A few of you have got
wind of David's motorcycle mishap and have very kindly been enquiring after
him. I'll let him bring you up to date himself, only adding - he can't bear to
think it, let alone say it - that his bike (it was brand new) was totalled.
Here's an artist's
impression of the motorbike crash as it actually happened. Roughly. Sort of…
And here's David…
How's this for a
beaut. The law over here holds that falling asleep is a voluntary act -
"oh, I think I'll freshen up by catching 40 winks between Solent Road and
West End Lane" - and therefore amounts to dangerous driving, which of
course is an offense and liable to prosecution, a fine, gaol time, etc. (I hope
they've got Wifi, a fridge full of Dunkel, and the complete works of Immanuel
Kant in Wormwood Scrubs [was ever prison apter named?].)
Whereas if you black
out that's not voluntary. You have to surrender your license because it means
you're epileptic - a spellbinding instance of medical detection and diagnosis -
but at least there's no time inside and no fine.
I told them I'd whited
out and that seemed to do the trick.
Yeah, getting better,
though the impact was so refreshing - I like to dwell on it - I often wonder if
I wasn't a fatality and this is some sort of parallel universe I was
"passed away" to on that fateful Sunday afternoon.
Rib bruisage seems to
be gone. And I get my replacement molar just before Christmas. He screwed in
the implant last week. The cocktail of drugs worked a treat though I could have
done with an injection in each ear drum. It sounded like a road resurfacing
operation, which held my attention. It was like having cymbals meet midway
between my ears. And then for a couple of days afterwards complete strangers
were gently suggesting that maybe I should think about swallowing the whole
grapefruit I appeared to have "inconspicuously" tucked into the left
side of my mouth.
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