Ok, so not today but a little over a week ago my Son, Wife, and I were playing a game. On the weekends when we order coffee we usually take the stickers off the tops (from them being delivered) and chase each other around the house, trying to sticker each other on the back. It’s fun, it’s cute, and a semi-tradition at this point.
My wife had me cornered in the living room, sticker on hand, ready for the strike. Her grin showed she didn’t think I could escape my fate. In a panic, fearing the humiliation of a sticker being stuck on me, I saw my only chance to get away and I took it.
I jumped over the couch.
At about the peak of the jump I felt my right foot clip the top of the cushions. I fell like a bag of wet cement. Although I did *technically clear the couch, I still hit the ground hard and felt my kneecap slip and slide around and an electric shock of pain through my leg.
As I yelled out in pain, a crumpled mess on the floor. my Wife, my love, my joy, casually walked up to me, put the sticker on my back then asked if I needed a ride to ER.
I did lol.
And that is how I tore my ACL playing a silly game and taking it a little too far.
Silver lining, my son stopped jumping and climbing all over the couch.
The offending sticker is now on my crutches as a lil memento, a reminder to check myself prior to wrecking myself.
TL;DR I tore my ACL jumping over a couch while playing with my family.
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Oh my goodness, that’s quite the injury, I can practically picture the whole scene playing out, and honestly, it’s a key to how much fun family games can be, even if they end with a trip to the ER, you know, I’d probably attempt a similar jump if I wasn’t terrified of ending up like you, but what do you think will be the most valuable lesson learned from this whole experience?
Get better quick so she can sticker you again!
I sent this to my spouse because it sounds like something we would absolutely do -right down to the sticker after the fall and the ask about the ER- and we’re both weirdly competitive yet accident prone.
Thank you for your service as a cautionary tale 🫡
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt! You’re lucky you didn’t also put your eye out 😁😊
You sound like a fun family that loves one another and your son is a lucky kid. Keep laughing and goofing around (safely!) and have a speedy recovery 😊
Heal fast!
I’m so sorry you got hurt, OP but this is just darn right adorable. Be careful in the future but never stop playing. Love that you ALL have the inner child out and proud and running around!
Awesome wife. She could see you weren’t dead or oozing vital fluids, so she finished the game – Knowing that doing so would cause you even more grief!
I needed knee surgery in my 30s to repair an avulsion fracture, where my patellar tendon ripped off of my knee cap.
I needed that surgery because I turned funny, my knee cap dislocated, and having all of my body weight on that leg did the rest.
I turned funny because the strap of the car seat I was installing tickled my leg, and I thought it was a spider.
Good luck OP, do ALL of the rehab that your PT recommends, including the homework. I’m training to run my first marathon nearly 10 years after my injury and I’m faster than ever, though I was never really a runner before my injury.
I love the idea of this game (minus the injuries lol hope you heal up fast!) And think your family sounds adorable.
Years ago my mom and I would prank each other by putting the neon thank you stickers from the grocery store each other’s coats to see how long before the other noticed. One day I was taking the bus home from work and it was a driver I saw all the time. He gave me a funny look when I got on but didn’t say anything.
It was a weekend and on weekends the buses in my city have really long weird routes. My route home went past a grocery store and did a huge 20 minute loop before passing back so I got off to do fast groceries. When I got back on the bus is finally when the driver said “did you know you have a thank you sticker stuck to your collar?”
I had been on the morning bus, at work, and in the grocery store with it. That was the longest run of a sticker. Well played mom lol
I like to take the stickers from bananas / tomatoes / etc. and ‘bless’ my children with them, like a priest on Ash Wednesday.
You’re going to be MUCH easier to catch for the foreseeable future. By the time you’re healed up, you’ll be covered in stickers.
Speedy recovery OP!
If nothing else, you have another story for the family collection. Sounds like you have a good wife.
Sorry about your knee, but I love that for you and your family. Keep having fun!
She savagely followed through with the win. She’s a keeper.
Thank you for this fantastic story, I really enjoyed it.
This story is going to stick around in your family.
this…this is the kind of story i LOVE seeing here.
Insult to injury
Getting old sucks, but damn you’re doing it right
Poor kid
Just to be clear..You absolutely did NOT clear the couch by any definition lol.