(S9) - Weekend PT 4 - Close Call

[Renrut]

Back when Childish Gambino was a wee lad, he went for a motorcycle ride with his dad. He loved going for the rides. Near, far, it did not matter to Gambino, he just loved being on the bike with his dad and no cares in the world. That was until one day they were in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and traffic was especially heavy that day. Coming into town there is a hill with a couple businesses littered on the top and bottom of each side. At the bottom of one side there used to sit a Walmart that has since been destroyed and rebuilt. Anyways, traffic from Gambino and his fathers' direction of travel was backed up because a single car was trying to cross traffic to turn into the Walmart. In the line of traffic, Gambino and his dad were just below the top of the hill....little did they know a speeder was about to come over the top of the hill, unaware of the line of traffic waiting for them after they hit the crest. As the car came over the hill, it smashed into the motorcycle carrying Gambino and his dad. It sent Gambino about 2-3 feet into the air and then back down again hard on the seat. The rear fender was lodged so tight into the front bumper of the car that hit them, that the police had to move the car with the bike still attached to it to the parking lot so they could pry it apart. I will never forget the paramedics and police telling my dad that that was the only thing that saved our lives that day...that rear fender locking into that bumper in just a way that it kept the bike upright and did not smash us into the car in front of us, or under the car that had hit us.

I was pretty shook after that incident and to this day, I refuse to get back on a motorcycle.

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