Kristen Oxley
Reporter
November 18, 2005
Junior April Martin had a crushing experience on Thanksgiving of her fourth grade year. April and her sister decided to go outside and play roller skate street hockey with their new sticks. In the course of their playing, she decided to go for a shot and swung really big. Unfortunately, she missed the puck but had enough momentum to fall to the ground, landing on her wrist and breaking it. Her sister helped her up as she cried, but being the klutzy kid she was, no one really thought she was hurt that badly until they took her to the hospital three days later.
April Martin
Grandma got run over by a go-cart one Thanksgiving in senior Leah Seevers’ family. When she was little, Leah and her two older brothers piled into her cousin’s go-cart to go for a ride, but as they got going they realized that her brother driving was too little to reach the brake pedal. Their grandma thought they were going to hit a fence, so in a heroic effort she stepped out in front of the go-cart. Unfortunately for her, the momentum and force of the go-cart was more than Grandma could handle, and she got knocked down and her legs were run over by the go-cart. She is just fine now, but it was a stunning experience for Grandma that year.
Leah Seevers
Freshman Leah Anderson got a lesson in cooking one Thanksgiving when her mom asked her to salt the turkey. Leah was not quite sure how much salt was enough, so she just kept pouring it on. Her mom wasn’t too happy when they tasted the turkey and realized that it was oversaturated with salt. Thankfully they had enough of all the other foods to make up for the ruined turkey.
Leah Anderson
In the fall of freshman year, senior Theo McFarlane went to school in Jamaica. Since Jamaicans do not celebrate Thanksgiving, he just went to school as normal, hung out with his friends that night and completely forgot that it was Thanksgiving. The next day his parents called to see how his holiday was and he realized his forgetfulness. Theo then sent e-mails to his friends wishing them a Happy Jamaican Thanksgiving to cover up his mistake.
Theo McFarlane
Thanksgiving 2004 was a wet one for junior Hannah Beth Potter. Her family spent the holiday in Orlando, and it wasn’t quite a magical experience. First, her parents could not find the hotel so her brother Josiah stood in the median of the road in the pouring rain trying to flag them down. Thanksgiving dinner was spent at Cracker Barrel where the food was bad, the pie was burnt and they could not even sit on the rocking chairs and play checkers because there were so many little kids running around. To top off their vacation to the happiest place on earth, her family only went to one park and only rode a few rides because it was pouring down rain. She was soaked through her three layers of shirts all the way down to her socks and shoes.
Hannah Beth Potter
Happy Thanksgiving from The Stampede staff!