*And Caragata says.....*

Dumbo(not the flying elephant)

I was listening to the morning crew on Hitz.fm on my way to work, and they were swapping stories about "the dumb-est thing you've done that hurt yourself". Apparently one of em' (i cant remember JJ or Rudy) decided to jump over a bar like thingy, fell and tried to save his laptop (or something like thatla..cant remember).

Anyway, it got me thinking of this one time when i was about 11 i think. That was the "riding without holding the handles of your bike" era. So i was riding just a few meters away from my house...hands by my side, not on the handles...when i suddenly thought to myself..."maybe i should try holding the handles with crossed hands!". At that time, this was a bloody bright lightbulb to me, so i tried it and a blinding sec later....i crashed into the tar road! Man...the only thing on my mind at that moment was "shit!i hope mummy doesnt find out". That was the only thing i was afraid of, even with my skin scraped, bloody and injured from the fall.

So i picked myself up, pretending that it didnt hurt and looked to see if anyone had seen the whole thing. Luckyly, no one was around so i pushed my bike back home, just hoping that my mom won't be anywhere on our front lawn. Thank goodness she wasnt but the minute i stepped into the house, there she was. Gonecase!!! Tried to hide it but i couldnt hold back the tears. My wounds were burning! She had to check my over to see where i was hurt. Not one single word of sympathy, but the look i got was enough to stop my crying.

Turns out, my whole left side was scared. A bump on my head, scrapped my shoulder and elbow, then scrapped my knee and parts of my foot, plus a real deep cut on my toe. I was ordered to just sit still while my mom got ready to get me to the doc. The next thought was "uh-oh..mummy's definitely gonna tell papa...then i'm totally dead!"...but i guess they thought the scars would jump out at me the next time i try something totally stupid, so the parents skipped the whole lecture.

Kinda funny thinking about it now.....

posted by cath @ 9:22 AM