Evie Day 211
Good morning, and happy Friday. Today is 13 October 2023.
It is Friday the 13th.
Last night I got a little reminder of where I’ve been.
When I was in 7th grade at Salina South Junior High, I’d get together with friends after school for this and that, and one of the things some of the guys did was go over to Salina South High School to try their hand (legs?) at the high jump pit. Mostly guys just liked laying in the pit and talking trash like any 12 or 13-year-old kid would. I was just kind of hanging out because at that point I was on the tennis team, not the track team. There was one guy in the group who could high jump and did better than anyone else, and his name was Barry. I tried it, and thought it was fun, but one day I picked up a piece of pipe they used for watering the football field, tossed it up in the air, and missed when I tried to catch it. That piece of pipe hit me hard right in the mouth, cracking two of my teeth. The next day, Mom took me to the dentist, and I ended up with a new cap on one tooth, and some smoothing and filing on the other one so I wouldn’t have a completely jacked-up smile.
Last night I was reminded of that as I was using a toothpick to remove a small piece of last night’s dinner from my teeth, and an old crack in that front tooth gave way along with a small piece of that tooth. In the back. It’s not really visible when you look at me from the front, but I can sure feel that missing chunk with my tongue. Thankfully, there’s no real pain or sensitivity to heat or cold, so it’s really a minor inconvenience.
For those of you that don’t know me that well or for that long, in 8th grade I changed schools when my parents moved out to the country. I did go out for different sports, and failed to make the basketball team, but I did go out for track and field, and I returned to the high jump pit, a different pit located at Kenwood Park where the Roosevelt-Lincoln Junior High team practiced. I wasn’t the best, but I worked my way up the ladder and eventually became competitive. Won a meet my junior year, and placed second at the league meet my senior year.
Anyway, that’s a short little story about my teeth.
I’m going to wrap this up and get focused on my day.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
