As string chick approaches mom she begins yelling ” I ran into the string and I can’t breathe” Mom at once knew exactly what string chick was referring to…the string that had been wrapped around the fence posts that uncle Chancie and Pepa had put in the ground the evening before. As string chick takes her hand away from her throat mom sees that she is purple with red streaks from collar bone to chin!!!! At once, Mom completely flips out and begins yelling for Aunt B to tell Pepa and Uncle Chancie that we are going to the hospital as she basically throws string chick to the ground just in case she decides to pass out do to what mom thought was a ridiculous amount of internal bleeding. Aunt B proceeds to run out the back door and begin yelling to the men folk ” Amber is bleeding on her neck, she ran into the string!!!!” Pepa in turn starts to panic just a little – imagining what must be going on inside. As he comes through the back door he stops abruptly and looks like he can’t make up his mind as to what to do next while looking from the ground to the front of the house. At this he yells “my shoes are muddy!!” Mom tells him in not quite so nice words ‘its okay just get in here!!!’ As Pepa rounds the corner and poor little string chick is becoming increasingly terrified and asking us all if she is “going to die?” Pepa realizes string chick has nothing more than one GINORMOUS rope burn!!!!! We were all incredibly relieved and everyone except for string chick started giggling. Uncle Chancie, upon realizing everything was okay, had run back outside to check the levels on the posts and then came back inside and gave everyone the thumbs up! The mystery was solved String chick had literally clotheslined herself thus forever becoming known as string chick!!!!!
Oh yeah, and Mom’s first question to String chick when she saw her neck was “HOW BIG WAS THE STRING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”
Sadly, I did not keep my cool during this crisis. Here’s hoping I stay calm, cool and collected the next time one of my kids tries to take themselves out with two fence posts and some nylon string!!
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