I'm wearing a special fabric sandal and a heavy hockey sock.

ouch!

I trudged around with a Joe Namath style Lenox-Hill knee brace for 6 months back when I was in college. I was messing around on a trampoline and landed on the pad with the edge of my foot instead of the flat bottom. My knee snapped, my leg bent back forcing my heel to my butt and stayed there. I was still in the air at the time so when I came back down on the mat I only had one foot to land on. It was not a fun day. I had major knee reconstruction, was in a toe to hip cast for 12 weeks and then the brace for an additional 6 months. This started in August so by the time the heavy snows of the Vt winter hit I was able to put a boot on below the brace.

gee Joe, thanks for trip down memory lane!

What did he do to himself?

I had foot surgery a few years ago and had to wear this funky sandal with a wild wedge that tilted my heavily bandaged sweatsock-covered foot so that my toes were up higher than my heel. Nothing like being on a crowded subway train terrified that at any time, someone's gonna step on your exposed toes. That'll wake you up in the morning. A month later, I moved into the regular funky after-surgery sandal and wore that for a few weeks until my mother became ill and a week and a half sooner than my doctor wanted, I had to stuff my foot into a sneaker and go to her. My healing time was over.

Every woman who has acquired a new baby spends about a year balancing the baby on one hip and learning how to manage most chores with only the dominant hand.

sandals and socks...are they black socks? Is he from Jersey?

Saw them last night at dinner. Not Jersey, Lon Guyland.

Thanks everyone.

JN

I remember back in '37 when I walked a little too close to a hay baler and scraped my finger. I started bleeding and was forced to wear a band-aid for the better part of three hours.

scraped a what??

A finger.

Hey, Joe, I was just over at the scrabble site watching your game. Very exciting.

Did you see Occambill play me? He played EQUAL then EQUALIZER then EQUALIZERS whilst I sat there transfixed

Occom Bill is the luckiest bastard on the planet.

I suppose you were sitting there with a shitload of vowels.