Sunday, December 07, 2008

Wheeling About

There's something cruelly ironic in being able to ride a unicycle in figure-eight patterns, yet crashing and falling face-flat off your two-wheeled bike -- twice -- within the same 15 minute time span on the way to a friend's house the night before.

I also skinned my knee and bruised my leg, too. So quick, somebody go grab me a big, sloshing bucket of sympathy,
and while you're out there, some gelato as well.


(It was not this dynamic.)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like gelato. :) And I haven't ridden a bike in probably 7 or 8 years. I'd fall on my face too. But I can drive a car VERY well, and it has 4 :) So I guess that means if I divide 4/4 = 1, I'd be AMAZING at unicycle. :D

Michael said...

oh NO!!!! sympathy-sympathy-sympathy-sympathy-sympathy-sympathy-sympathy-sympathy

is that enough sympathy? i tried :D.

if it makes you feel better, at least you didn't break your foot! :D

S said...

Hey- what exactly were you doing to make yourself fall off your bike like that? Turning too fast? Stopping too fast? What?

on a completely different note, my word verification word is "poked." Which is really, really amusing.

Zhela said...

Slippery evening, and I basically caught a bad sidewalk ridge... uh, twice.

And good point, Michael... I do at least still have all of my skeletal structure intact :D .

Anonymous said...

Wenn es Dich tröstet...mir ist einmal das vordere Rad stehen geblieben. Was folgt - ein 5 Meter langer Bremsweg - mit meinem Kinn. Sehr blutig...kaum schmerzhaft. Komisch nur, dass ich mir nichts gebrochen habe (aber eine Narbe habe ich bis heute).
Marcin

Zhela said...

Heilige Scheiße, das klingt aber schmerzvoll. (O_o)

Anonymous said...

Kling schmerzvoll, war es aber nicht. Ich denke es ist normal bei Schock-Situationen, das man keine Schmerzen spürt. Heute kann ich darüber lachen - weil mir ein bisschen Haut wegoperiert wurde, sage ich immer ich hätte mit 17 ein kostenloses Face-lifting bekommen.
Ein sprichwort bei uns sagt - nie ma zlego, co by na dobre nie wyszlo (es gibt nichts schlimmes, was nicht gut endet).
Well...yeah. Even the fact that I started to learn German I owe to an accident involwing a twisted ankle.