Why Rules Are Important
So to give some background, it was the morning after my brother’s 10th birthday party and his friends were still over from the sleepover. My parents’ house had a fully finished basement that was often used as the place for all the kids to hang out and play.
I was only five at the time, which meant I could get into all the best hiding spots. Except that day, I made a terrible mistake. I had the brilliant idea of hiding behind the TV and TV stand. It was a huge old tube TV, maybe 30 inches, so lots of space.
There was a DVD rack to the left of the TV stand that stored the VHS tapes. I was small enough that I was able to hide on top of the sub-woofer for the sound and couldn’t be seen from in front of the TV. Perfect, right? Wrong.
Well, this all turns bad when the three other hiding places were checked and behind the TV was checked. I was found out and tried to make a break for home base. The only safe way from behind the TV was where “Joe” was guarding.
So with the logic of a five-year-old, I thought I could jump over the DVD rack to get past “Joe” to get to base. I didn’t make the jump, got my foot got hooked on the rack, and collapsed onto the glass coffee table and shattered it.
I got rushed to the ER, happened to need stitches for all the glass that went into my chest. Had the glass gone a millimeter deeper, it would have punctured my heart. We were told many times by my parents to not to play hide and seek and run around in the basement.
Funny that you don’t listen to rules until you find out why. Source: Reddit/Fookenreddit