Memior

By

Nick Daugherty

Tubing

           

It was a beautiful summer evening and the water was clear as glass.  My two older brothers, a friend and I were out on the water tubing.  We were tubing for a while and then it was my turn. My brother Tyler stayed on the other tube.  We use two separate tubes and one person per tube.  It makes it a lot funnier and more room to do different things. 

     This summer will be the third summer with the new boat.  Well, I still call it new because our last one was really old and smaller.  The new boat has a 265-horse engine and is 20 feet long.  The old one only had a 135-horse engine and was a lot shorter.  We have a lot of fun with the new boat and maybe we have too much fun.  A lot of people have gotten hurt including me.

     So on that nice summer day it was Tyler and I on the tubes.  We had been going for a while.  If you understand tubing with the Daugherty’s at all.  You might want to say a prayer before you get on the tube. It is crazy out there.  You never know what the driver is going to do and you have to be ready at all times.

     So to get to my story. We had been riding tubes for a while when my brother made a perfect wave.  Jordon made Tyler and I go over the wave perfectly.  Tyler went up and flip over and starting to come down. When I hit the wave I slid underneath in the air.  He came down with his back facing down and we landed back-to-back, head-to-head. 

     We fell off the tubes right away and we both reached for our heads.  When we were in the water my brother on saying that his head hurt and I swam over to him and tried to calm him down. I kept telling him “I was right there” and “I got you.”  My brother got most of the force to his head.  I had some pain but not as bad as Tyler.  When the boat got back to us I got into it right away and helped pull my brother into the boat.  He said his head hurt very badly` and he couldn’t remember what happened after he landed on me.

     We think we got slight concussions but we never went into the doctor to make sure. This didn’t stop us from tubing.  We didn’t go tubing the day after that because we still had slight headaches.  We went the next weekend though. 

     I am still a little scared but it doesn’t stop me from going tubing again.

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Memior

By

Nick Daugherty

Tubing

           

It was a beautiful summer evening and the water was clear as glass.  My two older brothers, a friend and I were out on the water tubing.  We were tubing for a while and then it was my turn. My brother Tyler stayed on the other tube.  We use two separate tubes and one person per tube.  It makes it a lot funnier and more room to do different things. 

     This summer will be the third summer with the new boat.  Well, I still call it new because our last one was really old and smaller.  The new boat has a 265-horse engine and is 20 feet long.  The old one only had a 135-horse engine and was a lot shorter.  We have a lot of fun with the new boat and maybe we have too much fun.  A lot of people have gotten hurt including me.

     So on that nice summer day it was Tyler and I on the tubes.  We had been going for a while.  If you understand tubing with the Daugherty’s at all.  You might want to say a prayer before you get on the tube. It is crazy out there.  You never know what the driver is going to do and you have to be ready at all times.

     So to get to my story. We had been riding tubes for a while when my brother made a perfect wave.  Jordon made Tyler and I go over the wave perfectly.  Tyler went up and flip over and starting to come down. When I hit the wave I slid underneath in the air.  He came down with his back facing down and we landed back-to-back, head-to-head. 

     We fell off the tubes right away and we both reached for our heads.  When we were in the water my brother on saying that his head hurt and I swam over to him and tried to calm him down. I kept telling him “I was right there” and “I got you.”  My brother got most of the force to his head.  I had some pain but not as bad as Tyler.  When the boat got back to us I got into it right away and helped pull my brother into the boat.  He said his head hurt very badly` and he couldn’t remember what happened after he landed on me.

     We think we got slight concussions but we never went into the doctor to make sure. This didn’t stop us from tubing.  We didn’t go tubing the day after that because we still had slight headaches.  We went the next weekend though. 

     I am still a little scared but it doesn’t stop me from going tubing again.