20.06.08

Crash

Posted in Comedy, Life at 9:22 am by alby

Well what a morning!

Cycled to work today.  First time since some time last week.  Very nice.

Now there’s a bit in Watermead Park where the path goes over a swampy bit.  So they’ve put a wooden path down, raised a bit from the damp ground.  It’s a little bit rickety so moves a touch at times when you cycle over some of the boards. 

Anyway I rode along that bit, neatly swerved past a man walking there and zoomed on. 

Then a sodding fly landed in my eye.  Bang on.

Now imagine cycling a thin-ish path, trying to go one handed whilst the other hand is flailing up to the eye to try and get the still buzzing thing out.

Arse over tit I went as the bike went off the side of the path.  Lovely.

I now have a sore wrist and ankle.  Luckily the ground was actually soft so no proper damage done and the bike’s fine.

But that wasn’t enough for the world today.

I got back on my bike just as the bloke I passed walked by me.  The gears had been shoved up a bit higher so I put my feet down to pedal and nothing much happened as I didn’t put enough force down to make the high geared wheel go round.  The pedal was also damp after being dunked in the swamp so my foot slipped as I tried to put more force through it.

I fell in again.

Lovely.

Bloke smirked at me.

Sigh.

What else can go wrong today I wonder?

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