1. Hurt my knee by diving quickly to get a prop out of the way
2. Hit in the jaw by an actor
Injury 1.
During the Waiter's Gallop, I run a booth on my winch on and off stage many times. Inside the booth is Horace and Ernastina at a dinner table. At one point when the booth was onstage, Ernastina dropped her compact. It rolled offstage and right into my winch track. I was the only one to see this and the cue to take the booth offstage was soon. I ran to it, dived to the ground, grabbed it, and ran back to the winch buttons. I didn't realize how much force I had exerted. When I dove I stopped myself with my hands and my right knee - the bad knee. Right after I did it, my wrists were rather sore. It wasn't until a few songs later that my knee signaled pain. And bruising even later, of course.
Injury 2.
I take pins out of the dogs on the winch track after the feedstore counter rolls offstage. They are on the ground inside a set piece. At the same time I do this, there are actors standing there waiting for their entrances. As I'm squatted way down to the floor, an actor turns my direction and starts to take a step. His leg meets my left jaw. Luckily he wasn't moving with too much force so it didn't hurt too bad. He checked if I was ok and I assured him I was fine. However, the left side of my face had a funny tingle for the rest of the day.
He says he couldn't see me there at all - I am covered in black, including a hat. Guess it works! But, and he said this himself, I'm there at the same time and the same place at every performance. And we're at performance #55.
Instant Karma.
That happened on the Saturday matinee. Inbetween shows we played Ultimate Frisbee. One of the techies accidentally gave him a fat lip. She insists that it was his face that came down and met her forearm (he actually says the same thing). So I paid her the 20 bucks and -- er, I mean it was an accident. Yeah, an accident.
I'm not going to name any names...
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