Today it started to rain while I was biking down to the data center. That part was nice. It is nice a warm, so biking the rain is kinda of nice. While on a busy street I stuck to the sidewalk. In the distance I see two teenage girls and one little girl who is maybe 5-6 years old. If I see someone in the distance I make a point to stick to one side of the sidewalk so that they can see where I am coming and we both easily pass. This time though, I was in for a little surprise.
I moved to one side, and while the teen girls were not paying attention to her, the little girl moved to where I was. I moved to the other side, and she moved to match. She did this all the way up until I was right in front of her and had to stop. She stood in my path and looked at me totally fearless and confident. She smiled at me once she had my attention, and then moved aside. I guess she really wanted me to notice her. 
haha.
Did my thing at the data center and then went to leave. I was just starting my way in the garage when before I knew it I was eating pavement! The garage floor had become so oily that while I was biking as I peddled down on my left leg my front tire slide right out from under me and sent me flying strait down. I hit the ground totally confused because it happened so fast. I stopped for a moment to check myself out to make sure nothing was broken, sure enough nothing was, but wow I hurt. There was just pain all around because I didn’t really get to brace myself I just went full body down, which winded me. My right hand somehow got twisted under my chest when I went down and was sprained. Left leg took a good smack in the shin, but amazingly enough, no blood.
I was black though, covered in the oily garage gunk that has built up that caused my tire to slide out from under me. I headed back in to the washroom there to get washed up before I went ahead home. It’s been several hours since then, and man my hands are sore. I can’t pickup anything with my right hand right now, but I am still able to type (Thank God!). I know it will be a few days till my hands are better though, which might throw off my weight training. :(.
Bet you thought from the title that it was biking in the rain that caused me to crash huh? I haven’t taking a spill off my bike since I was a teenager, and if it wasn’t for building management keeping their garage floors properly cleaned, it would still be that way. I will get their contact details tomorrow to make sure they are aware of what happened and to keep it clean from now on. It could have been worse, but I’m happy I came out as minorly pained as I did.
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