Ouch!!

I went to a DC United game yesterday with Mr. B and his girl, the roommate and her friend. Before everyone else showed up, the roommate and I were hanging out in our seats before the game & they started kicking balls into the stands for the fans. I stood up and waved my hands - and that apparently is the signal for punt an overly filled soccer ball from 50 feet away directly into my face, please. For that is exactly what happened. I'm not trained in catching things that are flying towards me that fast - so I stretched my arms out in front of me as if i was catching a soft fly ball in right field. That didn't work. The soccer ball hit me square in the face and damn near knocked me out.

As I was trying to gather my senses, some guy in front of me picked up the ball from my feet and started waving it around as if it was his! Everyone protested, as I clearly deserved at least a ball for the swollen lip and (what i now think is a) slightly broken nose. He agreed to thumb wrestle me for it and proceeded to be way too competitive about it, so I just told him he could have the stupid thing.

It was kind of a funny situation. Until I realized the next day that I had really done some kind of damage to my nose. It's super sore, and there appears to be some sort of free floating bone particle in there.

That's the last time I signal for someone to forcefully punt a ball at my face.