Friday, the vice principal and I spent the day preparing a cookout for our Seniors. The day went very well. I think we cracked that I’m-a-Senior-and-I-hate-everyone armor. They had fun eating and we had fun doing for them them. Balance was brought to the Force. While cleaning up I offered to take the big grill to the baseball field so that the parents could cook for Friday nights game. Now, this is no little Webber hibachi grill. This is a behemoth, industrial size cooking machine.

I grabbed a handful of junior high boys to help me. The boys were great. Instead of griping, they argued about who got to help lift it. I carried one side while the boys took turns with the other. Our trip took us through the building, across the drive, and into the gates for a distance of roughly 200 yards. Somehow, someway the grill slammed into my foot. It hurt. I was just thankful that a) it was my foot and not one of the students and b) that the sharp corner didn’t rip into my foot. No one was to blame. No one was fooling around. It just happened. That was 3:45pm.

I finished cleaning up/ putting everything away, went home, took a shower and we went out to eat. I had a great bar-b-cue chicken sandwich. As we got up to leave the pain in my foot returned. I limped out to the car but the pain was bearable. We went to the bookstore to kill some time before the movie and I worked through the pain. No biggie. It was now 7:00pm.

“Fever Pitch” was really funny. Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore had a real on-screen chemistry. It was one of the factors that made me sit through the entire film as my foot swelled and the pain become almost unbearable. The Soxs won in the end and the credits rolled. 9:30pm.

The emergency room was crowded but not full. My turn to be seen came at 12:45am. After x-rays, a nap, and a half hour sitting on a gurney in the hallway I was told that I had, in fact, broke my foot.

Monday morning I see the orthopedic. 25 years go by without a broken bone and a week into my silver anniversary and I get cut down by a cooking appliance. D’oh!