Fell off my bike today, glad I had a lid !!

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700c
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Fell off my bike today, glad I had a lid !!

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Cycling from Asda to home, on a shared pathway ... a toddler decides to run in the way when I'm about 3 feet away (going quite slowly).

Up into the verge, which is at a 45 degree angle.

Thankfully my shopping was OK. If that pot of Jam had not had a lid, there would be been red stuff everywhere...
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That was jammy. Without a lid you could have ended up in a sticky situation.

There's even a chance things could have been so bad that you'd have ended up being berried :wink: .
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Come on all together now!
He jumped from twenty thousand feet without a parachute,
He jumped from twenty thousand feet without a parachute,
He jumped from twenty thousand feet without a parachute,
And he ain't gonna jump no more!

[Chorus]
Glory glory what a heck of a way to die,
Glory glory what a heck of a way to die,
Glory glory what a heck of a way to die,
And he ain't gonna jump no more!

They scraped him off the tarmac like a dollop of strawberry jam,
They scraped him off the tarmac like a dollop of strawberry jam,
They scraped him off the tarmac like a dollop of strawberry jam,
And he ain't gonna jump no more!

etc. etc.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
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You could have seriously jammed your foot
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You might even have ended up brown bread....
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
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mind you that's just anecdot, not evidence. I fell off my bike carrying a pan of curry in one hand without a lid and I didn't spill any. I think drink might have been taken
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Perhaps you just lost your bottle. Do you have any evidence it was taken from you? :wink:
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Haha, very good chaps :D
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You're a (not so) jammy dodger? :wink:
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I bet you weren't ex-pectin that.
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