SchadenfreudeThere's nothing like administering first aid to cyclist who has just spanged into the back of a milk float when you have tears of laughter running down your face. The world is just one long episode of You've Been Framed - when have you laughed at the misfortune of others?
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Bicycle accidentsAnother bicycle accient for the file.
About 10 years ago, I went on a date with a man I met over the internet. It didn't go all that well, and he never called again, which was fine by me. However, that wasn't to be our last meeting; oh no. That would have been too painless.
About six months later I'm seeing someone else, and he takes me round to meet his friend. We meet at her house, and hang out for a while. Then, her husband came home. The husband she had three children with. The husband who... I had been on a date with about six months' previous. The same guy who was supposedly single and childless. Oy.
I don't say anything about it (not really an easy thing to bring up) but he made his excuses and goes out for a bike ride. He was training for a triathalon at the time, and was a pretty serious cyclist. About ten minutes later, there's a phonecall: Mr. Cheating Asshat has ridden into the back of a parked car just around the corner from their house and needs a lift to hospital. His wife didn't drive, so the then-boyfriend and I go to pick him up. He's bleeding from several places on his face, and it looks like he has a broken wrist and possibly a broken ankle.
Now, I try not to take (too much) joy in the misfortunes of others, but in this particular case, I felt somewhat justified in stifling a giggle on the way to A & E. Turned out his wrist was broken and his ankle was badly sprained, so it put the brakes on his triathalon plans.
(, Sat 19 Dec 2009, 20:56, 2 replies)
Very nearly, but he was neither black nor in a highly overpriced SUV.
(, Sun 20 Dec 2009, 5:49, closed)
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