The Good News: No broken bones! \o/
The Bad News: All of the ligaments in my ankle are torn, and the doctor just laughed when I asked when I would be able to run and climb and do wushu again. /o\
As I stump around San Francisco in my massively velcroed ambidextrous boot, I have learned some new things from my limited mobility.
The 31 bus, which I had always bypassed in favor of the much farther away but faster and remotely reliable 38L, is super ghetto, but has soul. Black people get on and sing worship songs, tiny wizened old Japanese guys sit next to me and do sudoku puzzles, and people greet one another when they get on. Where else could you see a young Latino boy blasting Riverdance music on his iPod nano?
Of course, ghetto means that more than half of the time the bus smells of urine and that last week a giant black man in a Bruce Lee shirt swore and took a swing at an elderly Latino man in a wheelchair who was just trying to get around him, then tried to kick a tiny Chinese lady as she went by. Who picks on people in wheelchairs and the elderly? Then all of the old Chinese people on the bus screamed at him in chorus for about five minutes while we English speakers asked what the hell his problem was. That was pretty cool.
If Bruce Lee was alive, I'll bet he would have come flying out of that shirt just to kick that guy in right in his misplaced aggression. I wish he'd had the guts to face me himself, but I guess a young woman on crutches was just too scary for him.
Comments (5)
Owie! Good thing you scored your very own Canadian cabanna boy, before getting all gimpified. You should have him peel you some grapes.
Posted by Crooktooth | April 3, 2007 7:45 AM
Posted on April 3, 2007 07:45
Ouch, hope you get better soon. Will you recover naturally or is there surgery with power tools and screws and other interesting hardware in your future? OMG! Cyborg!
Posted by Krags | April 3, 2007 12:30 PM
Posted on April 3, 2007 12:30
Haha, no replacement parts or technology in my future, fortunately. Just a heavy stumpy boot for three weeks, then a brace for a while, then in two months or so, I'll be able to do normal athletic things again.
Posted by Aya | April 4, 2007 7:30 PM
Posted on April 4, 2007 19:30
I am hoping to avoid a similarly booted fate. If I don't we can be boot buddies!
Posted by Mrs. Cephalopod | April 5, 2007 4:34 PM
Posted on April 5, 2007 16:34
You continue to crack me up...I might have to use the image you just gave me in a poem! (If I do I'll dedicate it to you, LOL)
Posted by welovetea | April 7, 2007 4:15 PM
Posted on April 7, 2007 16:15