Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Bruises and lessons !

The basketball court attracted me today, like it never had before. Felt myself pulled to the court to play and was playing good ! (better than I usually do ... finally, I thought, I was getting the hang of the game).

I fell, no I didn't lose my footing and I don't recall being pushed .. but I fell .. some fancy unconscious moves and suddenly my body turns on the axis and my palms hit the floor ... bam !

Lesson No. 1: Basketball is a contact sport
Lesson No. 2: Think before you play basketball on a Tar Road surface, the rocks scratch real hard. The palms of my hands are badly bruised up
Lesson No. 3: My reflexes are still ok !

Post the first aid .. couldn't find anything to get over the shock so went off for a jog, treated myself to a nice dinner at IKEA and visited Raka at the hospital getting the infected screw (implant) in his right leg treated.

Raka got describing his accident 2 years back where he was on a mobike on the Mehruli Road in Delhi and doing a 110 (kms not miles) in the middle of the night and out of nowhere this man pushing a cart crosses the road ... wham .. he hits the cart !

He is lying in the pool of blood, no help from the cart wallah (he ran back and left the cart in the middle of the road the moment he saw the bike) and no help from the cars crossing (dilli walon ka dil .. right!). He finally did get some help from some other bikers on the road but it was chilling the way that he described his helmet breaking into two, he not being able to move his leg and him seeing the cars whiz past without stopping.

What would I have done .. I don't know ! I really don't know .. !

Coincidence ... reading about something similar in this blog today.

1 comment:

How do we know said...

when r u posting again?