Confederate Confusion

Sometimes all the tour guides dress up like Civil War soldiers. We even have rifle muskets from the time period that we carry around. One of the guides...let's call him Corey, dresses as a Confederate.

About a week ago, Corey was dressing in his Confederate uniform. He had his rifle musket leaning against his locker while he tied his shoe.

As Corey was down there, Jacob (name also changed) went into the bathroom to do his business. He startled Corey, who jumped up and bumped into his rifle musket. The damn thing then fell on Corey's head.

Corey suffered a concussion and had to be taken to the hospital. An ambulance was called for him. WHILE HE WAS DRESSED AS A CONFEDERATE.

My boss feared that the gun might go off or explode or something, so the fire department was also called.

While Corey was in the hospital, he called his roommate just to tell him what had happened. But Corey didn't explain it very well. He simply said, "I'm in the hospital...I got hit in the head with a gun." The roommate didn't know what was going on, and so he assumed that Corey got pistol-whipped by some gangster.

The Moral: The next time you dress as a Confederate soldier, lean your rifle musket against a wall.

I really, really wanted to see the look on the doctor's face as Corey was rolled in to the ER while wearing that sad sack.