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In reply to the discussion: In My Home, In the Kitchen, With a Steak Knife [View all]rsdsharp
(9,328 posts)carrier almost twenty-five years ago.
I was part of a softball, team, and we had been practicing for 2-3 hours on a Saturday afternoon. I'd had a few beers, and was pitching, when another member of the team showed up late. He hadn't been drinking, and his reflexes were definitely faster than mine at that point.
Long story short, he hit a line drive back through the box. Well, not through, exactly. It stopped when it hit me in the head -- on my left ear to be precise.
The impact was hard enough to knock me down, and the ball was spinning so fast it cut the back side of my ear lobe. A quick trip to the emergency room for a some stitches, some ice for the swelling, and I was fine; even went to an iowa Cubs game that night
A couple months later my health insurance company called. They were going to file a subrogation action against my friend for the injury, and wanted to remind me that I had an obligation under the policy to testify.
I agree that I had an obligation to testify, but not to perjure myself. I asked if they thought he'd hurt me intentionally, or had been negligent, and somehow had failed in a duty to magically guide a batted ball away from my ear (or sober me up). They elected not to sue.
BTW, what could two stitches in an emergency room in 1986 have cost? $200 maybe?