[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: First Date (WAS What's Love Got To Do With It?)

[Shaun Hately]

On 4 Oct 2003 at 0:23, msbeadsley wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" 
> <drednort at a...> wrote:
> 
> > I spent my first date covered up to my armpits in blood, at a place 
> > I *really* shouldn't have been (so was facing serious death when my 
> > school (and my date's school) found out!), having lost my glasses, 
> > so I was nearly blind, and with nobody around except the 
> > unconscious.
> 
> You really cannot just stop there, you know.

Well, I've now posted it but I realised I didn't explain what happened to my  
glasses - I was wearing my best non-school-uniform clothing which included my 
ultra-cool black leather jacket (well, it seemed ultra-cool when I was 16 - very 
fashion deprived, but I had a vague idea that a leather jacket was supposed to be 
cool. My eyesight at that stage was *just* at the point that made wearing glasses 
all the time a good idea - and my glasses were something that marked me as a 
geek so I'd taken them off on the train, trying to look less like a geek - so they 
were in my jacket pocket.

When I got to the crash, I took my jacket off becase I didn't want to damage it - it 
was the most expensive item of clothing I owned. In fact, it was the only item of 
clothing I had ever purchased myself so it was the only item I actually knew the 
value of (-8. I just put it on the ground - once I got in the car I realised just how 
poor my eyesight was, but I didn't really have time to get out, locate my jacket, 
find the glasses...

Results of this - one, as soon as I could, I did a far more detailed first aid course 
(and I still remain current at Level 3 - it's a very handy thing to know) and I *never* 
took my glasses off without really good reason again.


Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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