around the corner in a room, and we were kind of sawing on the corner with the jumprope. My dad came along, took my brother's end of the rope, gave it a firm yank, and pulled me right off my feet. I couldn't see him, he was around the corner. I flew head-first into the corner. 8 stitches.

Just yesterday I dropped a drinking glass about three inches. It shattered and a piece of it hopped up and tagged me inside the first knuckle of my right index finger. Bad place to get a cut--it bled like a mofo.

Once when I was about 10 I was at a playground, and there was a slide that had a fiberglass tunnel over the first few feet of it. I hung onto the metal bar that framed the top of the tunnel and swung on it, with the idea that I'd sort of sling myself down the slide. Unfortunately my right wrist caught on the top edge of the fiberglass tunnel and cut a nice deep cut inside my right wrist. What I remember most about it is how long we had to wait to see anybody in the emergency room. People kept coming in with head wounds and broken limbs and getting taken in ahead of me.

Whew. There are more, I just can't think now for all the vicarious pain.

09-01-2003, 06:42 AM	#46 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Wow, what a great thread! Let's see. One time when I was 12 or so I was riding my bike with a friend. He was behind me and I was looking over my shoulder at him, cruising along very slowly for him to catch up, when I hit a deep, tall speed bump. Bike and rider went ass-over-handlebars. Pain. When I was about 6 one time, my little brother and I were playing tug-of-war with a jumprope, around one of the corners in our house--he was down one hallway, and I was around the corner in a room, and we were kind of sawing on the corner with the jumprope. My dad came along, took my brother's end of the rope, gave it a firm yank, and pulled me right off my feet. I couldn't see him, he was around the corner. I flew head-first into the corner. 8 stitches. Just yesterday I dropped a drinking glass about three inches. It shattered and a piece of it hopped up and tagged me inside the first knuckle of my right index finger. Bad place to get a cut--it bled like a mofo. Once when I was about 10 I was at a playground, and there was a slide that had a fiberglass tunnel over the first few feet of it. I hung onto the metal bar that framed the top of the tunnel and swung on it, with the idea that I'd sort of sling myself down the slide. Unfortunately my right wrist caught on the top edge of the fiberglass tunnel and cut a nice deep cut inside my right wrist. What I remember most about it is how long we had to wait to see anybody in the emergency room. People kept coming in with head wounds and broken limbs and getting taken in ahead of me. Whew. There are more, I just can't think now for all the vicarious pain.