Callback To My Senior Year Of High School When I Went To Compete In Shakespeare Comp. (I Placed 13/20

Callback to my senior year of high school when I went to compete in Shakespeare Comp. (I placed 13/20 in the chorus section. The song I chose is called In Darkness Let Me Dwell)

I am a very superstitious person and everyone knows this. One such superstition is about Shakespeare's Scottish Play.

For those who don't know, the basics of it are as follows: Shakespeare used an actual incantation in the play. The local witches didn't like this, so they cursed the show, causing major mishaps during any production. People have died while in a cast for it, or they've been injured. I read about where someone swapped the prop knife for a real one and one of the actors got stabbed.

Anyway, a lot of people (myself included) believe that the curse runs so deep that the very name of the play activates it. When said in any context outside of the actual show, bad things happen. It's why most people refer to it as The Scottish Play (it takes place in Scotland) instead of by it's actual name.

There are a few ways to put a hold on the curse, but people who don't believe in it don't like them because "they make me look ridiculous".

It's especially bad if the play's name is said in a theatre.

So! Cursed play, Shakespeare Comp., I'm performing on the second day. It was on a college campus, but the entire campus had been turned into various theatres for the competition's purposes.

My class is sitting in the main building, me getting ready to go perform and the others waiting around to go watch a play. (They watched one while I was performing because I was only allowed 2 audience, but I got to watch Pirates of Penzance with them) One of my classmates doesn't believe in the curse, but he is well aware that I am. Just as I'm ready to get in costume, he says the name of The Scottish Play. I turned on him and very kindly asked him to go undo the curse because I could not afford to be cursed by proxy. He refused. I went to perform.

I met up with everyone afterwards and we went to watch Pirates of Penzance (a very good musical, very funny) before heading back to the main building to get on the bus that would take us back to the hotel.

There was a drop off in front of the main building, barely a foot, that everyone was jumping off because the stairs/ramp were on the other side of the wall and no one really wanted to go that far. I was at the back of the group in costume - a wedding dress and character shows, don't ask - so I was the last one to jump down.

My friend knows I fully blame him for what happens next and that I'm only slightly joking. I still don't forgive him.

The heel of my shoe caught the seam where the cement ends and the patch for the tree starts. My ankle went right (towards the tree) and the rest of me went left (towards the bench). My friend, Rigs, heard me fall and came back to help. Another friend, Ris, and the VP on the trip with us both came back as well. Ris went back to the group and got our teacher and another friend, Ken. I was in pain and feeling crowded, so the only person I would let stay with me was Ken, though the VP had to stay. The others went ahead and the bus came around because I couldn't walk.

When we got back to the hotel, I was the last off, but, again, putting weight on my right ankle was not gonna happen, so Ken's boyfriend princess carried me into the hotel. When we got to our floor, they got the rolly chair from the room I was in and that's how I got back.

Changing outta the wedding dress was a pain because I don't like changing around people, so I didn't let anyone help me. (Dressing rooms are different) (And I had to change my bra. I don't care how much I trust the three I was rooming with, I was not about to be tits out in front of any of them)

My teacher's wife (who was with us) bought an ankle brace while the VP bought some crutches. I went to the doctor's the day after we got back (it was a three day trip) and I was told that if it had been a drop from any higher or if there had been even the slightest bit more weight in it, my ankle bone would've fractured or broken.

I had to wear a boot for two months, and I wore the ankle brace whenever I had to perform, made the NYC trip (for choir) hell. It still hurts from time to time, though it's been about two years, give or take a few months.

Anyway, that's the story of how I almost broke my ankle.

Also, I saw another guy on crutches the next day. I asked him what happened and he said that his friend had said the name of the Scottish Play, too.

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Danny: Green

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Can I just have a billionaire's credit card for a day? Please?

I promise I won't do anything malicious with it! I just need to get food and a car and a house, a few cats, a cargo trailer, and a vacation

We all know we're all only one person talking to themself on way too many accounts

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Bruce and Oliver have a bad habit of not telling people their plans and it's a bit funny.

Bruce is worse at it, though