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Date: 07 July 2007 18:27:34
Chelley!
And very many congratulations to her.
Yes folks - I did indeed manage to whack myself on the jaw with a traffic cone! We have them around at church to cordon off areas when necessary, indicate that the car park is full etc. In case you want to replicate the incident, here's how I did it!
For any of you who have actually studied a traffic cone, you will have noticed that they are made of very hard plastic (very very hard) with a very heavy rubber base to stop them falling over easily! I was trying to prise two of them apart that had been stacked one on top of the other. I was bending over them and had them tilted at an angle to do this. Realising that my grip on them was awkward and that they were too heavy to hold on the way I had intended I let them drop (all of 6 inches!). The heavy bases swung them from an angle to upright as they fell and the top of the upper cone swung in an arc that ended up clouting me on the jaw.
Most of the others are still quite plausible though.
I do scrounge toast off the toddlers group (hunger drives me enough to face the mayhem).
I do climb in wheelie bins and jump up and down in them to squash all the garden waste. It's a bit like trampolining but more prickly (especially when there are cuttings from the holly bushes) and less bouncy!
I have walked around with a bucket on my head (not recently!) and also walked into a lamp post - though not at the same time! Apologies to all of you who would have liked it to be this option! Iwouldn't really be that stupid - would I?
The likelihood of me falling in the wheelbarrow or hitting myself with the rake are reasonably high though - you are after all talking to the only person I know who managed to once hit themself on the head with a bat while playing Rounders.
I also once slipped on some ice in a work car park and knocked my wing mirror - just not with my jaw!
The only thing I'm not so sure how I would manage is hitting myself with frozen milk, (just added to the list so that there was something even more bizzare than the traffic cone!) though a doctor friend of mine once had a patient come into A&E on Christmas Eve with a broken toe - they'd dropped the (frozen) turkey on it!