Childhood Lesson

Never use a screw driver in the upright position to make a whole in a box for your playhouse.
If you have ever noticed the cut in my left eyebrow, you know probably understand what happened. I was about 5 or 6 when it happened. My sister, Cynthia Turner, and her little sister Rachel were all trying to make a playhouse in our garage right after we had moved. We had tons of boxes and had just watched Out of the Box and decided we wanted our own play house. We were going to pile up the boxes and poke holes in them so we could have umbrellas poking out of the top. We tried to use the bottoms of the umbrellas to poke the holes, but it wasn't working very well. My sister had the great idea to use a screw driver to poke the holes. So the caring seven year old she was, she gave her five year old little sister a screw driver to poke a hole. I attempted to poke the whole in a downwards motion through the box. When it wouldn't work, me in my five year old little mind told myself that I could just try to poke it upward through the opposite side of the box. After thrusting the weapon into the box 3 or 4 times, it finally came all the way through. Since I was leaned over the box to see when the sharped edged object would come through, it went straight up into my eyebrow. Panic struck and I flipped out! I was, of course, bleeding and thought I was going to die. My dad came to my rescue and patched me up. Luckily, I didn't 1) lose my eye and 2) have to have stitches. I got really lucky and I learned never to poke an object upward towards your face!