The Slide

By Max

It started when we were building our new home in Park City, Utah. I was about five at the time and I was quite mischievous. Our house was pretty much done except for a few minor plumbing problems….our front hallway was a giant puddle getting bigger by the minute. What had happened was that a pipe in the ceiling had frozen and burst, so it was dripping and dripping until somebody finally turned off the water. My mom called the contractor that was finishing our house at the time. He came over and started fixing the pipe at once.

Now since the pipe had burst from freezing other things were cold too. For instance there were icicles growing in the linen closet. My mom and I were sawing them down with a hacksaw when we came up with the same idea at once. I took a big icicle down and ran downstairs at once. I stopped where the contractor was standing and tried to slip the icicle down his pants. Somehow he noticed and grabbed the icicle from me. I started running and screaming, "Agggh". My sprint ended when I stepped into the puddle. I started sliding straight towards the sofa. Guess what… I hit it. I stood up and felt surprisingly good.

I was standing there feeling fine but when the contractor saw me he gasped and went and got my mom. She came down the stairs and said, "What’s wrong?".

The contractor said, "Well, Max was trying to put an icicle down my pants so I grabbed it from him and he ran away; you can probably guess the rest".

Right then my mom rushed me into the bathroom, and then I saw what happened in the mirror. I had a big bleeding gash on my forehead. Right then it started to hurt. So we drove down to the local clinic and the doctors saw me immediately. They took me into a room and started at once. The nurse gave me a shot with some anesthetic and started sewing it up at once. The doctor took a needle and stuck it into my forehead. It hurt a lot. After he was done I had a pink line with 15 little black stitches in it.

Now to this day I have a little scar mixed in with my eyebrow and I learned to never run in a big puddle of water.