Brick Wall

[kinzel]

Have you ever actually run into a brick wall?

I did it once when I was 13 or 14, at speed, when I jumped over a brick wall while running...
not realizing that I was about 4 feet too far to the left of where I needed to be.

I did an upright body-slam of the second brick wall, still moving at a pretty good pace.

Blood, bruises, stitches, aches, and scars. And I was pretty lucky. Another 4 feet and I'd have had a 30 foot drop, too.

I mention this topic at all because there's a brick wall ahead in the revisions I'm working
on and I'm trying to avoid that second brick wall *and* the 30 foot drop.

I will return to previous topics in the next few days. Not tonight though, and possibly not until Monday or so.

Comments

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Does smacking your head into it count? I was playing on our side yard swing set as a kid, on the board we'd hung from laundry rope because it had that "Tom Sawyer" feel to it (and we'd loaned the swing's chains to my school for a production of A Christmas Carol and hadn't gotten them back yet). The rope gave way, sending me flying toward the house, headfirst into the brick wall.

So now I know I have an extremely hard head. The brick chipped -- a sizable chunk about 2" long, 1" wide, somewhere between 1/4" and 1/2" thick. :-)

[sraun]

Not a brick wall - but I have run into a 1' birch, does that count?

Some elementary school summer day - probably between 4th & 5th grade, or 5th & 6th - we were playing tag in the back yard. I'm running full speed, looking behind me to see how far in the lead I am. I my head forward, and see this birch tree six inches in front of my face.

Next thing I know, I'm on the living room couch (what? I'm not allowed on the living room couch!), and my field of vision is a nice 60% neutral gray. I spent that night in the hospital under observation. IIRC, that was my only overnight hospital stay until I was around 25.

[dhw.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes.

That may explain a lot.

Shock is a weird weird feeling.