Exclusive Club

Sofia and I have started an exclusive club here in Prague.  It is unusual to become a member and slightly painful.  It is the "Large objects falling on you Club".  As I'm sure many  of you remember a couple years ago our kitchen cabinets fell off the wall onto me so I was the first member of this exclusive club.  I was hoping I would be the only member but unfortunately Sofia joined this club yesterday when the lockers in the pool locker room fell on her.  I will start off by saying that she is fine.  It was a bit shocking.  I had just finished getting her changed for swimming and turned my back to put our things in our locker when a locker from the other wall fell over and onto Sofia.  I'm not sure how the locker fell over but it hadn't been secured to the wall in any way so I'm not sure if there was a breeze or a slight shake that sent it falling. I am assuming the doors to the lockers were open which probably contributed to the fall as it tips the balance of gravity.  Since the doors were open though by some miracle Sofia actually ended up inside the locker rather than completely under it.  She has a few bruises on her legs and a sore knee as well as a bruise on her forehead but overall she is surprisingly fine.  My heart was in my throat when it happened.  I pulled her out immediately and checked her over.  Jason came to swimming for the first time yesterday so I ran into the mens locker room to get him.  I'm sure the men in there thought I was crazy but I didn't care.  My entire body was shaking and I was completely enraged.  I went out to the front desk and yelled at the lady in half Czech/ half English to get someone to come to the locker room.  They came and said "they must have been playing with the locker" since it wouldn't fall by itself.  I couldn't believe they would actually blame a six year old for lockers falling on them.  Luckily there were people in the locker room that spoke czech and stood up for us.  As Sofia ended up inside what would have been the top of the locker had it been upright, their theory wasn't even possible.  Sofia's friend Michelle also got bumped on the head from it but is fine and my friend Kelly also got hit by it and has her own bruises and sore body today.  I will now be placing the children in a location that is protected from falling lockers whenever we go to swimming.  I did see the benefit though to me being the initial member to our club.  I think it made this expereince a little easier for Sofia.  After I pulled her out of the locker and saw she was ok she said, "it wasn't as bad as yours mommy."  I had to agree with her that mine ended up with more bumps and bruises but what I didn't say was that emotionally this experience was much worse.  I would take the cabinets falling on me all over again if I could have avoided the locker falling on Sofia.