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cinematicnomad · 1 year

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#a turtle bit my toe

u okay?

lol 😅 i see you saw my answer in the tags of that poll yesterday

when i was, like, 3 or 4? my family was living in monterrey, mexico. and one afternoon after i'd had a playdate at a friends house my mom picked me up and apparently i sat in the backseat and kept saying "turtle! toe! turtle! toe!" and my mom was like "uh huh, yes katherine, turtle's DO have toes, good job" and promptly forgot about it once we got home

but then later that evening my mom got a phone call and it was the little boy's mom who was SUPER anxious and said she wanted to apologize and check in on how i was doing.

to which my mom was like "....what?"

which is how this lady had to explain to my mom that her son and i had been playing in the backyard barefoot and got too close to a wild snapping turtle that bit my big toe and REFUSED TO LET GO. it took a bunch of adults to get the turtle to release my appendage and they gave me a bandage and put my socks and shoes back and the housekeeper/babysitter/whoever that was looking after us just...forgot to mention it to my mom when she picked me up lol.

since i was so little and no one can corroborate the story of how it happened, i'm not sure if my memory of the incident is that accurate—but from what i remember, the boy and i went over to the hose to rinse off our feet since they were covered in mud and each took turns standing on what we THOUGHT was a rock...only to discover it was a turtle when the things head popped out of the shell and reared back to bite me. meaning my answer to that poll would probably be: "yes and it was my fault"

it's a fun story to tell but the answer is, yes, i'm perfectly a-okay 😅

#ask #anticupid16 #i actually forgot about this story when i selected my answer for the poll #and only remembered the turtle biting story as i was writing the tags #so what i was ORIGINALLY going to say #was that when we were kids and visiting my grandmother one summer #my brother went over to play with the neighbors kids and was petting their family dog #and his face was all up in that dogs face #who had always been v gentle and kind #but on that day the dog just...freaked out and lunged forward and bit my brother in the face #and he was v lucky that he wasn't a little bit shorter or taller bc that dog bit juuuuust right to hit AROUND his eye #he had to get a couple stitches #(several years later he got hit in the face by a surfboard RIGHT beneath his eye and had to get more stitches! by the same doctor!)#(both times during summers we were visiting my grandmother. he's v lucky to have 2 working eyes lol)

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