Last night we were watching the 100 m sprint. I said to Frank & Theresa, “That’s what I want to do. I don’t want to do any marathon. Those are too slow. I want to run really fast like that.” We watched the Jamaican who won the gold celebrate his achievement.
“I can run like that.”
“No, you need long legs,” Frank said. We all have abnormally short legs.
“Nah. All I need are those gold Pumas like he has,” I tell Frank. I then get up off the couch. My intent is to run as fast as I can from the living room into the dining room, just to show them how fast I can run. A thought shoots through my head that this might not be the wisest thing to do, considering my slowly healing foot ligament but I toss the thought aside.
As I put my foot down on the floor, it slips out from under me and I land on the floor. Hard. Damn, I knew it was a bad idea cleaning today! I think I was rolling on the floor, laughing hysterically for about 5 minutes before I could calm myself enough to get up and sit back on the couch. Theresa & Frank are asking me if I’m okay. Did I hurt anything. I start laughing again & lift up my left arm. “My wrist.”
Don’t worry. It’s fine. But I am rather disappointed that it seems I won’t ever be a sprinter.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm Quote
No sprinters here either. I, the human torso, married the original human torso, and our children stand no chance at having reasonably long legs.
Slappy is so torso-y that he can’t fit into standard cars because when he’s sitting down he’s abnormally tall. His car has a big patch of hair on the roof. Which, when you think about it, is actually really kind of gross.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm Quote
You should keep training, a wrist injury shouldn’t stop your olympic dreams. I should start training for something too, I wonder if they will make typing or channel surfing a sport before I have to join the senior olympics?
August 18th, 2008 at 1:22 am Quote
That settles it…we are definatly related
Hope your wrist and foot are better soon.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:12 am Quote
Did you fall fast?
August 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm Quote
That’s it! Olympic level falling. I’m in.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm Quote
I think it would make a great event for those of us over 40.