The Mud Clod incident

One hot boring summer day in Benton, Louisiana my brothers & a few of our friends were all in the field behind our house. Well you can't see the field too well there, but that's where is. My dad still lives in that house if you really want to go bug him...warning he keeps guns and knows how to use them.

So we're in the field and we were bored so we get the very crazy idea that we should dig ourselves a fort underground. The idea was we would dig two holes and then start digging toward each other and eventually we would have our very own underground fort! So we all ran home and got every digging device we could find and came back, plotted out our fort and began digging. after about 3 days we had one hole that was maybe a foot & a half deep and the other hole that was close to 4 feet deep (the better diggers all were in the same hole!) But we got borded doing that and then decided that we should have a mud clod war!

Well first let me say that Louisiana doesn't really have mud...it has clay! And lots of it. So all the dirt/clay that we had been digging from our holes had been laying around getting hard and we were going to be tossing that at each other. (yeah, we were stupid! We thought that we could dig ourselves a fort.)

So we each gather up some ammo and get down in our holes (I don't remember who had what hole) and begin to throw the clods. I'm not sure how long it took for someone (me) to get hit but I was hit in the head and the clod/rock made a cut. So I headed over to my friend's house as my parents weren't home. And their mom looked at my head and cleaned me up. She thought that my cut needed some stitches, but since I wasn't her kid, she couldn't take me in for them. And since I didn't want a spanking when my dad came home, I didn't bother to tell my parents about it. So no stitches for me.

I think it must have healed up pretty well as I don't have any problems with lack of hair where I was hit. And that, my friends is the Mud Clod Incident.