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Maddie
July 2005 Asheville, NC
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Last Wednesday evening I made the horrible mistake of taking a shower. Somewhere after the washing of the still-too-short hair and the final rinse-off, it happened. Standing still, knees bent slightly, facing forward -- WHACK!!!

A simple falling down in a wet shower, cracking my skull open and having to deal with the hoards of zombies that would, undoubtedly, start appearing on our doorstep due to the charming aroma such an event would cause would have been mere child's play. A baseball bat being swung into the shower cracking my ribcage into splinters? I wish...

No, this WHACK was the sound of two of my vertibrea attempting to make sudden contact with each other twarted only by that pesky nerve that runs in between them getting in the way.

At least, if there were any justice in this world, such a life-altering event would be accompanied by a similarly massive sound effect to give the events that were going to, ineveitably, follow for days and days their proper perspective and due. As well, the soundtrack to the entire shower would have been accompanied by that ominous, shark-in-the-water music that always preceeds such bone-crushing scenes.

In reality, there was nothing but the sound of the shower and me feeling my back seize up as my pinched nerve slammed all of it's bags down on the floor of my spine and, looking around, said, "You know, things haven't changed around here much in 15 years! It's good to be back for a visit!"

( Of course it's long. Click on through to the other side if you're up for it... )

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