Wanna see that again?

When I was a freshman in high school I was one of the fortunate kids that got to ride the bus. Not the short bus, lets keep those jokes to a minimum. It was a normal size bus, but that has nothing to do with this story. This story is about how I met one of my best friends.

So every day I rode the bus to and from school. Each day after school the bus would drop off me and one other kid that lived in our neighborhood. The bus would drop us off near the entrance to our neighborhood, but the entrance was set back from the main road a bit. So we had to walk on the dirt for a while before we reached the pavement and the sidewalk. Where the dirt met the sidewalk there was a small lip that would trip you if not careful, keep that in mind.

So me and this other kid would walk to our homes but we never said a word to each other. He was a year older so I thought he was out of my league. Well one day I was walking slightly in front of him and I was looking back out of the corner of my eye and I didn't see the lip in the sidewalk. Well needless to say, my foot caught on the lip and I went flying. It was the kind of fall that moved in slow motion and it seemed like every part of my body went a different direction. By the time I hit the cement i was already thinking of how I was going to try to recover from my idiotic blunder. As I was getting back up to my feet all I could think to say was "wanna see that again?" I didn't think it was that funny but apparently it was because the kid I had never spoken to starting laughing uncontrollably. He introduced himself and from that moment on we were best friends.

I guess the lesson I learned was don't be afraid to laugh at yourself, and don't do drugs!