April 9, 2012

  • Homework Assignment 4/2

    Class, I really enjoyed your last assignment. I think I'm falling into that Hunger Games bandwagon.  It's a nice story and from what I've seen on the Tumblr it looks like a swell movie.  I really appreciate your participation in these posts.  You get an A.  There's always room for improvement and no one expressed interesting an an autographed photo.

    Now here's your next assignment.  It's going to be a little lengthy.  You're going to create a video game story.  You just drag the photo on the left to the blue area and write down what it says and that will be your story.

    A. 
     


    B.  
      

    Answer whichever question you want.  You can answer both for extra credit. 

    Now get to work.

    A.  My weapon: Assault rifle  My partner: Link  The Conflict: Saving the princess  My line when my partner dies: KYRIEEEE! 

    B.  I couldn't really remember a worst injury so I thought I'd share a few.  When I was 3, I thought I'd be like my dad so I took a lit cigarette and tried to smoke it but I put the wrong end in my mouth and burned my lip and I still have that scar.  When I was 4 or 5, I drove my Big Wheel down 3 or 4 flights of stairs and had a nasty concussion.  When I was 5 or 6, I drove a trike down some stairs.  When I was 7, I slipped on a Slip and Slide and severely bruised my coccyx.  When I was 8, I had a heat stroke and my kidneys shut down and I had a bladder and kidney infection and was unconscious for a few days.  When I was 10 I wanted to ride my bike...during Christmas break...and I hit an ice patch and got road rash all over my face.  When I was 14 I broke multiple bones in my hand after being hit by a pitch during baseball.  When I was 18, I tore all the ligaments in my knee during the state championship football game.  When I was 18, almost had a finger torn off by a dog that had the canine equivalent of Alzheimer's.  When I was 18, I busted a few ribs in a car accident when I hit a deer.  When I was 21, I rolled my car off a cliff and suffered really bad cuts and a bad concussion.  When I was 25, I was trying to multitask by washing dishes and watching the Packers on Monday night football.  One of my glasses shattered in my hand and I had to get stitches.  My pinky finger on my right hand is no longer rounded but has an angle to it because of the scar.  I had to drive myself to the emergency room that night and to keep my hand from bleeding I held it out my moon roof during the 25 minute drive.

Comments (46)

  • A. Oh lord, I HATED writing prompts in grade school where you had certain elements to use. I never could think of anything halfway decent for those, so I did poorly.  Boo, hiss. And zombie outbreaks are boring and uninteresting to me, so I'll pass on that. But I do have another short story in mind to write at some point so... completely different from the prompt this suggested. lol

    B. I think my worst injury was a huge slash on my right index finger. I was cleaning shotglasses and I accidentally smashed a glass in my hand, slicing a huge gash into my finger. I think it went to the bone. One of my hosts had been an army medic and he said that it really needed stitches but I refused - I was willing to take a scar which is still fairly noticeable after 1.5 years. So we just dunked my finger into vodka to help clean it up and bandaged it.  .... The funny thing about the whole story is that there was a dishwasher, but I've never used a dishwasher in my life which is why I automatically thought to hand-wash the glasses. :P I was made fun of for my lack of knowledge of dishwashers the rest of the vacation.

  • I do NOT like your assisting the Vikings thing on the conflict. AND ZOMG THEY CHANGE. I have nothing.

  • I'm going to answer the second question.  Mine was... a broken heart.  Time and space interferred with the physical and emotional act of love... then death occurred... just for love to cross through time and space to rescue me again.

  • I've never had a serious injury so I am not sure how to answer that one. I have had several. One where I slammed my chin against a tree stump. Another where I went down a hill on roller blades and slammed my knee and elbow into cement. I have a scar on my wrist and ankle from slamming into a water spigot and falling on my wrist. Ha. I don't know which one was the most painful, but I am surprised I haven't broken a bone with how klutzy I am. 

  • I had a hangnail

    It really did hurt like hell

    Poor Rob of the Sky

  • b. the second time I fractured my neck... I was playing college rugby and I am too tiny to do what I did (I was playing division one defense, hooker at 5'2" and probably 140 lbs.) we had a bad lock on a scrum and something had to give, unfortunately it was my neck. Don't worry, I finished the game and we won by a slim margin.

