Two weeks ago I decided to ride my bike to bar trivia(take note I had not had anything to drink yet) since it is so close. I was obviously not wearing a helmet because it was nice out and its Virginia. I was going screaming fast towards an intersection with reckless abandon when out of the corner of my eye I see a car coming from the right doing the same thing. Since they seem to have no intention of stopping or seeing me at all I made the quick decision to slam on my brakes on my bike. Now a bike is a lot like a car when you slam on the brakes. You keep moving and the car or bike stops. The difference in a car is you have a seatbelt which stops you from flying forward most of the time. On a bike, the bike stops and you keep moving. So I was thrown off my bike. The car schreeched on their brakes as soon as they figured out what was going wrong. I went flying off my bike and onto the ground where I did a tactical roll and came up somehow completely unscathed. This is definitely the first time I have done something where I could have been terribly hurt and wasn't. I just got back on my bike, rebent the handle bars so they were facing the normal way (when I was thrown off they got flipped to face 90 degrees the wrong way) and went to trivia where I got most of the answers wrong.
After trivia I got back on the horse (bike) and rode home. This time I had been drinking but definitely not intoxicated. Nothing exceptional happened on my way home and I was pretty happy about that. When I got home I played with my dog with his rope toy. He was full of energy so it was a great time. One time I had the rope toy and brought it close to me forcing him to pull back hard. He ended up bringing his head up into my chin slamming my teeth together. My roomate thought he heard something snap or break but I felt fine. Then I realized that one of my front teeth were chipped. Good old dog, always there to help out. I was fine other than it being really sharp.
So I survived to accidents that had potential to be really bad, with no real injuries to show from it. I have knocked on wood about 1000 times in writing this post, let's hope it works.
