It is a shock to me that I am still alive to write this.
Do any of you know Bath well?


I forget the name of it, but there's a big hill on one side of the town, it has a main road on it with, houses all down one side of the road, and a blind bend at half way down the hill.


It's a fun road to drive on.


It is not a fun road when, after an afternoon in The Hobgoblin then a late night in T's (or TJ's, I forget which, and I don't know if it is even there anymore) you find yourself sitting in a shopping trolley saying to your friends, 'Go on, let go, it'll be fun, I'll be fine'


In my defence, I did have some thoughts of safety...I made them launch me from the left hand side of the road so I would be travelling WITH the traffic...


Two cars went past me on the other side of the road before I drifted across, heading at high speed towards the blind bend on the wrong side of the road. I would go head on into the next car that came round the corner.


I panicked


I leant as hard as I could to the right, tipped the trolley over, missed smashing my head on the curb by what felt like millimetres, skidded on my side to a stop and clambered to the path, scraped and bleeding and shaking as (and the rest of this is what was relayed to me later, I didn't see any of it)


A black BMW came round the bend at speed, flying through the spot where I had been laying split seconds earlier, coming through the gap between me half up on the curb and the skidding trolley that had just crossed back into the other side of the road.


Followed by a speeding police car.


We can only assume that the police car didn't see me or was too intent on chasing the BMW.


Fuck me, I've scared myself just remembering that.


Worst thing I have ever done.


By far.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 10:04, 3 replies)

i know bath
and that must have hurt
well done
( zulu eh?, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 10:15, closed)

Yeah,
It did.

I'm just glad it was cold night and I had layers of clothes and a leather jacket on.

Had it been the middle of summer and I'd been in shorts and a T-shirt it would have been a lot worse.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 11:03, closed)

Jesus!!!
Nice one, mate!!!
( SpankyHanky, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 11:11, closed)