Truthful Tuesdays Volume Four

• Posted on May 12, 2015
• by Jamie Stahl
• in Truthful Tuesday
• 1 Comment.

This Week’s Truthful Tuesday: Tater Tots Broke My Wrist

This is a story that takes place during my freshman year of high school.  For some reason I always liked to do my homework while sitting on the floor of my bedroom.  I didn’t like to use a desk or a table.  I liked to spread out across the floor.  Sometimes I’d sit with my legs crossed.  Sometimes I’d lie down on my elbows.  Sometimes I’d lean up against my furniture with my knees tucked.  Thinking about it now, I don’t really know how comfortable the floor was if I changed my position on the floor so often.  One night I was in my furniture leaning knees up position studying for a Social Studies test.  I was leaning the Social Studies text book against my legs and reading (attempting to pay attention to) a chapter.

At some point my Mom had started calling out to me that my food was ready.  I was SOOO excited because my Mom made me Tater Tots and I LOVE Tater Tots!  I slammed my textbook down as if the house was on fire.  Then I pushed myself up from the floor,…unsuccessfully.  Let me explain.  To get up from the position I was in, I put both of my hands behind my back on the floor with the intent of pushing myself up to a standing position.  I, unfortunately, did not make it to the standing position, as I did not push off the floor hard enough.  I couldn’t catch my balance and fell back onto my right wrist.  I think I was in shock from the pain and I also really wanted those Tater Tots because I didn’t cry or make a huge scene.  Of course, I yelled and ran to my Mom and said, “I think I just broke my wrist,” but I also ate my Tater Tots.  Afterwards, I put ice on my wrist and that is when the real drama started.  I had to go to the orthopedist where I had x-rays taken to find out that I had broken my growth plate in my right wrist.  I got a cast put on for the next six weeks and continuously had to explain the story of how I broke my wrist.  I didn’t have a cool story like I broke my wrist skydiving or driving a race car.  I literally broke my wrist because I wanted to eat Tater Tots.

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