Look at that sweet face...

...now picture it with a broken nose.

We've all heard fast food can be unhealthy, but today C-Monkey experienced a freak fast food related accident we never saw coming. Arby's has a hand rail apparatus designed to keep their innumerable customers (3) in a nice, tidy line. We've told C-Monkey a zillion times not to hang on the rails, but he knew -- and we knew -- we were only saying that so the manager wouldn't yell at him (or more importantly, at us, and then spit in our food...we restaurant people really do that, you know; just watch the channel 2 news)

Anyway, C was hanging or swinging or something when all four bolts let go at the same time, the faux marble hand rail flew off, clocked him on the forehead, bounced off his nose, and knocked him on his keister. That TWACK! sound was the back of his head hitting the tile floor. There was no blood, just a tiny scratch on his nose and a wail that would give the Civil Defense siren a run for it's money.

While we took turns holding him, rocking and soothing him, we watched the bridge of his nose begin to swell. phopl took him to the baby vet, and sure enough, he has a broken face. He went to his dad's for the weekend, but I fully expect to see him on Monday sporting a pair of shiners. So the moral of the story is: be oh-so-careful out there in those treacherous fast food restaurants.

And we thought the only danger was the cholesterol...