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This afternoon I was pushing my bike through a gate and holding the gate open against the spring. I did a bit of a jump over the big puddle in the gateway (not sure why as my shoes were already full of water) and as I landed I hit my thigh on a large protruding piece of threaded bar, bruising my thigh quite painfully and breaking the skin through two layers of shorts.
The sign that this bolt was holding onto the gate reads "Cyclists slow down on steep hill, take care!"
So the sign that was telling me to take care ended up injuring me 🙁
Anyone else suffered a similarly ironic injury?
I stepped backwards in a supermarket aisle and nearly fell over a yellow plastic cone warning about a slippery floor.
I stepped backwards in a supermarket aisle and nearly fell over a yellow plastic cone warning about a slippery floor.
Sue them immediately for not having a 'warning cone' warning cone out to alert to the fact there was a warning cone there.
Oh, and look where you are going in future!!
I fell in my arse near a "rear entrance" sign in a back passage.
Was looking for a knife when I tripped on some spoons.
(Not really, but you get the idea....)
🙂
Those "caution wet floor" signs are a menace. Nearly tripped over one in the office the other day.
It wasn't a spoon.
Brilliant, Al! Brilliant! 😆
I once tripped over the blind tapping rail at the doctors surgery and sprained my wrist.
Cracked some ribs many years ago crashing on a trail called "A & E" 😳
Poked myself in the eye whilst donning my safety specs before now...
Years ago, our office had a visit from a chap from [url= http://www.rospa.com/ ]R.O.S.P.A.[/url] to give us a safety at work presentation.
He set up his overhead projector - then promptly tripped over its power cable.
Our boss couldn't tell us off for laughing, as he was laughing so much that he was crying.
Got knocked off my bike by Alanis Morissette.
Mrs_oab did a little swerve to avoid a puddle on a road, at the last moment, clipped a pedal on the Burley trailer I was towing, which launched the bike and her across the road in quite a spectacular fashion, where she landed in an even bigger puddle, with added claret from the big cut in her shoulder. 😯 🙁 🙄
Got knocked off my bike by Alanis Morissette.
*applauds*
My wife says I'm quite anal about cleaning.
One day, after she'd gone to work, I decided to hoover the stairs before getting dressed. I tripped and had what you might call an ironic accident
I'm sure that's what you tell everyone 😉
A few years ago I was on holiday and walked into the bar at the end of a day of windsurfing and jet skiing. A friend shouted out "Amazing Nick, a whole day without injury!"
I said "Yeah!!" And punched the air...
...putting my raised fist into and through the overhead fan...
...cutting my knuckles, wrist and spraying blood around the bar...
...and the the fan landed on the head of my girl friend as she walked in behind me...
...and tripped the electric which shut the bar for half an hour.
All because Dave congratulated me about not having an accident.
When I was a cub scout we'd all been briefed to assemble all the bits to make our own first aid kit as part of doing our First Aid Badge.
I'd already done my badge the previous year so didn't need to bring one in. Running around in the dark before the scout hut opened I fell on a mix of gravel and broken glass and really badly gashed my knee. Surrounded by people with little tuppaware boxes full of bandages, plasters and 2p for a phone call nobody would give me a plaster because they wanted to keep their pack complete for their badge.
Of course the ultimate irony was the strike-breaking haemophiliac who was hit by a brick whilst crossing a picket line and bled to death surrounded by people shouting 'Scab! Scab! Scab!'