to ride bicycles my brother and i went to the emergency room three times in four days. this is true. we are not athletes. the third trip was carl getting a concussion because he fell off his bike and into a fire hydrant. he made it pretty far down the block, a good three or four houses away, and then he sort of wobbled and tipped over, and smashed his head into a fire hydrant. and it’s not like our block was full of fire hydrants or something, there was just the one. even at the time i remember thinking of all the places to fall, of course you go 