  • Ok not a bog video game junkie so that assignment would be lame, so I'll move on to #2, hmmm....I have so many.  But I guess the worst would be when I had my horseback riding accident.  I lost my stirrups and long story short lost my seat, I had a split second to decide to go forward into the path where I could have been trampled or veer off to the left into a huge bush, I chose the bush, bad bad idea.  I was rushed to the hospital after they caught my horse, couldn't get an ambulance to me where I was so I had to ride back 45 min.  By the time I got to the ER I couldn't feel my left leg at all.  I was admitted for partial paralysis which wore off in less than 12 hours.  My friends went back to see what the hell did I hit when I fell into the bush, they found slabs of concrete and a huge boulder. I was extremely lucky I didn't break my back or leg...ugh

  • I don't understand about the blue boxes. Drag them where? Do what with them? How? lol

    My wost injury cannot be revealed.

    frank

  • the first assigment is so cooool  ... i just kept dragging and dragging to see what came up  ... i guess i'll settle for these... weapon: a book (umm what?), partner: Pikachu, conflict: demon invasion, my line: Nooooooooooooooo! ...

  • A. weapon: crossbow
        partner: Dante Sparda
        conflict: being stuck in hell
        my line when my partner dies: Kyrieeeeeeee!

    haha I don't know who the guy is, or the reference of the last quote :P

    B. you know what, I don't even know. Not to totally jinx myself but I've never had any serious injury. I guess I'd say the most painful/inconvenient one was when I pulled both my hamstrings my junior year of high school. it sucked, I couldn't really run the same after that. plus it really hurt to walk... :

  • A: Weapon: Sniper Rifle Partner: Super Mario Conflict: Having to collect coins (...I see what you did there...) Line when my partner dies:  The right to be a god is now mine.

    B: When I was about 11, I was running with my cousins and sisters through the woods at my grandmother's house. I feel, landed on my left fist with my vertical. The pressure from the fall broke both of the bones in my arms, and you could see one of the bones poking out of the skin a little. The doctor had to give me like 5 shots of pain medication, put my arms in several braces that were hanging from the ceiling, threw his leg over my arm and pushed down on it to re-set it. It hurt like hell.
    My mom told me later that the doctor told her he could only relieve about 15% of the pain I was experiencing before he set it.
    Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I was in a cast for months. It sucked.

  • "Take my Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator!"

    Marvin the Martian struggled to utter these final words as he gasped his last breath.

    It was now up to me to blow up the Earth because it blocked the view of Venus.

    "Damn you Elmer Fudd! Damn you all to hell!" I cried at the loss of my lifelong friend.

    I have been injured ohh so many times... Probably the worst, was a spill off my bicycle, in which I broke my jaw, fractured my wrist, and cracked a rib. I was going a little fast and suddenly my bike stopped. It was my first and a most impressive lesson in inertia, and thus spawned a life time of studies in the differences between cartoon and real life physics.

  • @Thatslifekid - Rugby is perhaps the most insane sport ever played! I'm still seeing stars 30 years afterwards...

  • one day i was shooting at some food, with my fireballs, when up from the ground came some bubbling crude - black gold, texas tea.  well the first thing you know claire redfield said 'you gotta move away from here' - winning someone's heart is the place you ought to be, so we loaded up the truck and moved to beverly - hills that is - swimming pools and i was useful...

    my worst injury - well one time, at band camp...
    i never went to band camp...
    but i have had kidney stones...  and those suckers hurt like nobody's business...
    and i did rip open three fingers on a table saw...  that hurt like hell...  luckily it was just flesh...  so all good...

    pretty morbid there gogb...  but i guess if i had to listen to walker, romney and santorum 24/7 i'd be looking for some relief too...

  • The Crimson Viper and I were partners trying to save the future and the past. My weapon was my hookblade, which is a blade with a hook and a hook with a blade, so it was be perfect for fishing, especially for whales. One day, CV and I were out fishing with the hook blade. Her weapon was the rope so we were able to combine them easily. I tripped over the end of the rope and stumbled into her, driving the hookblade through the skull. In anguish, I sobbed, and confessed, "You were my Luigi." Because even though her name was "Crimson" viper, she always wore green overalls.

    Man, those were the days. ::wipes eyes::

    Worst injury is a tie between when I put my right arm through a window and when I put my left arm through a window. The left I just got some funky bandages and a scar on my wrist, and the right arm got me 16 stitches. Both hurt like hell and bled like crazy.

  • A) Weapon - Nothing; Partner - Pikachu; Conflict - Beating up unfaithful husbands; Line - Wake up.

    B) Cranial surgeries - 3 - the soft spot in my infantile head closed too soon.

  • @Aloysius_son - what position did you play?

  • @Thatslifekid - Winger

  • @Aloysius_son - That was my second home. weak side. 

  • @Thatslifekid - I scored many times on the fly stealing a pitch on defense. WIth everybody running the opposite way, I usually had a pretty good head of steam when I'd grab the ball and a lot of open field.

