Originally Posted by
Myosmith
The reality is that pretty much everything we do comes with some degree of risk. I'm a paramedic and I've seen serious injuries to cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers. I've also seen serious injuries from falling down steps, mowing the lawn, woodworking, playing baseball, slipping on the ice, falling out of bed (no kidding), putting up Christmas decorations, cutting firewood, riding horses, boating, kitchen appliances, etc . . . and so forth . . . and you get the picture...............
Yes, living is risky. I drove 1/4 mile oval dirt-track for 12 years, racing almost every weekend during the season. During that 12 years a lot of my cars got torn up, but my only injury of any significance was my one and only rollover during my 8th year of racing. It knocked the wind out of me and gave me an aching back that pretty much incapacitated me for three days.* But, here's the irony...a few months before that, I was walking across my kitchen floor and my foot started to slip on a small spill and then suddenly regained traction which jerked and pivoted me suddenly. This produced
the exact same backache as the dirt-track wreck,
the same exact degree of pain, the same duration. I retired from stock car racing due to burnout and cost, but I don't plan to retire from walking across my kitchen floor and its inevitable that sometimes something will have spilled on it.
You take reasonable precautions and after that you take your chances.
*(The same night my #1 pit crew member took over and won the feature despite having to start all the way to the back since my attempt to qualify for the feature terminated with the rollover. That was Friday night. Sunday he drove again and won the special show that day.)
Don in Austin