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Hi, Mrs. Smith.
Date Added: February 25th, 2008
It was spring and that means Track Season. I loved watching my teenage son participate. I left work and needed to hurry. It was cool out so I donned my trench coat with it’s extreme front pockets astride the buttons. I warmed my hands in the pockets as I cut across the end of the football field. At the end of the long jump pit I tripped and fell flat on my face. At that same exact moment a friend of my son’s was practicing the long jump and landed in the pit next to me. We looked each other eye to eye as he nonchalantly said, ” Hi, Mrs. Smith.” All I could say was, “Nice jump”. I tried to get up but the weight of my body was on my hands, which were still in the pockets of the coat. I rolled back and forth like a beached whale in order to release my hands from the coat and to release myself from this Chicken Pucker moment!-Patsy, Pennsylvania