When was the first time you ever got the breath knocked out of you?

I was about 7. Playing at a neighbors on their swing set. I was swinging on the metal cross bar and lost it on the out-swing. Came down flat and hard. Saw stars. Couldn’t breath. The song “She Loves You” Yaa Yaa Yaa by the Beatles was playing somewhere, and that song is all intertwined with my shock. Kids gathered around going, “She got the breath knocked out of her! Get up, Valerie!!!” Finally got back on my feet, and went back to playing, glad to be alive!

Nowadays kids would probably run home and tell their parents, and their parents would sue the neighbors.