Embarrassing InjuriesSometimes your mind isn't quite on the job in hand, the throes of passion get, well, passionate and something goes painfully wrong. Ok, so you wouldn't tell your mates how you got injured, but you can tell us... we won't laugh. Much.
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rob, Thu 2 Sep 2004, 10:25)
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A different sort of 'embarrassing injury.'I remember once watching a documentary on hideous skiing accidents, and particularly remember a woman who had stopped up on the slope to adjust her goggles (or somesuch) and then got hit at 50+ mph by a large German guy. A combination of adrenaline and 'this is my holiday and I'm going to enjoy it' made her stagger on for two days before collapsing, coughing up blood. Off back home for an X-ray and it turned out she'd broken something like twelve ribs.
I happened to be watching it with my sister, who knows skiing. She laughed out loud and I asked why. Sis then explained that stupid woman had broken a very basic rule of skiing, that you do not stop in the middle of a racing slope to adjust your goggles. All the weeks of operations, months off work and years of physiotherapy were entirely her own fault. Not only that, but being middle class and obviously clever, she just could not accept, and was having a hard time even entertaining the possibility, that the accident was her fault.
I've hated skiing and skiers ever since.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2004, 0:54, Reply)
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