Thursday, July 3, 2008

Epic Fail on a Bike

I've been riding my bike to work. Dont'get all crazy and start thinking that I give a crap about the environment or anything, this is just my futile way of trying to save gas money. Also it's a good way for me to get a little extra cardio in, since my diet has been lacking discipline lately.

Anyways today when I was riding home I had to stop and wait for a train to go by. I rode past the line of cars that were also waiting for the train. I have those shoes that the pedals kind of clip-in to, and you have to pop your shoes out of the pedals when you want to put your feet down. So I meandered my way up to the front of this long line of cars right up by the train, I popped my left foot out and put it down. While I was standing there, I noticed that my chain was kind of weird so with one foot unclipped and the other still stuck to the pedal I tried to do that move where you sort of pick my bike up and crank forward. Here's where I sort of lose my balance and started stumbling and bouncing around for a second before falling over in slow motion toward my clipped-in foot. So now, I'm sitting there on the side of the road, with my bike in between my legs, struggling like an upside down turtle to get my trapped foot under my bike unclipped. I'm laying there on the ground failing around like an idiot, my headphones are flying all over and finally I get my foot loose and free myself from my tangled web and stand back up out of breath from the stuggle and shear humiliation.
As I'm struggling back to my feet, I can't help but look back at the cars who I know just witnessed one of my all time greatest fiascos. There's this guy who's sitting in a semi truck at the front of the line. At worst I expected him to be laughing and at best maybe I'd get a sympathetic smile, but no. What I got was a look of what can only be described as absolute disgust. I don't know, maybe this guy just hates retards. Luckily I don't take myself that seriously, so I was already laughing when I got this look. I couldn't face anymore, so I didn't bother to look past the truck driver to all the cars behind him with a perfect view of me. So I turned back around to stare at the train and pray for it to be over before I could do anything else to make the situation worse. Then I noticed that on the other side of the tracks, even as the train was still going by, I could see on the other side the people in their cars, drivers and passengers alike, all laughing hysterically at me, all the while bobbing their heads, dodging and ducking to see through the gaps in the train to get a better look at my calamity.
While I was sitting there absorbing it all, I kept thinking "Man, I would have killed to be one of the people in those cars." I'm sure I would have told the story for weeks about the guy I saw who just inexplicably fell over while sitting perfectly still on his bike waiting for a train. I am tempted to look on the "Missed Connections," section of Craigslist to see if I won any hearts with my dynamic display of gracelessness.

3 comments:

Kristi and Ryan said...

Very funny! I'm tired of "lol", so I'll make up my own: fgtlshic. (Almost looks like a dirty word). How come you don't post the comments... were you getting a lot of hate mail? ;) love, kc

Psydewayz said...

Well, you weren't supposed to see that story yet. It hadn't been refined! Oh well, I guess that's what I get for publishing early!

No, no hate mail. Yet.

Unknown said...

Wow. I saw someone do something similar to that, and I laughed.

Now I feel bad ;)