When I was a teen, I had a paper route for a few years. I’m riding along the sidewalk and get to a bump in a driveway. I pull up my handle bars to bring the front tire over the bump, and the tire falls off! the forks hit the ground and I go over and down, landing flat on my chest and getting the wind knocked out of me.
I’m lying there on the driveway, rolling back and forth in agony because I can’t breathe in, and this lady walks up to me, carrying two grocery bags. She leans over and nicely asks:
Pete! How is it you’re not afraid of bicycles and two-wheeled transportation devices? Sheesh! … and I hope the “grocery lady” helped you home and off to get some medical attention!
Yah, Meg, Randie DEFINITELY has some icing in her future! And I’d say that did wonders for her pride. A couple years ago I was showing a friend my new office and we took a back door out of the building (one I’d not taken before). And so there was this very clean full-length window masquerading as an open door… you can imagine what happened next. I created an “etching” on the window with my front teeth… and thusly breaking them as well (my front teeth). I was incredibly embarrassed but am saving that little episode for a cartoon in the future… because in hindsight, it was kinda funny. Level 4 funny (not funny when happening… but makes a funny story later).
*hehe* So true.
When I was a teen, I had a paper route for a few years. I’m riding along the sidewalk and get to a bump in a driveway. I pull up my handle bars to bring the front tire over the bump, and the tire falls off! the forks hit the ground and I go over and down, landing flat on my chest and getting the wind knocked out of me.
I’m lying there on the driveway, rolling back and forth in agony because I can’t breathe in, and this lady walks up to me, carrying two grocery bags. She leans over and nicely asks:
“Are you okay?”
Poor Randie, that’s just a LITTLE embarassing.
I’m no psychic but I predict a visit to the hospital and some bonding time with an ice pack in Randie’s future.
Pete! How is it you’re not afraid of bicycles and two-wheeled transportation devices? Sheesh! … and I hope the “grocery lady” helped you home and off to get some medical attention!
Yah, Meg, Randie DEFINITELY has some icing in her future! And I’d say that did wonders for her pride. A couple years ago I was showing a friend my new office and we took a back door out of the building (one I’d not taken before). And so there was this very clean full-length window masquerading as an open door… you can imagine what happened next. I created an “etching” on the window with my front teeth… and thusly breaking them as well (my front teeth). I was incredibly embarrassed but am saving that little episode for a cartoon in the future… because in hindsight, it was kinda funny. Level 4 funny (not funny when happening… but makes a funny story later).
Heh, my sister did the same thing as a kid when we where looking at houses to move into. Ran full speed into the patio door 🙂
Hmmm. In my case I punched out a glass door. Had been aiming for someone’s head and missed. So THAT’S what the inside of my wrist looks like!
Ouch! and ouch! Crow… I imagine that was your drawing hand! Sigh… And Drenzul, did your sister keep her teeth? I hope they wasn’t her permanent ones.
Oh yes. But long ago healed. Just a nice looong scar to show for it now.