posted on July 14th, 2008 by Dustin at 7:29 pm (EST) with 23 Comments
If the days of the week were people, Monday would be the biggest douchebag alive. I hate Mondays.
I had an eventful weekend, and by “eventful,” I mean that one particular event made my entire weekend lick asshole.
My Friday night began when I arrived at a friend’s house with 42 beers to play some beer pong. I drank about 20 of them throughout the night and went outside to smoke a cigarette. My friend Rachel kept trying to punch me in the balls, so I decided to step off the deck for a little personal space. Because of the severe level of my intoxicatedness, my feet failed and I rolled my ankle on the steps of the deck, fall off and stubbed my big toe directly on the ground.

The initial pain felt like I broke my ankle, but since there was no snap or breaking sound, I knew it was only a sprain. Great, I sprained my ankle. An injury fit for a 4-year-old girl, not a Spartan warrior like myself. Naturally, I got up a minute later and played it off like a tough guy.

After a few minutes of laughter and another beer, I noticed that my sandal felt wet like I stepped in a puddle. The pain in my ankle had subsided and it became more apparent that I may had done some damage to my toe when I stubbed it. I walked inside into the light and looked down to see my sandal filling up with blood and dripping over the side.
Pretend you took a big nasty glob of peanut butter and put it on the tip of your big toe. Now, pretend that peanut butter was actually a bunch of blood and guts – that’s what my toe looked like. There was a gigantic deep gouge taken out of my toe, but still attached by a thin flap of skin. I flipped the flap back over my toe and went into the bathroom to wash it off.

Since I was pretty much shitfaced at this point, I had a full medical staff of friends taking care of me. While one of my friends bandaged my toe, there was a blinding flash of light and a powerful voice spoke to me from the heavens. It said:
“Dustin, you should now come to realize how truly awesome of a man you are. Look at that mustache. Even I, God, am envious of your ultimate glory. Only a truly divine individual could have a group of people tending to them in times of such a horrific and disgusting injury brought upon by themselves. You sir, will become a legend!”

He was right. I could’ve probably asked them to pluck the stray pubes from my taint with their teeth if I wanted. I decided to milk it and see what I could get away with. I asked Steve to get me a beer.
“Fuck you, Dustin. I was sitting right here while you had that whole divine conversation with yourself. Weirdo.”
The next morning, I awoke with minimal recollection of the night. I put my foot down on the ground with a thud and felt a sharp pain shoot up my leg. When I looked down, there was a trickle of fresh pus and blood oozing out from the deep slice that ran around the tip of my toe. The tip was purple like a raging erection ready to explode.

Since I’m so tough, I decided not to get stitches, so I let it bleed for 24 hours. Now I’ve got a handsome flap of dead skin that will eventually fall off and leave my toe looking lopsided. On the bright side, I get to wear sandals at work all week. I also learned a very valuable lesson after all this:
If you’re going to get hurt, make sure you’re really drunk first because it doesn’t hurt nearly as bad.
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