moon_is_playing_tricks said:
Hey, how many of you used to swing on the swing set in grade school and sing:
One for the money
two for the show
three to get ready,
and after the three to get ready, let go of the swing and fly through the air to land on the ground while saying "FOUR TO GO!"?
Uh... I did and I think I flew up too high and landed on my head.
It's amazing my brain still functions normally.
Moonie 
we used to just jump off the swings without warning (instead of singing before), but some kid broke his leg once so the lunch aides would give you a detention if you jumped...
anyone got any bicycle stories? i've got a few...
--i hit a squirrel on my bike once, i SWEAR i completely rode over it's back, because it looked like i flattened it...but it was fine, and ran off to the otherside of the road as if nothing had happened...me, i ended up in a ditch...
--i was riding around while trying to carry a small radio with one hand, and my shoelace got tangled around the pedal. i fell off the bike and landed in the street, throwing the radio forward. the radio skidded about 15 feet, but it didn't stop playing...it still works now, and since then it's been kicked down the stairs, fallen (or flown depending on which occasions) of a golf cart, had an entire glass of milk thrown into the speaker, fallen off tables, dresers, beds, any furniture it could have fallen off of...
--when i was about 12, a friend of mine had this dirt pile at his house, and a bunch of us would ride our bikes over to his house on a regular basis and spend hours using the dirt pile as a ramp. so one day we were all teasing this kid about liking some girl up the street, and while i was in mid air, i came up with some kind of stupid rhyme-thing making fun of him, but since i wasn't paying attention to where my bike was going to land, i had twisted the handle bars so that the front tire was perpendicular to the back tire, instead of being in line with each other...so instead of riding forwards after hitting the ground, i hit the ground and STOPPED, comepltely flipping over and flying into the ditch (there was a ditch they you'd land in if you jumped and then didn't stop soon enough)...needless to say the joke went from being on my friend about the girl up the street to my inability to do two things at once...
--this is fairly recent: i was riding from my dorm to the dining hall. the campus' physical plant department has done a pretty good job at blocking off places where they don't want cars driving, and it was dark, so instead of trusting any possibly impaired depth perception (due to the fact that it was dark), i decided to ride across this grassy area instead of slow down and squeeze between a large flower planter and a post...but, since it was dark outside, i didn't see that there was a chain blocking people like me from riding their bikes across the grass...so what did i do? i collided with the chain...fortunetly i didn't completly flip over the front of my bike, i just landed on the handlbars...
and i've had tons of other crashes that don't have much in the way of stories...
i'm really surprised i didn't get injured after appointing myself official test driver of the laundry basket/skateboard mobile...this was a laundry basket that some friends and i nailed to a skateboard and then procceeded to ride down a hill...
I am a walking disaster. 
I am SUCH a klutz! Last weekend I had a bandaid on each thumb. I cut one of them with a knife while I was washing it, and I think I accidentally cut the other with a razor! Ow!
I wear size 5 1/2...What's my excuse? 