  • @Aloysius_son - I'd score doing the most b.s. you could ever think up. I was also hoisted for throw-ins. we had some tall girls on our team so I could usually win the ball

  • @Thatslifekid - Geez. I was never hoisted, but I did get hobbled and clobbered quite a bit!

  • @Aloysius_son - I loved flying. It was so much fun. so was scrumming. I was a little tyrant, I could mow down girls with a weight and height advantage like they were my size. I just hated not being able to really touch the ground in the scrum, my props were usually 5'7" at least and little me at 5'2" 

  • A.  My weapon:  The hookblade.  B.  My partner:  Shepard   (I have no idea who that is..I don't play video games)  C.  The conflict:  Being stuck in Hell  4. My line when my partner dies:  You were useful.

    B. Worst injury:  Car accident in high school.  35 stitches in my forehead.

  • a) 

    1-semi-auto shotgun2-Jen-kazema3-being stuck in a dream4-The price of freedom is steep, my friend.

  • I refused to answer any of the question... too lazy  !

  • Well, I decided to answer question B after all.

    I badly hurt my pride once. 

  • God I don't think I can choose what injury I've had that's been the worst.  Everyone of them at the time feels like your going to die.  I've had food poisoning, fallen off a skyjack and broke my leg, the spider bite this year about done me in with the allergic reaction.  I should have been wrapped in bubble wrap as a child permanently.  Just today I managed to hit my foot on the bed post and have my toe nail fall off.  I'm seriously screwed up with the accidents.

  • The worst injury I've suffered would probably be my framing accident. I hit my funny-bone on the corner of some glass, passed out from the pain and got three stitches in my elbow and perhaps a minor concussion (in my head, of course, not my elbow). My elbow still hurts me sometimes, and that was months ago that it happened.

  • and now I dread turning 25.

  • @Cestovatelka - you know those change so you can make multiple stories
    Well your injury made me remember another, thanks.

    @crazy2love - YES THEY CHANGE!  IT'S MAGIC!

    @StrawberrySunrises -I think the most painful injury I ever had, I didn't include and that was when I was a freshman in high school, we were playing basketball in phy. ed. and I didn't go back on defense and they got a rebound and passed to me and I went up for a dunk but didn't quite hit it and I landed on the side of my ankle and I could barely walk and did all I could to hold back tears.

    @hesacontradiction - man, I didn't want to include those injuries.

    @Rob_of_the_Sky - I ripped off a nail once and another time I stepped on a nail in a board and it went through my foot.  It really didn't hurt.  Oops I forgot to do haikus.

    @Thatslifekid - oh man, that is intense but you won

    @wyckdstorm - yeah I pretty much hate horses after living on a horse farm and if I had your injuries I would never be able to not have murderous thoughts of horses.  I was bit and stomped but the worst was my own fault but I blame the horses because I had to feed them.  I slipped while throwing them some hay and landed on the electric fence

    @ANVRSADDAY - all you do is click where it says "my weapon" and so on and then drag it onto the colored square to reveal words.

    @Peridot21 - I have another one like that involving Futurama but I don't know if there's many Futurama fans around Xanga.  You have a cool story.  You could be like Macauly Culkin in Pagemaster.  Didn't at one point he throw books at bad guys?  In other news, I saw Pagemaster.

    @raspberryjade - nice story, Dante Sparda is from a game series called Devil May Cry, I only know that because a guy at my frat house had that game and he played it nonstop for months.  I think he even skipped class because of that game.
    well that's good for you and I think I did a slight pull to my hamstring.  If I sit for a while it hurts and then when I get up it is so painful and feels like my hip is trying to come out of socket.

    @Xbeautifully_broken_downX - fun story, oh man, a compound fracture like that, yikes, I have only seen one of those before when coaching football and I am so glad nothing like that has ever happened to me.  I think the worst thing I ever saw was a kid who got a cleat under his lip somehow and it tore the skin under the lip and made a hole so you could see his teeth when his mouth was shut.  I was the one to treat him and I am normally squeamish at the sight of blood but I guess when it's in the heat of the moment I'm good or if it's not my blood.

    @Aloysius_son - awesome story and thanks for going above the call of duty.  I've had a few bike injuries that I didn't share.  I still remember when we discovered a hill of dirt behind the Catholic church in town that we used for a bike jump...so many memories and so many pains.

    @xplorrn - AWESOME!  You went above and beyond the call of duty.  You had an awesome story.  Oh man, kidney stones.  I fear getting them because of the whole Wisconsin cheese thing and also my dad's history with kidney failure as well as my own problems.  Yeah, I guess it was a bit morbid but then so is life.

