At a party last summer, some friends of ours have one of those shitty little above-ground pools. At the last minute, just before we were going to go home, my daughter decides to jump in for one last dip. I dove in, intending it to be a shallow surface dive. Instead, I smashed into the bottom of the pool with my head, nearly passing out from the shock and pain. I surfaced and everyone knew what I had done. I played it off like I wasn’t hurt though, (fuck, I could hardly BREATHE!) told everyone goodbye, and we went home. I ended up going to the emergency room later that night and finding out that I had fractured my first cervical vertabrae. It healed just fine. No more diving for me.