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Old 10-18-2006, 03:08 PM   #9
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Another story from high school. I was in the band, and we went on some outing, and a football game broke out, which happened often.

As we're playing, the love of my life wandered over to watch. She was a pom pon girl, the homecoming queen, and was voted the most attractive girl in our senior class. Plus, she was really nice. Like every other guy in our class most likely, I had a raging crush on her, though mine had actually begun all the way back in eighth grade, before she was even beautiful. I was too shy to ever talk to her, though, so my love was unrequited.

She was wearing a lacy dress, and she was a vision as she lay on her stomach on the grass watching us play. (She was sensibly a yard or two out of bounds.) Lo and behold, I end up catching a short pass over the middle running full speed in her direction as I tried to outrun some 140 pound linebacker to the corner. I hit the sidelines about five yards from her and had to turn it upfield right as I got nailed. Tumbling, tumbling, tumbling, and when it was over I was about six feet from her, sitting up with a big hole in my elbow where it had been impaled by a stick. It was brutishly ugly - a big hole right on the forearm side of the joint, all bloody and weird because it was a puncture wound that was almost an inch across.

She was more than a little grossed out, and the other players were all coming over to look at it, too. I had no choice in the matter. I got up, moved my arm around a little to be sure it wouldn't fall off, and went back into the game with a bloody, gaping wound. You don't be a wimp in front of a woman like that, and even though she had a kind of funny disgusted look on her face, I think she secretly was very impressed about how tough I was. We played football at least twice a week before band practice, and it would break open and bleed every time, so she had to think I was the toughest guy in the world by the time it finally healed. Sadly, though, it didn't compel her to come to me and profess her love or anything.

It took that thing weeks to heal, and I had a scar for years.
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