Serious skating accidents can also turn out to be funny
Willem Saris
Everybody who regularly skates will have experienced that the ice is a hard material even though it is made of water. Sometimes the fall is not serious but occasionally that is not the case. I have experienced this once in the very beginning of the skating season. I was skating for the first time that year. At some moment I was sitting along the skating track and asked the person next to me what happened because I did not know. He told me that I said that I had a cramp and fell on the ice. I did not remember that. On the other hand it seemed that I had put off my skates and had put them in my bag next to me. I started to wonder what more I had forgotten. I was asking myself what I had done that afternoon and the day before. I did not know. Then I became nervious because I knew a person who lost all his memory even his language by a fall. So I asked my self if I remembered my name, the name of my wife , my adress. These tests were reassuring because I knew all this. But I was still worried about the mathematics I had recently studied. So I tried to see if I remembered some standard linear algebra. So I took a piece of paper and tried out some of the basic operations. It went well. After that I could go home with a more relaxed feeling.
Some years later a friend of me, Egbert, made a similar fall. He spoke with me after that but every 2 minutes he asked me the same questions: Did we speak with each other before I fell or after ? I said before and then he repeated the same question again. So I decided to go with him to the hospìtal. Being there I thought that it would be better to contact his wife. So I asked him if he could give me the telephone number of his wife. He gave me the number and I phoned her. It turned out that it was the number of his exwife.
I have to admit that skating in Barcelona I had a similar experience. I fell skating in a group. After having been unconscience for a while I saw a student of me and asked her "How do you get here?" She said that I phoned her that morning. I replied that that was not true. This scene repeated itself every 2 minutes. So I was brought to the hospital for a test. There I was a phenomenon: they had never seen before: a skater of 70 years old. I suppose that the nurses told to each other there was a crasy person in the first aid part of the hospital because at some point I had 7 nurses around my bed. I have never been so popular with women in my life. After that they did all possible test on me and it turned out that I was not as crasy as they first thought.
All three accidents ended well. We both are still skating.
Willem Saris
Everybody who regularly skates will have experienced that the ice is a hard material even though it is made of water. Sometimes the fall is not serious but occasionally that is not the case. I have experienced this once in the very beginning of the skating season. I was skating for the first time that year. At some moment I was sitting along the skating track and asked the person next to me what happened because I did not know. He told me that I said that I had a cramp and fell on the ice. I did not remember that. On the other hand it seemed that I had put off my skates and had put them in my bag next to me. I started to wonder what more I had forgotten. I was asking myself what I had done that afternoon and the day before. I did not know. Then I became nervious because I knew a person who lost all his memory even his language by a fall. So I asked my self if I remembered my name, the name of my wife , my adress. These tests were reassuring because I knew all this. But I was still worried about the mathematics I had recently studied. So I tried to see if I remembered some standard linear algebra. So I took a piece of paper and tried out some of the basic operations. It went well. After that I could go home with a more relaxed feeling.
Some years later a friend of me, Egbert, made a similar fall. He spoke with me after that but every 2 minutes he asked me the same questions: Did we speak with each other before I fell or after ? I said before and then he repeated the same question again. So I decided to go with him to the hospìtal. Being there I thought that it would be better to contact his wife. So I asked him if he could give me the telephone number of his wife. He gave me the number and I phoned her. It turned out that it was the number of his exwife.
I have to admit that skating in Barcelona I had a similar experience. I fell skating in a group. After having been unconscience for a while I saw a student of me and asked her "How do you get here?" She said that I phoned her that morning. I replied that that was not true. This scene repeated itself every 2 minutes. So I was brought to the hospital for a test. There I was a phenomenon: they had never seen before: a skater of 70 years old. I suppose that the nurses told to each other there was a crasy person in the first aid part of the hospital because at some point I had 7 nurses around my bed. I have never been so popular with women in my life. After that they did all possible test on me and it turned out that I was not as crasy as they first thought.
All three accidents ended well. We both are still skating.