I Fell Down On the Running Machine at th e Gym

“I'm such a dork! I was working out at the gym on the Tread Mill and my hand knocked my radio off my clip and it flew across the room. I was running at about 9 or 10 miles per hour, I stupidly decided to STOP and look at where my radio went. All I heard was this aweful Skreech as I was thrown off the machine. I landed flat on my face in the middle of the isle. I looked at all the concerned people, took a bow and grabed my radio. The funniest part was when I realized that I was getting thrown off and tried to catch up with the machine. Just thought I'd share.”

“LMMFAO!!!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I bet that was an experiance!!”

“Ouch”

“Ha Ha”

“yikes...hope you didnt get any boo boo's”

“I did better than that.
In 1982 I was running backwards on an indoor rubber track.
My heel dug in and I tripped and tried to catch myself by accelerating only to fall harder.
Both hands went down as a defensive reaction and I broke both wrists!
That little disaster put me out of truck driving for six weeks.

The Teamsters Local paid me $125/week....about 25% of normal but kept me from starving.

It was extremely painful and I couldn't even operate a zipper for a few days.
Lucky for me I had a wife to assist!~~~~@%^>”

“Thanks fer the laugh.

Glad you're OK!”

“LOL! It takes some guts and a really good sense of humor to laugh at yourself like that!

Mebbe we need a getting in shape for getting in shape thread...”

“I gave it up for a while in the '80s, but guitar playing keeps the arthritis at bay......so far!”

“I always have this kinda remote fear of something like that happening. Thanks for proving IT CAN!!! Dork indeed!!! lol!!!!!

I saw an old guy the other morning drop something (an envelope) from the book he was reading and he pushed the stop button to stop the belt before the envelope disappeared. I was watching in horror, fully expecting him to crash. But it stopped and he didn't. Thank goodness!”

“wow. one of my greatest fears. I do interval training on the treadmill because I can bettter regulate my heart rate. There is always a twinge of concern as I am pounding along at a 12.5 degree incline at 10.5 mph that I am just gonna go flying into space. I worry about being tooo tired reach the controls and rachet down the speed at the end of the interval and getting trapped on it!”

“I tried to cross the street on my bike, I hoped the curb, started to cross the sreet, the light changed and I was just hoping the next curb before the SUV's started roaring towards me, when my back tire caught the curb and I couldn't get out of my clipless peddles, and I fell on my back still connected to my bike, right in the road. I scrambled out of my peddles, through my bike up on the side walk, and jumped out of the way before some soccer mom in a Ford Expedition ran over me while talking on her mother scratchen Cell phone, SOB, mother freakin damn it all!”

“i was splitting wood yesterday and did not split a single stitch! boo-ya!!”

“Nice!”

“hmm.... to clarify, i split alot of wood, just no sutures.”

“When I was about fourteen, I crashed my bicycle solidly into a parked car. Totaled the bike?s frame. Did a number on my head too. It was 5am, dark, cold and raining at the time and nobody was around to see what happened. I woke up in some bushes. I picked up my bike and walked home.”

“Sweet!”

“Thin Air pulled what my friends and family refer to as a "pammy". I hope only your ego was wounded! LOL! Thanks for sharing.”

“You know the area, Tarpie. It was in the neighborhood near the intersection of Viers Mill and Randolph roads. I tried to ride the bike home, but it wouldn?t go and I couldn?t figure out why. I was too out of it to see that the frame was mangled.”

“Yeah I do know that area very well, good old Rockville!”

“remember these words of wisdom Tarp
"don't go back to Rockville . . .and waste another year"”

“tick tock tick tock . . .didja gettit yet? Huh HUH HUH?????








(DON'T GO BACK TO) ROCKVILLE by REM

Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long

Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and
That's not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long”

“lol Tarp Rat,
Been there myself. The other day I was in the middle of a ride and the people I was with decided they wanted to stop. When I stopped I only unclipped my left foot and proceded to fall right. I kew I couldn't do anything so I just hung on for the ride.”

“heh, heh
Reminds me of that Beavis & Butthead episode where they won a free trial membership at the health club and took turns rocketing each other off the treadmill and into the wall.”

“I'm not hurtin or nothin, I just thought it was funney.

