We did have a pretty bad injury on that tire swing. We would always mess around, like, me and my friends, like, we would always like tease each other and, like, if somebody knocked you off the tire swing you would, like, pretend to get hurt and, like, just kind of goof around. And so that happened to my friend one time. She had fallen off, and she, just like, kind of started crying and we were like, “What is going on? Like, it’s not funny, like, we–you’re fine.” And she got up and I just remember, like I can picture this right now, she had–the tire swing had kind of stopped swinging, like, right above her–she was on the ground–and she got up and she looked up with an open mouth, and whole, like, bottom jaw was full of blood. And we were like, “Oh my God, this is not a joke.” And so I remember her just, like, crying, but having a mouth full of blood, and you just, like, run to get the person–there was always just, like, somebody’s parent or something who volunteered to be the playground monitor, which, my God, looking back, what a boring gig but yeah, I just remember turning and running to show the person who was the playground monitor and being like, “Needs help! Needs help!” And, like, it was always kind of a privilege to be the person who, like, escorted somebody into the office.
So, probably, I don’t remember, but I probably, like, you know, elbowed my way into being the person that, like, walked to the office with her. I also remember, even at the time, thinking like, “Wow, that’s pretty gnarly.” Not, like, “Ew, oh my God,” but just, like, “Whoa, that was crazy, she, like, almost bit her tongue off,” which I think is what happened. I think she somehow fell and bit her tongue really hard, which sucks, but I do not think that she, like, lost–and I mean at the time we were being like, “Oh my God, she, like, bit her tongue off!” I remember that’s what we were repeating. But I think she was totally fine. I think she just bit it pretty hard.