Feel free to laugh

Roastie
Roastie Posts: 1,968
edited March 2009 in Commuting chat
I'm sitting at home today because I had an accident at work yesterday.

While getting massively frustrated with my computer (long story in itself) I sprung up out of my chair, fiddled with the connections on the back of the docking station, and plonked myself down again only to discover that my chair wasn't where I expected it to be.

Apart from crashing into the chair on the way down, I also managed to thump my head on the (brick) wall behind my desk.

I wasn't knocked out, but I was very dizzy after and now have annoying headches. This morning the doc was upset that I'd cycled over to be checked out ("No bike for at least 3 days!"). At least he as impressed with my resting heart rate :D.

Reckon I should wear my helmet at work?
David
Engineered Bicycles

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    That's cheered my afternoon up, nothing like a good giggle over someone else's misfortune.
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • leoccp
    leoccp Posts: 45
    :lol: I cut my head on a tape dispenser at work once :oops: that must have looked amusing in the accident book
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    :lol::lol::lol:
    FCN 7/1
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  • janm399
    janm399 Posts: 132
    Oops! Get well soon!

    Office is a dangerous place, but it is still nothing compared with your own house. Take me. Just before christmas, I was taking the bike down to the cellar in my road shoes. I slipped on the second step from top and slid down on my ass and left thigh. I had a huge staircase rash and I ripped my then new Assos tights!

    The bike was OK, but the bruise on the thigh kept oozing for a couple of days. I now have another battle scar and a patch on the tights.

    I think I should be wearing full armour (and possibly oxygen supply) wherever I go, I am a walking accident magnet :oops:
    Computer geek, Manchester Wheelers' member since 2006
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I did something this morning so embarrassing I can't tell you all otherwise you will, to a (wo)man, end up in casualty with split sides :oops:
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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    :)

    Happy that some good has come of my screaming concussion!

    The worst part of it was that I had just come in from the plant, and so I'd just taken off my hard hat...

    Off to lie in bed now.
    David
    Engineered Bicycles
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    biondino wrote:
    I did something this morning so embarrassing I can't tell you all otherwise you will, to a (wo)man, end up in casualty with split sides :oops:

    Oh, COME ON!

    You can't possible leave that lying there.

    At least give us a hint. A little one. To begin with.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Yeah Biondino, stop being ghey.... MTFU, show some testicular fortitude and make us laugh dang-nabbit!

    Oh and to the OP

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's funny!
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Greg66 wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    I did something this morning so embarrassing I can't tell you all otherwise you will, to a (wo)man, end up in casualty with split sides :oops:

    Oh, COME ON!

    You can't possible leave that lying there.

    Oh I can.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Went for a number 2 at work and forgot to lock the door...?
  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    biondino wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    I did something this morning so embarrassing I can't tell you all otherwise you will, to a (wo)man, end up in casualty with split sides :oops:

    Oh, COME ON!

    You can't possible leave that lying there.

    Oh I can.

    Tease.

    Have a drink... go on.
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  • janm399
    janm399 Posts: 132
    Decided to wear Team GB jersey to cycle to work and got overtaken by a granny on a bike complete with a basket?
    Come on, what can be more embarrassing ;)
    Computer geek, Manchester Wheelers' member since 2006
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    In a Father Ted stylie:

    GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON GO ON
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Funnily enough DDD's comment about testicular fortitude is as near the knuckle (as it were) as I'm going to get :)
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    biondino wrote:
    Funnily enough DDD's comment about testicular fortitude is as near the knuckle (as it were) as I'm going to get :)

    Oooh, nuts in fly zip scenario eh?

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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    Did you decide to see what a Brazilian on a man would look like but then slipped with the scissors?

    Or was it something much simpler like your foot slipped off the pedal and you nadgered yourself on the top tube?
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    biondino wrote:
    Funnily enough DDD's comment about testicular fortitude is as near the knuckle (as it were) as I'm going to get :)

    You went toilet zipped up and caught it or them in the zipper.

    I've done this once... braced myself, clenched every muscle, curled my toes, closed my eyes and quenched my breath and then yanked at that zip... Came back to the office "some time" later with tears in my eyes....
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    A number of instances come to mind

    Nobody told me that using the shower could overload the main circuit board when I first started commuting. Cue me, stuck in a pitch black shower room, fully lathered up, wondering what the hell I'm going to do :shock: Still I took the whole office down with me, which please IT no end when they had to bring the servers back up.

    Our drying room is the boiler room, which is accessed through the office kitchen. Now I usually get changed in the toilets, but one of my colleagues, a rather large irishman, gets changed in the boiler room as it's warmer. Unfortunately there's no lock on the door, and having been confornted by his bare hairy bum once too often I now keep a very close eye on his whereabouts before I collect my kit. I just pity anyone whose in the kitchen when he accidently nudges the door open :shock:

    The guy who sits next to me, always has an M&S pasta meal. coming out of the kitchen just before christmas he tripped and threw his platefull of spaghetti and meatballs straight at me. It was like that scene from Pulp Fiction, it hit the wall behind me, my chair the floor, everywhere, but not a bit touched me :lol:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Damn too late.

    had too many testicle/saddle interfaces when on the MTB to recount them all. Nothing hurts like hitting the saddle on your way down, when the bikes already on it's way back up :shock: :shock: :shock:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • Dudu
    Dudu Posts: 4,637
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... uybrowning
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    Dudu wrote:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2000/apr/22/weekend.guybrowning

    Brilliant!

    My stupid moment this week was particularly numptyish. I was coming home from trying out a bike and was dressed for cycling rather than walking, so I was cold. I decided to run a little to warm up which turned out to be something of a strategic error. As it turns out my depth perception isn't nearly as good when I'm not on wheels and I somehow managed to hit a wheely bin a hard glancing blow on my arm as I charged down the pavement. Cue much swearing and writhing in agony. I was wearing hi-viz too, didn't help at all. :D

    Matthew
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Rich158 wrote:
    Nothing hurts like hitting the saddle on your way down, when the bikes already on it's way back up :shock: :shock: :shock:

    My brother broke his coccyx in these circumstances a few years ago, out on his MTB.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    iain_j wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    Nothing hurts like hitting the saddle on your way down, when the bikes already on it's way back up :shock: :shock: :shock:

    My brother broke his coccyx in these circumstances a few years ago, out on his MTB.

    I've never done anything quite that bad, but on more than one occasion the kids have been left wondering why the old man's rolling arround on the floor again. Not that they ever helped, they'd have to stop laughing to helpt he old man wouldn't they :twisted: :twisted:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • rally200
    rally200 Posts: 646
    More power to Cunobelin's argument for pedestrian helmets :wink:

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