Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A librarian in the gym...

it isn't pretty. We are meant for reading not running...

This is a the story of the time:
I fell off a stationary bike
enjoy:


It was my Sophomore year of college and I journeyed to my college's sport complex to get in a work out. And by work out, I mean ride the stationary bike, use an elliptical and use the row machine.

I started with the bike because it is my favorite. I could bike for hours.

So I throw the ole' headphones around the noggin (They were the wrap around the back of the neck kind) press play on the IPOD and got-a-cycling! 


I failed to do two things, check my shoelaces and untangle my headphones.

Bad looks. 


As I pedal, the laces of my left shoe begin to twirl around the pedal. This tightens my laces but I am only a minute into my 'ride' so I fail to notice the tightening of my shoe...

Then as I pedal down my right leg, my left knee slips into a knot in my headphone wire...

BAM!

What happened you asked?

As I began to pedal down with my left leg, it brought my head with me. (Remember the headphones were around the back of my head)

I slammed my head into the display,

But oh no it didn't stop there.



The momentum from my pedaling was still in control. I fell off the left side of the bike.
But my shoe was so tight when I started to fall it caught me -MID AIR-
 

Causing me to dangle helplessly.
 

I could not get my foot out of the shoe because it was so tight.

As my head finally hits the ground I look back and see the people on the treadmills miss a step, trying to see what calamity was going on beside them.

The attendant, is truly too confused to react - until she bursts out in laughter



I finally widen my shoe enough to finish falling to the ground.


By now the entire room is silent, staring...

"Did that just happen?" - YEP

I re-tied my shoe, took the knots out of my headphones and hopped back on because what the hell else should I have done? 
-leggo-


~Brother

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