Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Now it can be told
Once, when I was eight or nine years old, I was amusing myself by stretching a rubber band between my big toes. And see, that would have been enough for some people, but I took it up a notch and stuck a sharpened pencil in the rubber band, and twirled it up so that it would spin fast when I released it.
Then the doorbell rang, and I jumped up to answer it, because I was still into that kind of thing back then.
Of course, my feet were connected at the big toes, so I tripped, and I also punctured my leg on the pencil.
I tried to get my mother to take me to the emergency room, and she wouldn't do it. I spent a couple weeks dreading the onset of lead poisoning, which never arrived, although to this day I have a small, blue scar.
posted by Frenz | 3/30/2004 03:15:00 PM
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