THE ACCIDENT!!!
Well, my friends, I am at the ER — emergency room. ?
To say the least, this day has clearly taken a turn for the worst. You see, today I got the chance to go horseback riding, which ... View MoreTHE ACCIDENT!!!
Well, my friends, I am at the ER — emergency room. ?
To say the least, this day has clearly taken a turn for the worst. You see, today I got the chance to go horseback riding, which is something that I haven't done in quite a while now.
Oh man! What a big mistake that was! I mounted the horse and started out slowly. However, leave it up to me to get a bit cocky and overly-confident. So we started going a little faster, and before I knew what was happening, we were going as fast as the horse could possibly go!
Obviously, I started to freak out a little, as I suddenly realized my mistake! But it was too late! When I tried to stop the horse, he totally ignored my commands as if he couldn’t even hear me. Maybe he was enjoying the freedom and excitement of the moment. Who knows.
Or maybe he had simply gotten spooked by something. Whatever the case may be, the horse was definitely out of control! Thinking quickly, I determined that my only option was to try to jump off of the horse.
That turned out to be another bad decision on my part. In the process of jumping off of the horse, wouldn’t you know it, my foot got caught in the stirrup. Yeah, big ouch!
So there I am being dragged by that crazy horse, and the darn thing just refused to stop! In fact, each time that I screamed at him to stop, the horse just went faster! It was like he was suddenly possessed!
Except for one thing, I certainly would have wound up a dead man. Thankfully, just in the nick of time, as I was losing consciousness, the manager at the Toys-R-Us came out of his office, quickly sized up the situation, and unplugged the machine … and not a minute too soon!
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A much more simplified version of the above story/joke was posted on another friend’s Facebook timeline. Being a writer myself, I beefed it up a bit to make it more interesting — and to pull the reader along — and I also made some grammatical improvements to it as well.
Even in its original form as posted by my friend, I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Thus, I wrote the following long comment to them:
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Ha! You got me … all the way to the very last sentence! ?
It actually reminded me of a REAL accident I had as a kid when I lost control of my bicycle as a friend and I were going down a steep, bumpy, pothole-filled road about half a mile from home.
I was so light and thin that I was unable to apply enough pressure to the brake.
Thus, my bike was speeding down the hill when I fell off. BUT, my shirt got stuck in the wheel; and so the bike was literally dragging me down the hill as my head bounced on the asphalt road.
I was dazed and a bloody mess on this low-traveled road. My bicycle-riding companion was probably freaked out.
Thankfully, a Good Samaritan eventually came driving down the hill, put me in the back seat of his car — which I bloodied up — and drove me to the hospital where I received 40 stitches in my head, and had back injuries as well.
That was one time in my young life when God spared my life, despite my own foolishness and disobedience to my parents.
You see, if I recall correctly, both of my parents had to go out that day, and I had been instructed to remain home.
Well, my friend came around and asked me to go bike-riding with him … which I did. Boy did I pay the price that day!
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And that, my friends, is a TRUE story from my early life while living outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA during the 1960s.
