When I was growing up, I had two playmates my brother and my cousin, both boys. I could not help growing up a tomboy. I had no other girl friends to play with. I had a lot of scrapes from skateboarding and from fighting. I had also been to the emergency room quite a few times for injuries, wounds and other pains. I got so used o seeing the ER doctor use his gripsor to cut my bandages.

I got so used to seeing the same people at the emergency room that I got to know some of them by name. By the time, I had grown up and given up my tomboy ways, I had already seen less and less of the emergency room. A few years ago, I cut myself accidentally in the kitchen. I went back to the emergency and I jokingly asked the doctor if I could get my own gripsor. It looked so cool, much better than my scissors at home. It looked like a shiny metal scissor with thicker grips and grooves.