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Grass (Flee) Darts
You’ll still find them anywhere these days. They were basically a dart-shaped thing that you found growing in fields. The great thing about them, and what made them so amusing as a kid, was that you could throw them at people, and it would stick to their clothing (providing they were wearing something like cotton or wool, basically anything it could lodge itself into). It was pointless, I know. But back then, it was just so damn entertaining. You used to run around at school, chasing your friends around throwing these damn things at each other.
They were fun. That was until one day I had a slight accident. The story goes like this… A friend had a tent in his garden. We had previously been throwing flee darts (no idea why they were called flee darts, since they don’t look anything like a flee) at each other. I was armed and dangerous. I sneaked up on the tent and waited for someone to come out. A head popped out of the tent, I then waited for more of the target to appear. Part of the persons body appeared. They were wearing a woollen jumper. Perfect. I took aim, pulled back my arm to launch the missile, and then… I lost grip, and instead of throwing the dart forward, it slipped and headed backwards and ended up in the back of my throat.
The next thing I knew I was in the local casualty department with a doctors fingers down my throat. I was a precision operation, he gently tried to grab the offending object with two fingers. He was all lined, up and prepared to go for the grab, and then disaster struck… I swallowed.
Since there was no way it was going to be retrieved though my mouth, the only other option was to force it down. The prescription, bananas. Lots of bananas. And since my parents are the over-protecting type, when I say lots of bananas, I mean lots of bananas.
This little experience has had a long lasting effect on me. To this day, I am allergic to bananas. If I even smell a banana, let alone taste one, my throat swells up.
Let this be a lesson to you all. Despite them appearing to be a harmless object, used by a child for fun, they can be very dangerous and used in the wrong hands, could affect the rest of your life.
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