"When you're on the ice, you have very little time,
you see very little, and everything happens really quick."
-- Steve Yzerman
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"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."
-- E. W. Howe
"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk,
my first instinct is to laugh.
But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me.
Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
-- Jack Handy, "Deep Thoughts, With Jack Handy"
I wish I had a cool story to explain how I slipped and fell on the ice -- that I got tripped in the Winter Olympics speed skating finals, or didn't land my 450 in the half pipe or fully rotate my quadruple salchow. Hell, I'd settle for tripping over my curling broom for Chrissakes.
But I don't have a cool story.
I was simply walking across the parking lot at the pool, and my foot slid on some ice, and I fell ass-over-teakettle and hit the ground. I dropped like a rock. Hard.
It happened so fast. I was up, and then I was down, although I did have a momentary slow-motion awareness that "this can't end well" before I hit the wet, icy pavement.
It hurt.
The good thing is, nothing's broken.
I have a significant bruise on my hip, my wrist is extremely stiff and I have minor contusions on my arm and elbow.
I'll live.
But the judges are gonna have some major deductions.
