Ah but the follies continue. I forgot to mention it, but yesterday on my first attempt at water skiing, I held on way too long even after I lost my skiis and was mostly underwater, and when I came to my senses I realized there was something strangely free-feeling about my lower extremities. While I fished around for my trunks in the middle of the lane my friends, not knowing what had happened, were yelling at me to grab my skis and get out of the way. But I was kind of preoccupied so I only shouted back "okay." I had to shout back "okay" like five times because my life vest turned me into a bobbing buoy that couldn't double over in the necessary position.
But wait, there's more. I think today tops yesterday.
I was riding back from work with a sack full of groceries. There was a backpack on my back. A PDA was strapped to my side. I looked like some sort of geek commando riding no-hands will all these useless artifacts of modern-day living dangling off my person. I only get into bike wrecks when riding no-hands, it seems, but what made this one special is that it was so slow-speed. I slipped off the front of my seat, and with nothing to support me, had to plant my feet on either side of the bike, tried unsuccessfully to let the bike roll out from under me, tottered, and came crashing down on my side. The artifacts piled on top of me. My bike started to continue on but then decided to join the fun and, cornering, crashed down in like fashion on top of me. Of course I was cursing and stuff, especially because I feared I had crushed the eggs or, worse yet, my PDA, but soon after that I was laughing. It must have been hilarious to watch. I wish I could have seen it. I would crash again if it could be videotaped for me later.
But only two eggs were crushed and my PDA seems okay. Geek commando survives another day in this jungle. Afterwards I laughed off and on about the whole thing for probably an hour.
Posted by Alan at August 1, 2002 09:18 PM