I woke up with a sore throat the other day.
“Great,” I thought. “I’m catching that cold that’s going around.”
Nope.
I figured out what had happened as soon as I tried to speak.
Being a remarkable athlete, I knew I had injured myself at a basketball game.
Except it wasn’t in the way you might think. Rather, I got ‘dinged up’ from my position in the corner of the elementary school gym, sitting in my special, brought-from-home chair.
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