A man walks into a tree...

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Not a joke per se, but sort of funny.

I went out shopping this evening. It's raining here, a drizzle that's more "put your hood up" than "put your umbrella up". It's also fairly dark at ~2000 at this time of year and I had the wrong glasses on. Although that probably wouldn't have made a difference as they were almost opaque due to a combination of the rain and condensation from breathing with a mask on (and the cold and damp air). My low light vision is pretty poor in the best circumstances, let alone those circumstances.

So yeah, I literally walked into a tree. Never saw the bloody thing at all. It was more of a sapling, I suppose, only a couple of inches thick. Straight down my face from brow to chin over my right eye. It feels like I'm going to have a black eye from having that part of my glasses rammed into my face.

On the plus side, the glasses held up really well. The frame hasn't bent (or, more likely, it bent a bit and then went back into shape) and the lens isn't scratched. So no harm done, therefore somewhat funny.


But the GD question is - Who do I sue? I think it's the tree's fault.
 
Some very good puns so far.
In fact it's no joke - as a kid I was walking down the road with some mates and we were all looking right at something over the road --I turn to look forward and bang straight into a tree- It gave me concussion and lost my memory for a few hours --Doc said I was OK - Those were the days you rang the Doc and he jumped in his car and came to you. Yes they really did -Honest no joke.

Similar blows to the head can have wildly different effects. Maybe I was just lucky. Maybe the angle of impact was different. Maybe I have an unusually thick skull. Or maybe I'm part woodpecker :)

I remember house visits from doctors too. That was quite some time ago.
 
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