Slightly Different Than Expected

So, this weekend, my buddy from high school came up to visit on his way up to a wedding, so I got a couple of us high school buddies got together and we decided to take a trip into downtown Knoxville to have a night out!

The goofy one on the left is me, the one in the middle is Jake Holladay, who is attending the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. The one on the right is John Sikes and the lovely girl behind the camera is Elodie Kruk. (don't worry you'll meet her soon enough!)

Well, enough said we were on our way downtown past Ayres hall (my favorite building on campus!) when we stop for some pictures, which naturally turned into antics. We start fooling around when Jake jumps over a bike rack. 

Now, i didn't see what happened exactly, I was turned around, but the idea, is that jake more or less broke his finger, or at least that is what I assumed, because his finger was kind of sideways.

So, as you can imagine, after a quick moment of panicking, slowly followed by a small amount of rational thinking, we take him to the UT medical center.

There's the nurse popping his finger back into place

Well, after a few x-rays the doctor asked us what had happened.

Now, as you can imagine breaking your finger while jumping over a bike rack is a less than glorious injury story. So, the story jumped back and forth a little bit. In Radiology the story was that Jake had wrestled a tiger and punched it in the face. To the registration nurse, the story was that he had hurt it wrestling in the trunk of a car with a hooker. (that was my personal favorite story) And, when the UTPD was filing its injury report it was the truth... unfortunately.

Awhhh, Jake looks drained! and That is the lovely Elodie in the middle there, by the way.

Luckily Jake had only dislocated his finger! (with a slight fracture on the end of the dislocated bone.) Honestly, I dont know how it wasnt broken, but for Jake's sake, I'm glad he was spared a lot of pain by that fact! 

That Nurse was so funny!

After a little wait, and a second run through radiology, the discharged jake, which was good, because the night was young! we were still going to hit the town!

Sorry for the blurry photography Please note John being a total idiot. He gave the parking guy the parking fee looking like that.

Moral of the story here;

1) Bike racks do not enjoy games of leap frog

2) If you injure yourself doing something stupid, come up with an epic story, BEFORE the officer asks you what happened.