Marilyn Frazier:  

lways wanted to be a doctor when I was growing up. My family and friends thought that was a good idea. As it turns out, we were all wrong. A DAY I WILL NOT FORGET I'll never forget the day Raymond Panky fell on my head. I was about three years old and playing in the back yard with a bunch of older kids. Some one decided to get some junk from the vacant lot behind our yard. They got a corrigated board about six or eight feet long and put one end on the top of the shed in the back yard and the other end on the ground. Then some one else decided to put a wire rack at the top of the board on the roof of the shed and create a gigantic slide. Wow! what creativty and genious was going on in that yard that day! The first person went down the slide. What speed, grace, and finess. And my brother stood on the ground under the slide. Oh, the nerve and bravery. So I decided to stand under the slide when Ramond Panky slid down. I was not as fortunate as my brother. The slide broke when he was about half way down and Raymond and the slide hit me square on top of my head and knocked me to the ground. I was thinking bad idea, bad idea. My daddy came out side, picked me up and took me inside. I did not cry. I was too stunned, but that is a day I will not forget. I think there is a moral in there somewhere.