Weekend + Crunch again.

[dryfter]

Friday: Went to the Ballroom, and Carrie saw Full Tilt for the first time, which resulted in giggling for hours. I was drunk, and probably talked a lot of crap to people. I suspect I'm a boring, over-bearing, over-hyped, one-sided conversationalist when drunk. Sorry.
Had fun, anyway, and was so trashed that I went for a walk to get a kebab on the way home.

Saturday: Did nothing.

Sunday: We got up earlier than usual, and rode the bike down to Richmond Park. Walked around there a bit, and saw animals and sunlight and nice views and stuff. Rode home.

Unfortunately, we were almost all the way home, when some guy on camden road going in the opposite direction decided to turn right - across our lane, in front of us. Crunch. Two seconds later we have bruises and a broken wing mirror. After ensuring Carrie is OK, and getting bike and car off the road, we get down to brass tacks: Namely, the traditional exchanging of details. Except, these two guys don't want to. I threaten to call the police, and then call them. Police arrive, and tell the guys that they can either exchange details, or get arrested for driving without due care. They agree to exchange details, and the police leave.
I take photos of damage, Carrie goes home, and then we go to the Royal Free A&E to get her shoulder checked out. We were so planning on going to the pub to round off a nice day, but.. :(

*grumble*
I'm so sick of drivers who have no fücking clue. And these bruises are going to hurt more in the morning :( (Carrie already hurts enough now though)

Comments

[unmercifulelf.livejournal.com]

holy crap!

*hugs as to not hurt the bruises*

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

It's OK.. I'm not really all that bad.
Sore and stuff ankles, bruised knee, misc minor bruises on right upper arm, and i seem to have pulled a tendon in my neck.

That's acceptable injury, really. I feel guilty about carrie though.

Although we did find a really nice pizza shop on the way back from the hospital.

[jasontheknight.livejournal.com]

Get well soon!

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm ok, really - Carrie is the one with the main injury.

Wearing amazingly bulky clothes containing crash padding and armor really pays off when you have an accident. (Which seems to be about every three or four months in this country.)

If/When I buy a new jacket in spring*, I'll at least have the old one to give to passengers - although admitedly it's way too large for carrie, and probably too small for anyone else.

You wouldn't believe I never had a motorcycle accident when riding in australia, would you? And back then I was a stupid teenager - says something about the drivers in London, IMO.

[*: Not because the current one is bad, but just because I'd like a real dead-cow black-and-silver jacket - which i couldn't afford at the time i bought my current synthetic one]

[lusciousa.livejournal.com]

Bah! Who needs that arm anyways? I bloody well got two of 'em... given a spare for a reason, I says...

[zapruder.livejournal.com]

I thought I saw you when we arrived at the ballroom (sitting at the table to the left of the main bar downstairs?), but was horribly late to meet $friends and couldn't stop to check... seems I managed to miss loads of people there!

Eek to your accident. Drivers are (often) complete twats.

[redcountess]

Glad you're both ok. London drivers *are* really crap, but at least a lot of them drive slow enough that you might not bounce too hard *touchwood*

[barbedwirekiss.livejournal.com]

I just heard/read about the accident. Hope you're OK, geez!