I was 9 or 10 when I was playing on a friend ' s tire swing . A tree branch was hanging right along head level and i got pushed too close to the tree . It didn ' t come clean off but it was hanging by the bit of cartilige underneath the ear . My friend ' s parent drove me home and dropped me off without explaining what happened . My dad actually ended up taking me to a clinic instead of urgent care so I was wrapped in gauze filling out forms for 45 minutes before I was seen . Quickest doctor visit I ever had . He came in like 3 minutes after my dad told the nurse , and the doctor simply asked him why I wasn ' t in urgent care . I remember actually being more afraid of how bad the stitches would hurt than the actual injury .