Some people are meant to just sit still.

[changeyourstars8]

I'm pretty sure I'm one of them.

Chris and I went out with a couple of friends today to ride four-wheelers. I've been on one once before, about a year and a half ago, and only as a passenger. So today, after we've gone around the field a few times, Chris asks me if I want to learn to actually drive one. I say sure.

It was a standard, which should've tipped me off, because standards and I do not get along. At all. After I killed it a couple of times by letting out on the clutch too slow and giving it too little gas, Chris-- who was sitting behind me-- tells me to give it more gas. I did. And I also let go of the clutch way too fast.

We went vertical.

So all of a sudden I'm riding a wheelie and absolutely certain I'm going to flip the thing over, and miracle of miracles that doesn't happen, but once all four wheels touch again I realize I don't know where the brakes are and hold on a minute, wasn't Chris sitting behind me?

I look back; he's on the ground. The four-wheeler is slowing way down by this point so I jump off to see if he's okay, and the machine has enough momentum still going to hit my foot and knock me down, running over my leg. That was when it decided to stop.

I ran over my own leg. How sad is that?

Chris was fine, just startled. He got the four-wheeler off my leg and I got up to make sure I still could. Once Eric saw we were fine, he started laughing so hard I thought he was going to rupture something.

My knee is a little bit out of whack . . . I can walk fine, but if I lean a certain way it hurts really bad, so I'm going to put some ice on it and shake my head at myself some more.

My one consolation is that I'm going to figure out a way to put this in a novel.

Comments

[that-evening.livejournal.com]

That sounds like something that would happen to me! *hugs* I am glad you are okay!

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only klutz around, then. ;-) Thanks!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, Stephanie, I'm glad you're not DEAD. Geez, that sounds horrifying.

But you ran over your foot. That's kind of awesome.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Yeah . . . for a few minutes I was just doing the whole "Oh wow we're all alive and there are no broken bones yay" hysterical laughter. Then I told Chris that I was never ever driving one of those again. LOL

That's kind of awesome.

Agreed. At least I got a fun party story out of the deal. :-D

[finniscs.livejournal.com]

yes but did your life flash before your eyes? did everything seem to be happening in slwo motion? yiiiikes. Im glad youre okay. those things scare me to death!

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Actually, everything seemed to be happening reallyreally fast. And I don't think my life flashed before my eyes, but when the four-wheeler tilted back into the wheelie I do remember thinking, "Hey I've still got stories to finish so you touch back down right now." LOL

[jadelynx.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but once I got to the point that you guys were okay, I couldn't stop laughing and crying. I had to come back an hour after I read the story so I could type. That is just so funny. :D

How's the leg feeling today?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Hee. About the same as it was yesterday-- I can walk, just have to be careful which way I lean.