How many times in past have you met with an accident, that time was really bad, painful and the worst time ever, but now when you think about it you can’t really stop laughing. Once it so happened that a close family friend met with an accident. Till the doctor said that he is fine (which was by the way 4 hr after he was admitted to the hospital) the situation was very tense. When the doc said he is fine and sleeping the scenario changed courtesy his parents. They came up with so many anecdotes of accidents (of the same genre described above) that all of us couldn’t stop laughing. Finally the nurse had to put her foot down and kick us all out. (Yes even his parents.)
Let me tell you of one such incident. I was in 9th standard. My best friend and me had joined this basketball coaching during the summer vacations (I do miss those vacations now that I am in a job.) From 4 PM to 5:30 PM we had our basketball coaching. Then from 6 PM we had our Tuitions. (Khanna group) This used to take place in my house. It meant that we have to travel some 4 or 5 Km by bicycle in less than ½ hr. That we used to do all the time so not big deal. Now along the full stretch of route that connected the playground to my house there were many speed breaking bumps. Most of them were single bump and some space then another single bump. But there was a stretch where there was a rumble strip bump (or that’s what we used to call it. It is one of those annoying series of equidistant small bumps). What we used to do was, gain speed while coming up to this set of bumps. Jerk the bike at the 1st bump and land at the last one, and in the process reducing the pain of going over it with all the shakes that used to get amplified by the cycle. (Especially after a though workout at the basketball court). This was in a township of BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd.) Hardwar, which is very near to the Rajaji National Forest and so in summers we can see many wildlife coming to the township in search of water.
Back to the true story! One fine day we were coming back from basketball coaching and at that point (rumble strip bump) tried that stunt of ours. (It’s still a slow-motion memory of mine that happened in a split second.)
Speed increased. 1st bump came, gave the by-cycle a upward jerk, the cycle takes off in the air, (of-course I take of with it like one of those ET movies) then I see a fox running perpendicular to me and towards me. I was amused to see that creature thinking of waiting to see it for a while. All of a sudden my cycle stops moving. I look down and see that I have hit that fox while we all (fox, cycle and me) are in air. The cycle came to a stand still. But to my dismay I didn’t stop. I look down towards my cycle and it as doing a summer-salt. I on the other hand was like superman. Flying through the sky, uninterrupted! This thought did strike me and to tell the truth I was really excited. Then I saw the road coming at me with what looked like full speed. I didn’t want to break my hands. (There was a basketball match coming up) so I pull my hands back thinking of what next to do before hitting the ground.
Next what happened was something I believed happened in cartoons only. You must have see Roadrunner and Coyote. As soon as the coyote realizes that it is in air miles above the ground it falls leaving behind a puff of cloud. But till then it does all the stunts like its not in mid air. Same happened with me. It took me fraction of a nanosecond and I was on ground.
I sat down on the road cross-legged and tried to see if I have got hurt. Hands check, legs check, tummy….. It was soaked in blood. I was dead scared. But I wasn’t hurt there. Then my friend told me (to my relief that I am not dying) that it was my chin. And it was a nasty cut. The doctor latter on told me that it was adrenal rush that made that cut numb and I wish I was having the same rush when he put some 5 stitches there.
Then it was accident and now when ever I think of it I can not stop laughing. What was I thinking that I pulled my hands backward?
The mark is still there to remind me of the day…
I would say a 3-D kind of a description, almost like a stepwise animated description...
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Man, I not only laugh at accidents... I laugh when I'm having one.
ReplyDeleteScene one ::> My friend driving the bike at full speed. Comes a dog (sorry, no wildlife here... :( ) He jams the brake and skids to a halt falling off the bike. I on the other hand flew out of my seat flipping twice and summer salting once before I land on the road on my back. I get up laughing!! "Are you crazy jumping of the bike like this??" my friend says... but I enjoyed it.
However, that incident caused me to have some hairline fracture on my spine or something like that... I was not into sports or heavy work for two months upon doctors advice and had terrible back pains regularly.
I had an interesting one
ReplyDeleteScene two: On a rainy day, after the rain stopped, 3 friends on LML scooter, R(Driver), V(First pillion) and me(2nd Pillion) were going to attend a b'day party, Well dressed, Leather shoes polished (In college days we polish then generally twice a year). On the dark lonely road ( no street lights), after a turn ‘R’ didn’t realize that there was a Rickshaw on the same lane. Somehow I come to know that there is something ahead us going in very slow speed, But by the time I communicate this to ‘R’ we was so close that he has to bend his scooter to extreme right... We were now on the bumpy, slippery muddy route and heading toward a tree, I closed my eyes (Nothing better I could do that time) but ‘R’ made a right decision and we finally landed into the muddy patch which is called buffalo’s zone and very commonly seen in Indan towns. That was a bad day for us because we missed our Party as well as our leather shoes were gone. I still used to laugh on that day's moment.
Heartiest Congratulations .......... I hope that this dope is true ;-)
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