Acting like a 14 year old and realising you are 34! or “I have no problem with growing old, it’s growing up I have an issue with”
As many of you know from reading this blog I have bought a BMX, so I have been enjoying myself, throwing myself off curbs and learning its weight, balance etc
So today I went to the supermarket to buy something for tea and a few beers, on the way I decided to try bunny-hopping my bike, worked fine for many times until I slipped off the right-hand peddle.
Now let me explain, the peddles have 2 mm long metal stubs on them to give you extra grip….. well if you slip off the peddle and it gourges into your shin, they aren’t for grip, they turn into a WMD 
So I now have 5 nice gourges up my right shin, bleeding and reminding me…. YOU ARE NOT FUCKING FOURTEEN, ACT YOUR AGE!!
Ha! Peddle rash!
Stories used to go around about cheap Rat Trap copies where you’d spin back, slam the pedal into your shin and the studs would come out and embed themselves in the bone. I think it was just an urban legend, though.
I got a back-pedal brake in the end, so at least I couldn’t spin back and do it. My dad had to go and A&E the last time he borrowed my BMX, bless him.
Comment by handolio — 18th January @ 4:40 pm