Falls

Indulge me…this will probably be a long post.

It’s unfortunate that falling down has become “par for the course”/“the status quo”/all those kinda phrases for me. It’s something that I hope doesn’t happen but occasionally it does. There were times when I knew I was doing shit that could end badly but i took a chance anyway and there were times that i fell and i couldn’t explain what the hell happened. Because they are “part of my life”, I’ve come to realise that generally they are more traumatic for the people around me (if I’m not alone) than for me. If I realise that it’s going to happen, I usually try to keep my head from hitting anything (I really do hold it up and out as best as I can), hope for the best and when I’m down, the goal is get back up and keep it moving. It’s happened more times than I’ve liked over the past year but i won’t bore u with details except for a baddish one.

I love both my scooters…for different reasons and eventually over time, I learned which one to use based on where I’m going, what I’ll be doing etc. So last month, OP stopped working – it was actually a scary situation cuz I bounce starter and pressed the control and he went nowhere! anyhoo, that’s not the point of this post – and I had to use Bumbleebee for everything for 2 weeks (not the best scenario but i didn’t have a choice). Now Bumblebee is not the stablest of scooters so when I’m using him, I don’t turn corners at top speed and if I have to go over a hump or anything, i don’t go at an angle, I approach it “head on” and slowly.

It was after an Atlanta United football match last month, so I was downtown by the stadium and there were hoards of people around and traffic everywhere. I was driving Bumblebee on the pavement and entering a crosswalk to cross the street (that’s another thing…I don’t play with crossing streets; I always use crosswalks and I always wait for my green light). I guess I misjudged or didn’t realise(?) that the crosswalk wasn’t evenly built (so there was a hump somewhere) and the next thing I knew was Bumbleebee was tipping over! Fuck!!! I ended up in the road, the concrete road…I really cannot give u a whole lot of detail but I know that I looked up and there was a circle of faces looking down at me…I outstretched my arms and some people helped me up. I don’t know who righted Bumblebee but he was already upright by the time I was. I didn’t know it at the time but Babs was behind me and between she and a random lady who had seen everything play out, the cops showed up (it was after football so they are everywhere), EMTs and ambulance was called and my forehead was cleaned up because apparently I was bleeding…I had no idea that I was. While the cops were taking my information etc, I felt my watch vibrating but I ignored it and soon after I heard Babs talking to someone saying, “yeah…she did…she seems alright…we’re waiting for the ambulance to get here.” I was confused wondering who she might be talking to who already seemed to know what happened. Longer story short, I ended up leaving before the ambulance got there; they were taking very long because of traffic the cops said. The bleeding had stopped and it was just minor scrapes so I didn’t need stitches…I decided that I’d take responsibility and go home.

I found out that it was K who’d called while everything was going on and it turns out that she and ASal had gotten text messages sent from my watch that “Emergency SOS – Stacey appears to have fallen”. At first, I was flabbergasted and then looking thru my watch settings, I realised that I had listed them as contacts for such an emergency. After that I really remembered that that feature of the Apple Watch was a factor that played into my decision to buy it. WOW! Guess it works…it’s unfortunate that a disaster had to occur for me to know that it works and I hadn’t just tested it out. All in all, as bad as everything was, it could have been a helluva lot worse. These days, all I have to show for it is a small bump on my forehead where I was cut, it’s so small that u can’t see it but u can feel it if u pass your hand over the area, and I did not scar.

Sigh…I eh go lie, I don’t like to call that a fall…I prefer to blame it on Bumblebee and say “the scooter tipped over” but regardless, the outcome was the same…I ended up in a horizontal position…in the road no less…when I should not have been.

Allyuh have a good week,
Stax