About two months ago Ryan and Jessica told me they saw an accident. They said that a man was driving fast on his motorbike and was hit by a car (or ran into a car or something with a car...right Ryan, Jess?). They said the guy flew off his motorbike and hit a tree in the median. Seconds later they said the man popped up, got back on his crashed bike and rode off. I took this story with a grain of salt...until yesterday.
Yesterday I was resting in the pool, trying to catch my breath, while surveying the insane sea of people. At the time there must have been at least sixty people in and around the not-so-big pool. As I was watching everyone, I saw a teen -- probably around 18 -- sprint out of the locker room towards a group of his friends. Generally in the states we have signs around pools that say "No Running" because well, the tile can be really slippery. Well the tile at this pool is definitely slippery. The teen ran about fifteen feet and then WIPED OUT HARDER THAN I HAVE EVER SEEN ANYONE WIPE OUT. The kid was probably two feet off the ground with his body almost completely parallel with the floor. His head came crashing down first and from thirty feet away I could hear the THUD. My heart skipped a beat and I literally felt nauseous. I was about to jump out of the pool when the kid jumped to his feet, quickly rubbed his head, and then continued to run to his friends. His friends laughed at him, hit him on the head, and then ran across the tile back towards the locker room with him.
I have never seen anyone bounce up from anything so obviously painful. If that was me, well, I would have gone to the hospital. Yeah, Vietnamese people are built differently.
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Wonder what the CAT scan or MRI would have shown - wonder if he is around today - wonder if he'll run next time...
As I can verify from my bathroom tiled slide experience in Laos, wet tile can be veeeeeeeeeery slippery.
remind me of the time you cut your friend off on his bike, he flipped over the handlebars, and got up like a stud, and kept biking.
That guy hit a bump and lost control, flew into the median, bounced off a tree in the median, and landed with his head under a car going other way. The car stopped, the man got up and was visibly shaken, picked up his bike, and rode off. I don't remember if he was wearing a helmet.
Check out this video and see how men in general are tough guys:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=rorbv0RWrbk&user=Pepsi
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