Racquetballs and Eyeballs

Racquetball seems like a harmless sport.

Last Friday, I went to play with a couple of my friends – Kory and Regan. When Kory and I went into the men’s locker room to get our gear, they handed us a racquet and a ball.

“What, no goggles?” Kory inquired. The two locker room attendants just laughed and said no, almost as if it was some big inside joke that BYU was playing on us. I made some comment about how misused our tithing money is, and we strutted over to the court, our racquets propped up coolly over our shoulders.

Kory and I began warming up, waiting for Regan. We found out quickly two important facts:
1. Neither one of us could remember the actual rules
2. We were both terrible. Embarrassingly bad. I’m sure a pair of elementary school girls with only one leg each would give us a run for our money.

Then Regan arrives. We start playing, and whoever wasn’t hitting the ball in that round would stand against the wall. After about three minutes of playing, Kory runs to get a ball off of the bounce and hits it full-force - right into Regan’s eye.

Turns out that when a racquetball connects perfectly onto one’s eye, it can actually suction on and rip the eyeball out of its socket.

Luckily this didn’t happen to Regan. Although it did leave her with a very swollen face. She had a great attitude though, and I would say we had more fun sitting on the racquetball court laughing about it than we would have if we had actually played racquetball.

I think we’re planning on going shooting next week.


Regan and her swollen eye, she was such a good sport!