Nicolay Sanchez

The worst injury I´d ever had happened when I was seventeen years old. There was a common morning of July when I was with my two cousins: Diego and Adrian. Both of them are like my brothers, we have spent all our life together and we have played since we were five years old. We were used to make jokes to our family members and a lot of antics, for the ones that we were always punished. This time we didn´t have anything to do, so we went for a walk. Suddenly, we found an abandoned car of vegetables, like the ones that the people use in supermarkets. It was like a bicycle in the back, with a huge wagon in front; it had four wheels and a little seat for the conductor. We started to play with it, one of us was in the conductor seat, and the other two searched for a place in the wagon (which was for vegetables, not for people!). Finally we decided to drive it to my uncle´s house. It didn´t seem too difficult to drive, so we took places to be the pilot of it. At the beginning we didn´t have much problem, we only followed the road to the end of it. Then, Diego took the control of the car; everything was going well, until we had to go down a street. It´s important to considerate that the car didn´t have breakers! At the beginning, it was fun, but then we got scared, when it was cleared that Diego lost the control of it and we were falling down and in the wrong way. We didn´t know how to stop it, and we didn´t solve the problem: we just crushed against the wall.

We were a bit shocked because of the accident. When we got up we realized that each one of us had a different injury. Diego, who went on the seat, fell down and injured his head. He had a headache for two days. Adrian broke his ankle and was shouting because of the pain. We had to help him to go back to the house. And I cut my waist with the bars of the car. I was protected by my clothes, so the wound wasn´t very big. But I have a scar until now. This was a very crazy adventure that we will never forget. We learned not to take the vegetables cars that we find in our way!