[Scooter311]

Okay okay - I've got a few, but here's one.........
So my friends and I are riding dirtbikes in the Southern Tier (Allegheny New York), it's April, and we've been out all day in the rain and mud. We pull in as it's getting dark, and everyone runs into the cabin to have deep fried turkey and beer. Being the obsessive freak that I am, I figger I'll oil my chain before going in. In my haste and hunger, I grab the chain with my left hand, can o' WD 40 in the right, and give the chain a firm yank. Uh huh, the heavy mud spun the wheel the rest of the way around, jamming my pointer finger betwixt the chain and sharp, dirty sprocket. The blood spurted all over the bike, a truck, and a couple of my friends as I waved it frantically around in the air, yelling "AAAAAHHHHH OWWWWWWW AHHHHHHH" . I did a lot of fancy jumping too.
"Is it bleeding?" they asked.... "OH....."
I spent the next 4 hours in Olean General Hospital Emergency getting the tip sewed back on. Luckily I didn't hit the bone, but they had to yank off what was left of a jagged fingernail with a small pair of pliers.
Now, I've oiled chains about 900 gajillion times, and have NEVER done something that stupid - go figure!
A week later I'm on my mountain bike a block away from my house, and some dope in a rusty hatchback pulls in front of me without looking - of course, the gauzed up finger gets caught in the brake lever, and I hit the fender face first. He was drunk or high or something - "Dude, are you OK? Like, you came out of NOWHERE!" I was OK though and the bike was too, and on top of that he was REALLY freaked out, shaking and looking around. Bah, I got back on and went on my way, kinda laughing.

Jeff