Oh boy

OW.

That was this morning

Oh wow oh wow yikes yikes

A scrape?

Eek

Did you get shot or something?

how did that happen?

I was on a bike. Went around a corner

@Zak I almost asked if you fell off your bike!

I've seen that kind of stuff happen before.

I went one way, the bike went the other. Suddenly, I'm at 90 degrees to the ground and approaching at speed

Probably hit some sand.

I really don't know. It's the same corner I go around every day.

Sand acts just like that.

and just, today, not my day

The front wheel loses traction, you lose control.

Was the road wet? That is my only other guess.

sounds aout right

beautiful sunny day

I've only ever had one really bad bike accident.

also not the road

I don't trust rush hour traffic

@EthanBierlein I learned to ride by falling off.

My siblings had it easy - my mom taught them. My dad taught me.

It was back when I was 9, and I was going down a hill at ~15 MPH, and I fell off the side of my bike.

I completely scraped up my entire arm, and my knee was destroyed.

Fortunately I didn't break any bones.

But the worst I've seen is when my brother rode up on a sidwalk, didn't turn quick enough, and barreled into the brick wall of a church.

It's hard to think that that was already 5*.5* years ago.

When I was 11 (I think) went over a speed bump (slowly mind you) and the suspension locked, and I went over the handlebars

Oh dear.

@Zak That doesn't sound slow.

I almost flipped over the front of a bike this summer.

it reallyy was

Yikes.

Bruised from my hip to my shoulder

Green and yellow and purple

Does anyone remember when I was talking about how I fell off on an alpine slide? Probably not.

But I had orange fluid coming out of my scrapes after that.

It scared me.

Let's see, that was back during the thunderstorms.

That I missed

@EthanBierlein Sounds like blood.

@EthanBierlein yawk

@Hosch250 With too much water.

or something

pbs.twimg.com/media/CMUe4vHUAAAJPe1.jpg:large

It's just some of us (i.e. me, and maybe others) get groggy at this sort of stuff

@Hosch250 What...

@Hosch250 How on earth did that get to pbs.*?

@EthanBierlein Twitter.

Ah right. duh

Apparently, that is where they store their images.

@Phrancis I agree. The pictures, especially, are making me a little nauseous.

@Phrancis klkl, I'll make a note for future reference

You guys couldn't be doctors.

Did I ever tell you guys about our swingset?

@Phrancis Can you move our injury talk to the "Horrific Injuries" room?

Never got any worse accidents than concussions there.

@Hosch250 Let's talk in the other room if it's about an injury.

(Tire swing under the deck, and I fell off the tower.)

No injury.

We would just swing as big as we could (180 degree loops) and jump.

We would sail through the air several feet, and (usually) land running.

It was taken down after several years after we held a "circus" on my birthday.

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Let's keep that room permanently alive.

Once a week, we'll tell an anecdote.

You go ahead and do that

Ooh, I like that.

(it's on SO :)

OK, every Friday night.

Our new Friday message can be posting links to the room.

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room topic changed to Horrific Injuries: Talk about your horrible injuries here. Once a week we will will tell an anecdote. [blood] [broken-bone] [crrack!]