Fall Down, Go Boom

Ben 3/25/09

I have a dark secret that, until this day, I have never admitted to a single soul. I find little kids falling down to be extremely hilarious. I think it all stems from my childhood.

We would all go camping out in the middle of nowhere, and one of our family friends was 3 or 4 years old and was learning to ride a bicycle, which we nicknamed "monkey-bike". It had the smallest little frame and two gigantic rubber wheels. Our friend was pretty amazing at riding the bike, negotiating trees and stumps with ease, but he was and has always been a daredevil. There was one particularly large root in the road, and God bless him for not taking the easy route on the other 75% of the road that was root free, he would try to ride over this thing every time he passed by. Most of the time his over-inflated front tire would launch up in to the air, followed by his back tire kicking the bike up and leading toward an off-balanced, front tire landing, difficult for even a trained professional. We would watch him do this for HOURS. Crashing, crying, getting yelled at by his parents to stop doing it, composing himself and getting back on the bike all over again.

Anyways, this strip almost, ALMOST was funny, until the kid didn't get hurt.