The Bucket List.
Late Friday afternoon I got hit by a car. We were parked across some 711 somewhere in Manila. Pong was doing DFA biz and King was doing personal biz. Marco was guarding the van. He asked me to buy Tropicana and cigs so I do. I cross the street, buy, get out the door. I look left, there's some faraway car. I glance right as I start crossing the street, I hear people scream, I feel a car hit me on the left; attempt to balance and yet I fall on my ass.
People crowd over and I'm embarrassed as shit. I get up, feel fine. Realizing I still feel my legs, I tell onlookers "Okay lang ako." The girl on the passenger seat gets out and more people were crowding over so I declare again na okay lang ako. Girl rushes back inside car and I rush over to the other side of the road, quite mindfully this time. Stupid perhaps, I did not get the driver's number, nor the plate of the CRV. I was torn over bitching or getting away, and had to decide in a split split second. I suppose some people would understand the lack of mindset upon the chaos.
Later on that night, pretty large bruises appeared on my left leg, and my right leg started feeling a bit flimsy. Walking wasn't what it used to be. I couldn't sit on my right ass cheek.
Friends are telling me to have it checked but it seems like a hassle. Plus. I haven't gone to the doctor in ages, and I don't know who to go to. I'm too old for my pediatrician and this ain't ER material really. Plus! Aside from the very very very slight limp, and the fact that i have to wear pants all the fucking time now, I think I'll be alright. But I've been wrong before.
And I was right about being wrong on that one because during the shoot yesterday, I fell down the stairs. Not sure if it's on the weak (and now even weaker) leg or if I just missed that step; but godforbid I now I have more bruises, and my right ankle which has always been flaky is a bit on the sprain-y side. Recap: all sorts of bruises on left leg, flimsy and sprainy right leg. This close to being an amputee.
Uhuh. Get hit by a car. Yep, another thing to tick off in my "things to experience before I die" list.
Why can't it be any of the good things like see the Stonehenge, or watch Radiohead live, or go diving in the Palau or Maldives or something?
I just NEED to get into friggin accidents all the time. And they're not even cool ones like you know, some mountain climbing accident while trying to save endangered species or getting trampled on by paparazzi while trying to escape from fans.