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A few weeks ago I rode my bike into a tree and bloodied my elbow. I was trying to take a picture and not stop at the same time. Bad move.
I also fell off my bike at the beginning of the summer when a crotchety old man yelled at me to "walk the bike" on the path near a historic site. I didn't know the sidewalk was also historical, but I slowed down anyway. Apparently, the slowing down of a person on a fixed gear bike is not fast enough so he barked at me again (now behind me), "WALKIT!" I was so startled that I turned a bike and jumped in my seat, just enough to yank the bike to one side and get my foot trapped in the pedal's straps. I pretty much just stopped and fell over very slowly. I half expected somebody next to me to yell, "Timmmmmmmberrrrrr!"
Plus, of course, this happened while I was at work and my knee decided to swell up and cause me to limp. I had people coming in and out of my office looking at me pitifully and the safety officer had to do paperwork for DAYS thanks to me.
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
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