what is your best scar story?
Here's an interesting fact about me: I don't have any scars. I've always been kinda bummed about it, cause it makes me sound like I've spent my life inside a glass bubble. On the contrary, I've broken my leg and my arm, sprained my ankle badly enough to get a golf cart to drive around campus (rock climbing), twisted my elbow (backpacking), and dislocated my right shoulder twice (inner-tubing). Those all probably left internal scars...and I'm pretty sure my shoulder is still messed up, because the last time I dislocated it, I was putting on my coat. Pathetic.
But back to scars. I guess the weirdest "scar" I got was a bruise that lasted for almost a year and a half in high school: I was playing soccer in Slovakia with a bunch of hardcore Slovakian kids, and got kicked so hard in the shins (no shin guards) that I almost fainted. But the bruise is gone now...
An interesting side-note: we were talking about scars in my Steinbeck seminar the other day. Charles in East of Eden has a scar on his forehead from a crowbar -- a gnarly black mark from his hairline to his eyebrow. Apparently the literary significance of a forehead scar implies a fierce inner battle: think Ethan Fromm -- and Harry Potter of course.
Anyway, what about your best scar story?
When I was about ten or so, my sister and I were having an intense tickle fight, and she bit me on the arm. Hard. It created a crescent-shaped scar on my forearm that, if you look closely, you can still see today.
ReplyDeleteNot the best scar story ever, but definitely the most random one I have!
Oh come now kirsten-
ReplyDeletedidn't i accidenlty give you a scar one time in seventh grade choir when we were playing "down by the bay"?
wow, i actually still feel bad about that one- I'm sorry!
@Ashley: ouch... that's one intense tickle fight.
ReplyDelete@Tina: haha I forgot about that. good times. my eye has never been the same...
haha i still have a scar in the middle of my lip from biting it while trying to do a flip on my friend's trampoline 6 years ago. You have to look close to see it, but it's definitely there!
ReplyDelete~Stephanie