I told my mom about the motorcycle ride incident and she said that it was appropriate that I wore an "I'm retarded" helmet, because I must be retarded to get on a motorcycle. If that wasn't enough, she also mentioned the likelihood that I would become retarded after an accident on said motorcycle. But, "not retarded enough to enjoy it, you would still know everything that you had lost." Then she tried to force me to say I would never do it again. So I told her I was going skydiving this weekend. xoxo
By on August 28, 2002 12:06 AM
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Hi | August 30, 2002 12:22 AMHi Lina,
You are very brave for getting on motorcycle. I was in motorcycle accident & I not wear helmet but wasn't retarded before accident & even less so afterward. I did bounce off pavement and fractured a vertebrae in middle of back. Do they make helmets for your back? Do they make you look retarded? I'm going to go drool now.
kevin | August 28, 2002 9:48 PMI've never written a note for school before, but here goes… I actually doubt that you'll pass it on to her but I felt obliged.
Dear Lina's Mom,
There's ever chance that living will kill you in the end. So whether it's riding a motorcycle or drinking your sixth can of coke of the day, or lighting up a cigarette, just being alive put you at 100% risk of getting dead. While I fret about my own baby sister (I don't have kids of my own yet) who loops and barrel rolls aeroplanes, rock climbs and travels dangerous and probably uncharted parts of the world (North American and Canada), it's these very endeavours that makes her the unique and truly wonderful person she is.
I bite my tongue every time she tells me her plan is to go out with friends and travel back on one of London's night buses, with only six friends at her side, and yet I ride a motorcycle, if only because during a moment of acceleration, or while zooming around a deserted back roads I feel truly free, from management, banks and just now and again the law!
I may be regarded as retarded now, or actually in the future, but it's worth it. I answer to you question, yes I have two close friends that have lost limbs as a result of motorcycle accidents, but then I know a third that died for the want of a seatbelt in a van. As the lyrics say, "live you life, be free".
Pete | August 28, 2002 4:13 PM