    @leaflesstree - AWESOME!  You went above and beyond the call of duty.  Why did you put your arm through a window?  I had a friend in college get drunk on spring break and fall through a window.  She ended up needing hundreds of stitches and I don't think she'll ever live that down in our church circles.  Oh and when I cut my finger it bled so bad.  I couldn't believe a finger could spew that much blood.  I called my mom all the way in Wisconsin asking what I should do.  I was delirious.

    @Garistotle - Pikachu is always useful, oh man, I don't think I've ever had surgery that important.

    @musicmom60 - I can't remember the most stitches I've had in a single setting but I've probably had upwards of 100 over the course of my life but 35 at a single time...dang.
    Nice story.

    @nov_way - Nice story!

  • @RestlessButterfly - well thank you for participating.

    @LadyofWaters - yeah I forgot my spider bite but I'll agree with you that that injury is pretty bad.

    @randaness - oh man, those funny bone injuries are the worst.  A few of the injuries I've incurred I can still feel all these years later.  It's sort of weird.

    @spinner_mom - oh my goodness, that's intense.  How did the car start on fire?  I am glad it wasn't worse.  You could probably finish the series in a week or two.  It's not a challenging read but it keeps you drawn in. 

    @Thatslifekid - I didn't even include all the pains I now have from arthritis from all the years of football, baseball, and wrestling.

  • Weapon: Buster Sword

    Partner: Bayonetta

    Conflict: Being stuck in hell 
    My line: I will go out there and give them hell, commander.

  • @xdeelynnx - very cool

  • I couldn't get the video game thing to work, but I have a good injury story.

    When I was expecting Trent, at two months before my due date, I had a placental abruption. Not a single doctor who looked after me while I was in the hospital could pinpoint what caused it, but at some point in the hours before I ended up in the hospital my placenta peeled away from my uterus in one spot, just a little bit. It sent me into premature labor. After a few hours in the hospital I was stable so they sent me home, where I stayed for less than two hours. I got up to go to the bathroom and nearly keeled over from the pain and left a blood trail on the floor between the bedroom and bathroom. I had to stay in the hospital (mostly zoned out on mag sulfate, some of the most evil shit ever dreamed to life by man) until the baby was born, which took about two weeks. I went into labor three times and the staff got it stopped, but on the fourth time the doctor figured Trent and I had been through enough and let my labor progress. He was born six weeks early and at four pounds was the largest baby in the NICU.

    I don't know if a placental abruption counts as an injury since no one knows for sure how it happened, but I can tell you it was the most intense pain I have ever experienced in my life.

    Reading yours I have to say; I admire your badass pain threshold. It must be truly amazing. Do you still have any cartilage left?  

  • @xdeelynnx - Isn't it amazing how much Bayonetta looks like Tina Fey?  

  • @ZombieMom_Speaks - all you do is click on the words like "My weapon" and then drag it to the colored square to reveal your "answer".
    Oh wow, that is something else.  I don't think any injury of mine compares to that.  BUt I pretty much don't have any cartilage left.  Waking up in the morning everything pops and snaps.  It doesn't sound pretty.  Not so long ago I stood up to go to the bathroom and I took about ten steps and my knee seized up and bent backwards and popped so loudly one of my cats jumped out of her sleep.

  • @godfatherofgreenbay - Ah. It was my browser. Got it working now.

    Weapon: Submachine gun
    Partner: Claire Redfield (yay!)
    Conflict: Zombie Outbreak (yay again!)
    My line when my partner dies: *angst*

    I can honestly say I've never driven myself to the emergency room with my hand held high to avoid bleeding out. Respect. I hope your doctor has you on something to help rebuild that cartilage. You know, for your cats' peace of mind.
    And so you'll still be able to move in ten years and stuff.

  • I think everyone can learn a lesson from you.  You are dangerous!

  • @ZombieMom_Speaks - I'm trying some natural remedies and bioflex or something like that.  It just really sucks because I'm starting to think about replacement surgery.

  • @spinner_mom - hahaha...when I rolled my car my first thought was that I could probably roll it onto the tires and I'd be able to drive home.  Well the back wheels were bent.  Then I got upset because I liked that car and knew my parents would be ticked off.  I called my mom and she was more concerned about the car then me.

  • @LadyofWaters - yeah I've lived quite the life

  • @godfatherofgreenbay - I'm not generally squeamish, but it really just depends on the day. There are some days I can take it and some days I can't.

    And "ouch" on the hole through the lip thing. Yikes. 

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