Straw Dinosaur
Not a physical injury, but ...

When I was a kid I used to be into making models - Airfix planes, boats, that sort of shite. But for one especially gay birthday my parents brought me a 'straw model kit'... It consisted of loads of paper straws and an instruction booklet with diagrams of how to 'weave' the straws into various models. Confident of my straw weaving skills I decided to go straight to the very last, and hardest to make model ... A bloody great Dinosaur. To make that beast required pretty much the entire pack of straws but I was sure I could do it.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and my Dinosaur is almost complete. I think all I had to weave was a couple of legs before that badboy was finished. Then, my brother, two years older than me, decides to start a fight ... It was our usual kind of fight, I tried to roundhouse him - failed and fell over instead. Then he pinned me down, grabbed the nearest thing and started hitting me over the head with it. What was it? My Dinosaur ... Now a shredded lump of paper straws ...

Serves me right ... Should've stuck with the straw flower vase.
(Paolo, Sat 20 Aug 2005, 14:16, Reply)