I Totally Wiped Out

So I'm on my way to class, peddling along and minding my own business, and I totally wiped out. Yeah, thats right. I crashed on my bicycle.

Let me give a little background. I have been riding a bicycle since i was 5 years old. Yeah, I remember riding around before I went to kindergarten on my sweet ride. Oh it was a good bike, and it was black! I suffered a terrible crash on that particular bicycle when i was 6. I scraped the skin off most my leg. I lied on the couch for two weeks until the scabs started falling off. In the process of that same crash I also ruined some of my favorite corduroy pants. It was a rough crash, it caused a lot of pain and grief. Not only because of the scabs, bleeding, and rocks that fell out of my leg, but also because of my ruined pants.

That was my first real bicycle accident. I suffered another tragic accident the next summer. I was riding along and tried to stop my bicycle with my foot on the front tire. This caused my frail little body to fly over my bicycle and fall ass over teakettle. That crash especially hurt because it knocked the wind out of me. Hitting my head on the road was also quite unpleasant. And to top it all of the friendly neighbor lady came out and asked me if I was O.K.

I have been crash free from that time on. At least I had been crash free, until today. My front brakes stuck on as I was turning a corner causing me to fall ass over teakettle for the first time in twenty years. It isn't all that bad that I bit the dust in such a terrible way. The thing about this crash that will stick with me and possibly cause me future grief is that I crashed in a crosswalk. I crashed in front of a whole line of cars. Some lady asked me if I was O.K. Well, that made me feel like I was 6 years old again. I had a flashback to twenty years before when I flipped over my handlebars.

So I'll suffer with these bruised knees for a few days and in the meantime I'll also try to come to terms with my flashback to when I was six.