Biffed!

Funny as hell, it was.  This small statured teen was running for the bus stop, with two large slushies, one in each hand, then BOOM!!!  The kid went down and went down hard.  His little body sliding across the remainder of the street, the two cups of icy soda went straight up in the air, before smashing down to the ground, turning the snow from bright white to red and blue.

The weather has been very mild, for the last week.  A warmer than usual winter, overall, but this past week found the mercury rising to nearly double digits.  Astonishing for January in Saskatchewan.  The weather reverted back to colder temps, but instead of getting the snow that was forecasted for last night, instead I think it may have rained.  That combined with the constant melting-freezing-melting process that seems to be happening, the ground has (virtually) turned to glare ice.  It was rare, for me today, to spot any stretches of sidewalk that wasn't covered in an inch of ice.  Two places on my route, to be exact.

I've shared my mishap on ice from 2018, where I slipped in the back parking lot at my [then] job as a courier, knocking myself out for nearly a half hour.  Thankfully, it was only a brisk night, rather than one of those hellacious negative forty nights, otherwise I probably would have froze to death.  The result of that knock on the head was a year of my life rehabilitating and the struggle to regain my memory in it's entirety is an ongoing battle.  A fight which experts have told me will never come to fruition.  That fateful slip on the ice, literally changed my life from that point on.  Long term memory, fleeting at best.  Short term, not the best either.  A prime example would be this morning.  My cat has lived with me for nearly fourteen years.  During this time, I've obviously fed him every morning, yet this morning, it seems I'd forgotten, but boy did he remind the shit outta me when I got home. 

So seeing that kid biff it out on the street, I should have been more concerned, rather than laughing out loud.  I did ask if he was alright, but he ignored my concern and immediately asked for a free ride.  Little bastard!  I'm glad he wiped out.  Even better that he dumped his drinks.

I saw another prime example of people not really thinking about the surface that they were walking on, as I was sitting at a traffic light.  I watched as a man and a woman were slowly sidling up the sidewalk until they came to a sizeable spanse, where they stopped.  The man said something to the woman and next thing ya know, he's picked her up in his arms and takes one step onto the slippery surface.  His progress did not last long enough to take a second step.  DOWN he went with a tremendous thud, his female companion falling on top of him.  I let out a small gasp followed by a snicker because, it was f*cking stupid to attempt whatever the hell he was trying to do.  Kudos for trying to keep chivalry alive, but holy shit!  The light changed to green and I soon lost sight of the two of them, him lying flat on his back and her perched neatly on his chest, unscathed by the ordeal.

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