Everyone who knows our eldest son, Ben, even a little, will know that he is gifted in many areas, but one area where he is not incredibly gifted is in the performance of physical activities requiring any physical coordination. I'm afraid he received his physical coordination from me.
As a child, Ben could fall down standing in the middle of a room, with no reason apparent. We attended YEARS of weekly road races where he fell, week-after-week, year-after-year. He actually has a gift for doing things normal people can't do, like dropping a glass from a refrigerator just right to break a toe (his own toe, of course!) But his own hurt is not the only outcome of his spectacular feats. He once tossed a rock over his head, not realizing that Tim had stopped farther behind to tie his shoe. Ben beaned Tim on the top of the head by accident: a feat he could not have accomplished if he had been trying! As a matter of fact, every childhood injury Tim received growing up had something to do with his big brother.
Well, yesterday, Ben was walking down a flight of stairs outside the Student Union Building at Indiana University. He somehow slipped and did a several stage roll down the flight of steps. It must have been spectacular because a woman coming behind him rushed to his aid, saying, "You had better sit down! That looked *really* painful!) She proceeded to get ice for him, and he limped to the bus station and got himself home. When I spoke to him last night, he didn't think he had broken anything, but he had kept one ankle iced and elevated all day.
Poor Ben! Please remember him in your prayers!
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Ah, poor Ben. I have to say that your description of Ben was dead-on for my 4th son Nathaniel who we used to call Jerry Lewis as a child since he always came down the stairs looking like a scene from a physical comedy movie, arms flailing, feet not touching solid ground.
Nathaniel was the one who dropped the pizza upside down walking in the door and was never again trusted to carry food again. He also ran into the garage and the neighbors asked if a tornado had hit our home: Yes, the human tornado, Nathaniel :)
I always thought he was going to be very tall and just hadn't grown into his feet but he hasn't turned out to be so tall after all.
He is at college on a baseball scholarship but he called me yesterday to ask the procedure for getting an MRI. He may have injured himself in the weight room :)
Anyway, I enjoyed your description of Ben even while I commiserate with his pain.
Aww, Cindy-= I'll be praying it's nothing serious with Nathaniel!
Every family needs one of these, don't you think? ;-)
ROTFLOL! I am very sorry for Ben and do sincerely hope he recovers quickly. But your description of his childhood feats has really made my day!
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