Teenage Folly: My Misadventure with a Baby Swing

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The Time I got Stuck in a Baby swing….
A sixteen-year-old getting stuck in a baby swing! What kind of naïve teenager does that? Me, that’s who. That incident happened in the summer of 2016, July 28 to be exact, the last week of camp. I had worked for camp Assurance as a kitchen staffer that summer, along with Logan Perritt, Phoebe Alger, Ethan Alger, and Angie Bradley, doing dishes, cooking food, cleaning up messes, and serving children.
However, that year camp had decided that every Thursday morning we would take all the children out to Forest Glenn to eat breakfast. After every child finished going through the line, receiving food, then they went and sat down, quickly eating their food. After they finished eating, all the children made a beeline for the playground, …show more content…

It is starting to hurt my legs.” So, I started to get out of the swing, but then realized that I couldn’t. “Uh oh, hey Phoebs, I am kind of stuck in here,” I exclaimed, laughing, trying to not show the dread panic that started to set in. My heart started to beat very fast, as the thought of me possibly not being able to get out of that swing started to race through my mind. What would happen if I would have to stay in here all night, what if it rains, what if a raccoon thinks I’m a tiny snack? Man, this is going to be a fun one to explain at the E.R. I AM GOING TO DIE! Luckily, Logan and Ethan helped me by pulling me out, but man, did my legs ever hurt. They were instantly bruised from the pain. After that, we ended up going back to camp and enjoyed the rest of the week.
On Friday, we had the staff party and we all had the chance to share funny events that happened from the summer. I, of course, had shared about my embarrassing incident with the baby swing, but then how I couldn’t get out. This made everyone laugh, making me feel better about the incident. I will never forget the summer as the time I had gotten stuck in a baby

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