Talkin' on the balcony

The funny thing about the MBA is that by the end of the second year we have seen so many injuries that in comparison the world war was just mickey mouse episode.
I was just talkin about it with noelle and the reason is simply that everbody gets engaged in sports of every sort and kind, from rugby to hiking. Sports that many didn't even practice before. The mindset is the one we had when we where fourteen. A kind of "i'm invicible" and "i have everlasting energy in my body". But osteoporosis is subtle and starts early, and broken bones are just around the corner.

Talking about injuries it came to our mind the day when an MBA fellow crashed into a glass door. Usually this kind of accidents belong to candid camera shows only and they don't seem that painful. In his case it was. He was kind of lobotomized for 1 month. So we were trying to emulate the accident and it seems difficult to understand why people hit the door with the head instead of with the foot. And probably what happens is just that yuo hit first with the foot but then the body doesn't have the time to react and just follows in the direction of the door.

The awful thing is that when you hit the door with the foot you have few fractions of a second in which you realize that in a while something really painful is going to happen. You know you head is the next. And you can't do anything to avoid it.

The same thing, but for a different reason, happens when you crawl in the dark of your room at 4 in the morning, waving your arms in the dark in a desperate attempt to reach the bathroom without turning on the light (that otherwise will flash your eyes to death). And is exactly at that point that you do the fatal step and you hit the corner of the bed with the small toe.
At that point the event is just concretized in a low tone sound and the an interrupted movement of the leg. And it is exactly at this point that you realize what happened and you know that in a while a really painful intterrupt will hit your brain.

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