Car, meet PJ's face
May. 5th, 2009 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonIn another of my moments of stunning (get it?) grace, I slipped and went face first into the grill of the roommate's car (heavy Dodge).
I was on my way out to my own car this morning to go to work when I stepped wrong in the little drainage channel that runs at the edge of the lawn next to the driveway. This channel was put there to prevent this patch of lawn from flooding, but it's tripped more than one of us up over the years. This time I was the (really) unlucky one. I went down faster than an extremely fast thing.
Fortunately, I broke the fall with my face and armpit. :-/ Must have been reaching out to break the fall, but missed, so my cheek and my pit hit the steel frame at the edge of the hood, then I bounced and hit the ground. All faster than an extremely fast thing.
All things considered, and despite the horrible mind pictures, I'm not in bad shape. Badly scraped knees, lots of bruises and very sore muscles, but I'm still apple-cheeked. Literally. My right cheek resembles an apple. Okay, okay, maybe not that bad. Maybe just half of an apple. I've been icing it, taking it easy, took some aspirin, but I didn't break anything.
I'm not sure if this tops the time (about five years ago) when I hydroplaned on my flooded kitchen and wound up with a goose egg on my forehead. Quite possibly. At least this time it was the other side of my head that took the blow. Wouldn't want my brain hemispheres to be uneven, after all.
ETA: Apparently, the Terminator Takeover has begun. What else explains this sudden hostility of the machines?
I was on my way out to my own car this morning to go to work when I stepped wrong in the little drainage channel that runs at the edge of the lawn next to the driveway. This channel was put there to prevent this patch of lawn from flooding, but it's tripped more than one of us up over the years. This time I was the (really) unlucky one. I went down faster than an extremely fast thing.
Fortunately, I broke the fall with my face and armpit. :-/ Must have been reaching out to break the fall, but missed, so my cheek and my pit hit the steel frame at the edge of the hood, then I bounced and hit the ground. All faster than an extremely fast thing.
All things considered, and despite the horrible mind pictures, I'm not in bad shape. Badly scraped knees, lots of bruises and very sore muscles, but I'm still apple-cheeked. Literally. My right cheek resembles an apple. Okay, okay, maybe not that bad. Maybe just half of an apple. I've been icing it, taking it easy, took some aspirin, but I didn't break anything.
I'm not sure if this tops the time (about five years ago) when I hydroplaned on my flooded kitchen and wound up with a goose egg on my forehead. Quite possibly. At least this time it was the other side of my head that took the blow. Wouldn't want my brain hemispheres to be uneven, after all.
ETA: Apparently, the Terminator Takeover has begun. What else explains this sudden hostility of the machines?