another reason i love boys (from the justin morneau chapter since i figure you'll never read it)

The summer after graduation, Justin and some friends went camping:

" At the campsite, there were a couple of huge trees with limbs directly overhead. Scott climbed up on one of them and started acting like a monkey. I saw that and had to join him, so I climbed up the tree and did my own monkey act on the other big branch. I guess we were finally at one with nature...

"Tyler was on the ground filming the whole thing...Scott and I were getting more monkeylike by the second...We were laughing and then I heard a cracking sound. It was my tree limb and I was going down. I tried to jump off onto another branch, but it turned out I wasn't much of a monkey. I missed and landed dead center on the tent. It broke my fall. Without the tent, I would have broken my neck. An instant later Scott fell, and he landed on the tent, too...We were crying and laughing. We were a disaster of tent canvas and blood...

"We drove forty-five minutes back into town and pulled up to the hospital...The nurse asked me if we banged ourselves up playing hockey. I told her, 'No, we were climbing in a tree acting like monkeys, and the branch broke.' She told me not to be a smart[alleck], and if she wanted some humor she would ask for it. Then she pulled a piece of bark out of the inside of my lip and said, 'You weren't kidding, were you?' I said, 'No, I wasn't. And we have the video to back it up!'"

I so want to see that video. :)