Ever had a day like this?
A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his
wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the
motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still
holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and along with
the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.
The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and
found her husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying
next to him and the patio door shattered.
The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance.
Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went
down the several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics
to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the
hospital, the wife uprights the motorcycle and pushed it outside.
Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained
some papers towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the
toilet.
The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to
come home. After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the
damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom,
sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he
flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and
her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on
the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the
buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone
and called for an ambulance.
The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them
at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began
carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street
accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband
had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard,
one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband out. He fell down the
remaining steps and broke his arm.
This story redefines what it is to have a bad day.