Anouther stupid thing I did was in 6th grade. I was riding my new mountain bike to school when I thought I'd show off to some kids. I poped a wheely at about 15 mph. While I was riding it, my front wheel fell off. I guess I hit the breaks and the front fork dove streight into the pavement, I went flying over the handle bars. I landed on my head, and don't remember much after that. My helmet was cracked and my eye was swolen. Someone had loosened the quick release on the wheel. I'm all good though.”

“Here's George Jettson!!!”

“lol, now that would be funny to see.”

“thinair, i hope you're not a pilot.”

“Rockville, Rockville......
I was a letter carrier at the Pike Station '72--'74 Rollins Ave and Rockville Pike.
The traffic there was a mess back then!
White Trash Mall wasn't even there!
And you mutton-heads are ridin' bikes around there?
Why don't you just join the Marine Corps?

radagast got stiches?
Did you get your thang fixed or somethin'?”

“No, just a student. I'm gonna teach highschool US history in a couple of years. I might coach track or X country too.”

“umm, i'm not sure which "thang" you're referring to, but it's probably not the right one.”

“Right now I'm a Fuel Associate. (Gas Station Attendant)LOL”

“i was just teasing you mr mishap... err.... thinair.”

“hmm a future handle (MrMishap)”

“null”

“or maybe (Fallen)”

“I did something like that bike trick too ThinAir.

I was riding on a pretty muddy dirt road and got a big mud glob thrown on my glove. When I got to the paved road I got the brilliant idea of using the spokes on the front wheel to clean it off. I leaned over the handlebars and let my fingers go thwup, thwup, thwup against the spokes. Well, you guessed it, they got caught in there, did the full revolution and stopped at the forks, causing the bike to stop short and pitching me face first into the pavement.

My eye was so swollen, the doctor was sure I'd broken my ocular bone but the x-rays showed I didn't break anything. I haven't been quite right since (no wait, I was a bit touched before that).”

“I haven't fell down on the tread machine yet, but I fall down on the trail all the time. So I bought some biking gloves, the ones with the fingers cut out and padded in the palm area. Boy, they have been a life saver on my hands. Refuse to wear knee pads, I would rather have the scares (battle wounds) on my knees. It gives me something to talk about at work.”

“White Trash Mall! Ha. I never heard that one. I used to call it the Elitist Mall. I was a kid when they built it. I certainly did ride my bike there. How the hell else is a kid going to get around?”

“Actually White Trash Mall is more appropriate for White Marsh Mall NE of Baltimore.

There were those who refered to Landover Mall as "Black Flint Mall" though.
Fooooooor shame! =8^(O

WOW!
What a great thread.
Injuries are always good for a hoot!

In early April I was crossin' a creek in the Smoky Mtn N P and I planted my six-foot pole, said to myself, "self, that rock looks real slippery, watch it!".
I slammed that rock sooo fast I didn't know what hit me!
I might as well have been blind!
My arm bashed the rock and I bruised my ribs too!
I was wet to the knees and finished the day in sandals.”

“I can't even remember how young I was, 3 yrs old maybe when I looked into a Clorox bottle to see if it was empty, it wasn't.”

“Ouch!”

“Yep, it ended in a hospital run. I don't have 20/20 vision today, and I wonder if it's from that.”

“any new additions to the list?”

“you can imagine what it looked like but i've done it. my music turned off for some reason and i looked down to see i had pulled my headphones out of the thing and i stopped to put it back in. duhhh, it was after almost an hour if that makes me look a little less stupid.”

“Wow thats a old school thread!

8p”

“Sometimes I get going pretty good on the treadmill. I do short intervals of walking, a slow jog and then basically running or sprinting. Sometimes I'm almost hanging on the sides with my arms, legs dragging, when I try to take the MPH back down to the slow jog. Am waiting to get sucked under the treadmill belt some day and come out looking like Wile E. Coyote after a steam roller accident. :-)”

“LMFAO!!!!!!

8D”

“don't you hate trying to hit the slow down button while trying to keep up (espescially when you've worked your way to the back half of the treadmill)? some times it seems it would be better to hit the stop button but then you loose all the info that the machine has been tracking for you.”

“There was a Bevis & Butthead epso where they were in the gym and Bevis got on the treadmill and Butthead said "Warp speed"and Bevis crashed into the wall very funny stuff!

8)”