Scared!

One time in Junior year, when it was late in the evening and the lights were turned down, I heard Ed Prybylski coming up the long stairway (toward the Old Wing Junior dorm) in his normal carefree and lanky way. I decided I was going to scare him and so I hid behind the laundry bag stand on the stairwell platform just outside the junior dorm area. Just as he passed me I jumped out at him but my plan backfired. In his panic at being scared in the dark, his limbs flew out in every direction. His flying right hand caught me with a blow across the side of the head. He of course was not happy with me and I was not happy for having gotten myself a well placed karate chop.