The following is taken from a Florida newspaper: 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 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 laying 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 uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside.
Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some paper
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 laying 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 his 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 ankle. So, "Is your day as bad as you think?"
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