albatross
butlins holiday camp, ayr, scotland, around 1970
as a feisty 7-yr-old i thought i would show off to a girl by picking up a large plank. why there was a large plank lying around a holiday camp i have no idea. it's a bit heavy. drop it. fail to notice very large and rusty nail in plank which goes through my light canvas shoe and also through my foot. off to hospital then where the doc decides i need a few stitches but not that many - so a general anaesthetic isn't needed, only a local. which would have been fine, had it worked. doc applies stitches (only 3 i think), i scream loud and often, my father - only in his late 30s at the time - has to be restrained from entering the doctor's room and punching him in the head for traumatising his son. all ended happily though without anti-doc violence and healed foot ... still got the scar though ...

ps: albatross by (the original) fleetwood mac was all the rage at the time ...
pps" the girl was not impressed
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