First Road Crash-With a Mailbox

[lph]

I'm laughing really hard at this vision. I'm glad you're ok.

Yah, me too *snort*

Very nice writing!

[Zen]

For some reason the thing I feel most bad about is you stepped on your muffin

[Grog]

We need a new forum:

"Crazy Mailboxes."

Really glad you're okay!!!

[tulip]

Wow, great write-up. I got taken out by a No Parking sign. I KNOW I shouldn't have been riding on the sidewalk, but such action was a bit drastic.

[SouthernBelle]

Evil Mailbox

[indigoiis]

I bet that mailbox is warning all the other mailboxes "if ya see that chick, get out of the WAY!"

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

For some reason the thing I feel most bad about is you stepped on your muffin

Me too.

Glad you weren't badly hurt!

[kelownagirl]

Glad you're ok.

My one and only 'accident" was running into a parked car. I was tired after a tough climb and my head was down. D'uh...

[TahoeDirtGirl]

Oh I'm perfectly fine. Just a bruised ego. I hope no one got a pic of it. No, I must say, I just know how to wreck. Tuck and roll. I have no idea. That's the funny thing, one minute I'm going-wow I'm loving this morning...and then..crash.

I think my early years being thrown off of horses and falling out of trees is paying off. Plus the extra pounds pad my hips when I fall.

SO I'm getting ready to make the return ride home. I think I'm going to get on google maps and find an alternate route. Because if I drive by that mailbox and someone is outside scratching their head on why it's moved a little out of the ordinary, I'm gonna laugh. I can see the little grouping of neighbors now..."someone said a girl hit it on a BIKE"...yeah. Hi. That would be me.

But on the upside I did spy a pick your own blueberry farm, and two or three more 'honesty farm stands' (self serve) and a farm stand that I have stopped at before but nothing was in season. So this time if I hit something, produce will abound from the Wald baskets.

Was a little worried about the laptop. But it's been working well. The muffin was in good form, only a little smooshed, just alot of grease on stuff from me fixing my chain. Oh and my lunch bag had little pebbles in it. haha. I made everyone's day here with my road rash elbow.

[Crankin]

What kind of muffin????

[coyote]

too funny! Great story. Glad you, the bike, muffin and laptop are all ok.

[newfsmith]

There is nothing like running into a stationary object to make you feel stupid. I know from experience, I ran into a parked car. Of course, I had the fun of going to work for a week with 2 black eyes and sutures in my lip, so I had to explain what happened to everyone that came into the office. That really makes you feel stupid. I'm so glad you didn't have to go through that.

[TahoeDirtGirl]

What kind of muffin????

Blueberry cRUMb. Heavenly. They bake it at this little bakery on the way to work in the middle of nowhere.

I hit every farmstand I could find. I had no room but I somehow found it.

I hear you on the parked car. I remember hearing about someone in the Bay area that had hit a parked car that was parked in a bike lane and I couldn't understand how he didn't see it. Now. I know. It would be so easy not to expect it to be there and totally absorbed. I think this accident taught me to pay attention more. Trust me, I was paying attention on the ride home!

My wrist and shoulder are now starting to ache, so Advil and ice is on the menu before bed

[emily_in_nc]

Glad you're (basically) ok, tahoe! Nothing worse than having someone see you crash, either....

I came close to having a similar crash on a club ride a couple of years ago. A guy riding quite a ways ahead of me stopped (for some reason) on the edge of the road, but still on it. He probably should have pulled off the road completely, but did not. I must not have been looking very far ahead (my bad), maybe looking at my computer or something, and all of a sudden I had to swerve quickly to avoid plowing right into him. Quite scary. I am SO glad I managed to avoid that crash as it would have been pretty darn uncomfortable. You just don't expect people to stop on the road in front of you, but still, like with motor vehicles, a crash would have been my fault/responsibility.

Hope you'll heal up fast! And the muffin sounds yummy!

[Grog]

I hit every farmstand I could find. I had no room but I somehow found it.

If you keep hitting farmstands as well as mailboxes you'll need a lot more Advil. Be careful out there.

On our ride last weekend there were lots of signs for CRAB, LOCAL CLAMS AND SCALLOPS and so forth. I almost stopped but I don't know what a crab would have felt like in the back pocket of my jersey...