Yeah, well, I avoided an event of this general nature until quite recently, a decade or so ago. I was very glad Dermabond was in common use to suture up the gash above my eye, I hate to think what the alternatives were back in the '70s.

No, dodgeball is no fun at all when the stakes are higher and you aren't yet well coordinated (this was high school; for some reason, I didn't get coordinated until my college years, perhaps when I stopped growing...).

There's also the minor detail of it being involuntary. I should have told the coaches to f--- off and that I'd get a GED when the time came to graduate....