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Ed Sidders

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Cleaning junk out of shop , carrying a old 12 hp lawnmower motor to the scrap trailer...Slipped on some sweetgum balls....dropped motor on left foot....broke 3 bones...Figured this would be my last year for serious road trips...looks like a automatic Miata may be in my future...

 
You're only a month older than me, what's all this last year for road trips bs? What's a sweetgum ball? Why were your balls on the floor? Oh, maybe that explains it all!!
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Heal fast.

Al.

 
Cleaning junk out of shop , carrying a old 12 hp lawnmower motor to the scrap trailer...Slipped on some sweetgum balls....dropped motor on left foot....broke 3 bones...Figured this would be my last year for serious road trips...looks like a automatic Miata may be in my future...
Ouch...get a Pontiac Solstice, much more manly than a Miata.

 
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I know a motorcyclist selling a very nice automatic miata, but he's in Cali. Sure would be a nice fly n buy. Good luck on the foot.

 
Here I am feeling sorry for myself because I reached up to shelf earlier tonight and knocked a spray paint can down onto my bare foot. Hurt like a sunovabitch, made a little round purple mark, but nothin's broke.

So you win. Sorry. I'm still gonna cry a little bit, because I just know I'm gonna stub that foot in the dark tonight. Just has to happen!

But shut up about being out for good. Talk about "*******!" (It was there, had to take the swing.)
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Teaching-story time:

My ex-father-in-law dumped his bike in Tennessee when he pulled into a driveway to turn around. He went to put his foot down, and it was one of those driveways with a V slope to allow a shallow ditch to drain across it. Front wheel was up one side of the V and the rear wheel the other, so when he went to put his foot down, it didn't reach, and over it went. Trapped his leg under the pipes (he's a cruiser moron) and cooked a section pretty good, and broke his collarbone. The handlebars got bent way to one side, which he said was good; his bad arm didn't have to reach as far. His friend helped him lift it and he rode anbother 40 miles to reach the hotel. He was 75 at the time.

The foot will heal, and maybe you'll feel the rain coming (if you don't already - hell, I feel it most of the time, and I'm only 55, and never broke anything,) but you'll be back at it before you know it.

 
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Ed,

"Celebrating 60+ Fun Filled Years on 2 wheels"

Sir, I salute you!

Now, heal up and ride again soon.

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Cleaning junk out of shop , carrying a old 12 hp lawnmower motor to the scrap trailer...Slipped on some sweetgum balls....dropped motor on left foot....broke 3 bones...Figured this would be my last year for serious road trips...looks like a automatic Miata may be in my future...
Ouch...get a Pontiac Solstice, much more manly than a Miata.
A solstice is much more manly than a Miata? In my book, thats splitting hairs right there.
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I was expecting a rant about someone in a car. Hope you heal quickly. You got lots of years left to ride. We have a custoomer at the dealership I work for that's 83 and still riding!

 
I know how pissed you gotta be; I'm going in for knee surgery in a few weeks and it's gonna kill at least part of my riding season. Hope we can both be back on two wheels before the snow flies again.

 
I expected a braindead driver rant as well. I seriously hate those sweetgums, and they're dang near immortal. I've cut several down on my property, and they won't give up. Best wishes from your neighbor in Arkansas. Heal quickly.

 
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