Tyson Pulsipher | Introduction

Unfortunately I was a little late to class the first day when we were supposed to write down an interesting thing about ourselves. I asked the girl next to me what we were supposed to do, and she said, “Write your name, address, email, and something interesting about yourself.” “Great,” I thought, “a ‘Get-to-know-you’ game.”

Well, I searched my dull and uneventful life for a few moments, and the most interesting fact I could come up with was this: “I have never broken a bone in my body.” Lame. There are hundreds of people who have never broken a bone! And let’s be honest here, what is cool about not breaking a bone? You can’t just jump into a conversation where everyone is talking about broken arms from climbing accidents, and broken legs from motorcycle accidents and say, “Oh yeah, well this one time, I jumped off this gnarly ramp on my bike….and, uh…landed it!”

I was hoping that only the teacher would be aware of my ‘un’interesting fact, but now the whole class will know that I am pretty darn boring!

All the same though, I do count myself pretty lucky. I have had a few “crazy” things happen to me, and have been able to emerge with only scratches or a sprained ankle. I played sports all four years in high school, and you’d think I would have something to show for it…but I don’t. I sprained my ankle once in basketball, and in football I was just a wimp. The only time I wasn’t afraid to hit was when we were practicing on the tackling dummy. Perhaps if I was a little more aggressive I would have something to “show and tell.”

Not breaking a bone is not cool, but it is less painful. After sharing with someone that I had never broken anything, I have yet to hear the response, “Man, you’re missing out! Excruciating pain is the bomb!”