So, I
forgot the article we were going over in
French, so my teacher sent me to go and get it. A friend, (who had, crucially, less
far to run) was also sent back and so I agreed to run off a photocopy of his copy when he returned with it.
This done, I sat outside to wait for a suitable duration so that it didn't look as though I'd been suspiciously quick getting my article. I even stood in the rain with my photocopy to make it look as though in my helter-skelter dash it had got wet, I bent down corners and folded it imprecisely in half. I was thorough, anyway.
You know how you can hold your breath and make your face go red and it looks just like you've been running? I did that, only just a little overenthusiastically.
Suddenly I can't see and I'm pitching forward, and all I'm aware of is the feeling of slamming the side of my head/glasses on the wall, and the subsequent acute pain this was causing to my temple and the bridge of my nose.
I found myself slumped on the floor, with a bleeding forehead and glasses severely bent some distance off, very briefly unable to recollect how long I'd been there. This was all a little scary. Mabye I'll just run and get it in future.