Question of the Day

What's the klutziest thing you've ever done?

I'm gonna have to go with the situation I described in today's Quote of the Day thread:

I'm about 15. I've got my first Walkman, which I bought with the proceeds of my first job, cold-calling homeowners about some insulation thing or other. CDN$2.15/hour.

Anyway, I'm 15, so of course I'm both thoroughly invincible, and too cool for words. So when I ride my bike, I ride it no-hands. Cause that's what the cool kids do.

I'm also wearing my new Walkman, with the AWESOME auto-reverse feature. English Beat are skanking away in my headphones (NOT earbuds, let's be clear, those won't happen for a couple of years yet), and I've got The Two Towers in my hand, reading the fabulous Battle of Helm's Deep yet again. While I'm riding. And listening to music, in the wild suburbs of Toronto (Scarberia, specifically: in the time of which I speak, Toronto pretty much ended at McNicoll, between Finch and Steeles - there were farms beyond Steeles).

And rode my bike beautifully into the back bumper of a parked AMC Pacer (that help place it in time for you?), launching myself, book, Walkman and all, over the handlebars and onto the car.

Now, you might well have thought that I'd take this lesson to heart, and stop riding no-hands, or maybe stop reading while riding.

But in proof that wisdom comes late in life to some, this was not so. Nor (not coincidentally) was it the last time I'd see my handlebars go by below me.

Now: what's yours?