Funny, True Stories in One Sentence

This l'il section here now lives on as its own site: onesentence.org. Go there and read more tiny l'il stories.

When I wrote this blog entry, I was half-joking and half-hoping-that-people-would-do it. After a day, it appeared that would it fizzle, but a few people responded, and that was all the convincing I needed. Here's an ongoing compilation of your one sentence stories (e-mail me if you're missing).

Me
One time as a child, I was playing Marco Polo in my backyard and walked into a tree.

Stacey (my sister)
I tend to remember a time when I was DRAGGED into a tree in our backyard.

corey @ egoinc
when i was 14 i totalled the family riding mower.

Alex @ Bad With Names
One summer vacation, I walked down the pier at Lake Geneva and accidentally fell into the water.

vix
One time, when I was four, I stood between the electronic doors at the supermarket waving goodbye to all the departing shoppers when suddenly one of the doors closed on my wrist.

Rob C.
One time my older brother put his coat in the oven to try to dry it off, but it kinda caught on fire.

Melissa Lyttle
life was so much simpler when i could go peeling through the neighborhood on my bmx bike, topless, with all the boys and not feel an ounce of embarassment, then puberty came and messed everything up.

Mike @ Poofle
I broke my shoulder in kindergarten because my friend convinced me that the lawn chairs 4 feet down from the tree house would be ample cushion for me land on.

Mike @ Poofle (entry #2)
I passed out while peeing in the dorm room bathroom, and woke up later with my head under a stall door, still unzipped with no idea how long I was there.

Patrick @ The D Train
I didn't wimp out on a pact that Matt and I made to jump off a bridge the night before our high school graduation, and I survived a 35 foot jump into three feet of water with no scratches and one seriously sore coccyx.

stephen
this one time at my best mates wedding i got drunk and broke lex's butt.

ryder
when I was five I wanted to climb the wall like Spider-Man, but gashed my big toe on a screw in the wall and bled alot, thinking "I bet this never happened to Spidey".

Angela
When my daughter was a baby I changed her dirty diaper in the car and then went into a home improvement store and while I was standing at the cutomer service desk I looked down I had a little ball of poop stuck on the front of my jeans.

Lori Orson
One Saturday morning when I was three I decided I wanted Jiffy-Pop, but I couldn't read so I didn't take the paper top off and almost set the kitchen on fire while my siblings watched cartoons and my parents slept in.