A Busy Weekend and a Banged Head
Happy Monday! Back to work and perhaps I can catch my breath. Weekends used to be a time to throttle down and take it easy, but we have so may things going on now.
Celebrate Fairfax was a blast. Lots of fun and it was great to see so many of our viewers. I also got to meet Randolph Mantooth. If you watched EMERGENCY in the 1970s, he was John Gage. Randolph was 2 booths down from the 9 NEWS NOW tent and he was at the fair with the Fairfax County Fire and EMS folks. It's tough to believe that EMERGENCY is celebrating it's 30th anniversary and that the still boyish looking star is now 61 years old.
On Sunday, I took my son to New Market, MD where they have a place called Adventure Park. One of my son's friends was celebrating his 7th birthday. Things were going great. We had pizza and cake and we were outside on the mini go-carts.
As a parent, I have to learn to let the rope out more and more as my son gets older. It's tough sometimes to sit back and stay out of the way. Anyway, the boys were racing around the course when the birthday boy, Jonathon, was trying to pass Philip. Being competitive (like his Daddy), Philip does not want this to happen. He looks over his shoulder at Jonathon just as they were both coming to a sharp curve. I saw the whole thing unfolding in what felt like slow-motion. Seeing my son not watching where he was going and not being able to do anything to stop him from what was about to happen was painful for me, but not nearly as painful as what would happen to Philip.
Instead of turning, like he should have if he was looking forward, Philip slammed into the guard rail at full throttle and then got hit in the left rear by his friend Jonathon. He was bouncing around like a Plinko Chip on The Price is Right. I immediately ran over to him and unbuckled my crying little boy. I know he was hurt, but it was only a banged head and a little bruise on his forehead. As bad as it looked, I was actually pretty relieved. Philip won't be driving for real for about 10 years so I have time to teach him about looking where you're driving and I also have some time to put money away for auto insurance.
By the way, the young man, Brandon, who was working the go-cart area was very good to walk with us to the food area and get some ice for my son's head. Best of all, they gave Philip some chocolate ice cream so that he wouldn't feel so bad. Chocolate ice cream has some great medicinal value as it only took a few minutes for Philip to recover enough to get back on the race course.
Celebrate Fairfax was a blast. Lots of fun and it was great to see so many of our viewers. I also got to meet Randolph Mantooth. If you watched EMERGENCY in the 1970s, he was John Gage. Randolph was 2 booths down from the 9 NEWS NOW tent and he was at the fair with the Fairfax County Fire and EMS folks. It's tough to believe that EMERGENCY is celebrating it's 30th anniversary and that the still boyish looking star is now 61 years old.
On Sunday, I took my son to New Market, MD where they have a place called Adventure Park. One of my son's friends was celebrating his 7th birthday. Things were going great. We had pizza and cake and we were outside on the mini go-carts.
As a parent, I have to learn to let the rope out more and more as my son gets older. It's tough sometimes to sit back and stay out of the way. Anyway, the boys were racing around the course when the birthday boy, Jonathon, was trying to pass Philip. Being competitive (like his Daddy), Philip does not want this to happen. He looks over his shoulder at Jonathon just as they were both coming to a sharp curve. I saw the whole thing unfolding in what felt like slow-motion. Seeing my son not watching where he was going and not being able to do anything to stop him from what was about to happen was painful for me, but not nearly as painful as what would happen to Philip.
Instead of turning, like he should have if he was looking forward, Philip slammed into the guard rail at full throttle and then got hit in the left rear by his friend Jonathon. He was bouncing around like a Plinko Chip on The Price is Right. I immediately ran over to him and unbuckled my crying little boy. I know he was hurt, but it was only a banged head and a little bruise on his forehead. As bad as it looked, I was actually pretty relieved. Philip won't be driving for real for about 10 years so I have time to teach him about looking where you're driving and I also have some time to put money away for auto insurance.
By the way, the young man, Brandon, who was working the go-cart area was very good to walk with us to the food area and get some ice for my son's head. Best of all, they gave Philip some chocolate ice cream so that he wouldn't feel so bad. Chocolate ice cream has some great medicinal value as it only took a few minutes for Philip to recover enough to get back on the race course.
posted by Howard Bernstein, 9 Weather Now at
6:46 AM
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