my life or the fly's
on friday i was lying on my bed, talking to sue on the phone when it started pouring down rain out of nowhere. because the sky light window is right above my bed i couldn't hear a thing so i naturally went to the toilet (not to pee but because it was a little bit quieter). after talking to sue for a while, and ignoring the rain banging away on the roof, it occurred to me; the window in the living room was still open!
when i ran out to close it, the first thing i noticed was that the whole wall next to the window was wet. so i told sue this:'oh shit! the whole wall is wet'. the next thing i knew, i slipped on the wet wooden floor and slid halfway across the room, crashing into and breaking some miscellaneous objects sitting in one corner. when i fell i landed directly on my right elbow ( OUCH!!!) but i also somehow managed to hurt my wrist and my little finger as well.
after getting up i realized, to my horror, that the whole area under the window was flooded. not only that, but sitting in the puddle and directly rain was the tv, along with all the electrical plugs and cables. so i told sue that i love her very much and that i hope i don't die, and hung up the phone.
so, i found some shoes (with rubber soles), closed the window and turned my attention to the next problem at hand: disconnecting the tv without getting electrocuted. easier said than done! i pulled the first cable out of the wall no problem. but when i got to the second one i found that it had somehow been wedged between the radiator and the wall. i tried pulling it out but it just didn't want to come budge. they must have attached the radiator to the wall after plugging it into the wall. i checked to see if there were any other options but realised there were none. so i just went back and yanked at the plug with all my might. (yes, this is a dramatic story so don't laugh!) and finally it came loose!
there. safe. the living room is a mess but christoph is alive. so i cleaned everything up and moved the tv far away from the window so that history may never repeat itself. next i looked at my poor arm: the little finger didn't hurt to bad, the wrist was bleeding a bit but it too seemed ok. but my elbow... well, check it out for yourself:
it's been two days so it doesn't look so bad any more but it still hurts a bit. i don't think anything is broken though so that's good. i bought an ice pack today. oh, boy this is where the story gets boring. i better stop.
the end.
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TRIVIA
i'm left-handed so i was using my left hand to hold the phone. if i had hung up before checking on the window i might have landed on both arms, in which case you wouldn't have gotten to see those nice pictures. at least with one busted elbow i can still function half way normally.
i'm flying to malta with sue, emily (my mom) and jim (my step-dad) next week. if i had broken my arm that would have been one itchy holday in a cast.
just before calling sue i finished recording a song on my new H4 recording device (more about the some other time). the song is only 4 minutes long but it took me 2.5 hours to record because i kept making mistakes and didn't know how to use the machine properly. if i had been electrocuted that would have been my 'musical good bye' to the world. and it would have still been full of mistakes...
the two weeks before the 'elbow event' i had been teaching this intensive english course (4 hours a day for 10 days with loads of preparation). it would have been ironic to survive that but then be electrocuted.
why the title 'my life or the fly's'? well, the reason i opened the window in the first place was because i wanted to save a fly who had probably been banging his head against the window all day. but in doing so i put my life in danger.
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in case i never write on this blog again, farewell!
