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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

#998 Getting grass stains

Well it all starts at my friend Matthew's birthday party. He was turning 17. It was a family and close friends party so not that crazy of a party. We had dinner and were just hanging out which got boring. So we decided to go to the nearby playground to play grounders with a few of his cousins and siblings. We played grounders and this also got boring very quickly because no one was really trying and there was also a lot of cheating, so the game quickly ended. Shortly after Matthew and I found one of those plastic kid wagons. Two teenage boys just couldn't leave it there without playing around with it first. There was a nearby switchback pathway next to a hill where kids go sledding in the winter. We started by sitting in the back of the wagon and going down the pathway. Seeing who could go down the fastest, like luge. We kept getting around the same times. So it became less and less fun every time we did it. Than I came up with the idea we should go down the sledding hill. It seemed like a fun idea so we went for it. We started with the smallest part of the hill to see how dangerous it was. It was a blast! The wagon would go a lot faster than the times we went down the pathway. Slowly, each time we went down the hill we would go a little bit steeper and higher on the hill. Finally, I took it to the highest part of the hill. The only problem was that there was a fence right next to the bottom of the hill where I would end up, and the wagon didn't have a very good turn radius on the grassy hill. I still went for it because it looked like fun. I took a seat in the wagon and gave it a little push and it started to go down. It was like riding a roller-coaster but with no safety. As I went down the hill, the wagon slowly started to go towards the fence until I was heading right for it. When I tried to turn it, the wheel didn't get any grip on the grass; the whole wagon slipped from underneath me. The next thing I knew, was that I was sliding down the hill.  By the time I stopped I had cut my leg and was covered with grass stains.