When you wipe out on your bike at 12, you shake it off...

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. Was about that age on my one and only "wipeout"

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Lived about 1 - 1/2 miles from from my school - we used to walk it - me and my 3 siblings, but got a bike around grade 6 or 7.

I got pretty brave on my bike, but unbeknownst to me, a tar truck had come down my home street while I was at school one day, and then the township had spread tiny gravel on it.

Whipped around the corner as usual, hit that new gravel and tar mix, and my bike lost traction -

me sliding down on my left side scraping the hell out of it, and of course ruining my clothing.

In pain, got home -

MOTHER stripped me naked in the yard,

then washed me off with TURPENTINE -

didn't want tar in the house.

and gave me heck for ruining the clothes . . .



CC