Today, I got to go to the water park with my class. I jumped over the rails that maintain lines because there was nobody around and managed to break a toe. Hello, 7+ hours of roasting in the sun, watching 500 other kids have a great time. FML
toeman
Sonoma, United States
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zerotiki 5
Wow-my 1st submission got posted! This was my classes senior year trip, and my mother was chaperoning... We didn't know the toe was broken until I got home, but the day was less exciting than I hoped it would be.
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acmariner99 25
Did we learn something today?
Akitakat 31
Toe be honest, you deserved it.
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Akitakat 31
Toe be honest, you deserved it.
acmariner99 25
Did we learn something today?
tonyfan00 38
That's too fun...
tonyfan00 38
That's toe fun...
Glowworm56 27
Well that was a toetally stupid idea.
Christina Winden 22
That's your own fault for being an idiot but they seriously couldn't have found someone to take you to the ER?
GhostFox 34
They were probably understaffed. Trips like that tend to rely on parents volunteering as chaperones, and they almost always just barely meet the requirement because schools are already understaffed. That said, they are required to have medical kits both at water parks and with at least one chaperone on field trips- they could have at least taped OP's toe to another toe so they could walk around, considering that's all a doctor would tell them to do.
Chinaski76 15
I teach high school and through my experience planning field trips, if the school didn't have enough chaperones, the field trip would not have been approved by the school or the water park and would not have happened. Parks like that will often check that the school has provided the right amount of chaperones before letting them in. Also, I know I would face repercussions from my school if I didn't make sure the injured kid got medical attention—even if I had to leave to go to the hospital with the kid. That being said, when you do large group trips with high school age kids to a water or amusement park, the kids are not with a chaperone the whole time, so it's probable a chaperone or teacher didn't even know about the incident or how serious the injury was. Most of the time chaperones on those trips have no idea what the kids are up to (which kind of negates the whole purpose of chaperones…).
Cali 57
Broken toes often require little medical attention. All they can do in most cases is tape it to another toe and wish you good luck.
Lobby_Bee 18
Well that was stupid, couldn't you find a shaded area to wait? Seven hours in the sun can get you a sunburn.
Lalala579121 28
I think sunburn would be the least of my worries if I had to stay that long in the sun.
RichardPencil 32
You don’t have to sit there and roast. You could call a toe truck.
Madrias 36
Nothing like a bit of instant justice. Instead of getting to be first, you get to hurry up and wait.
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
That's what you get for cutting in line. Nice insta-catma right there...