EPTlet me tell you the story of a brave man
we will call him "my boss"
on friday night my boss went out bowling
a treacherous sport
for on his first attempt
in an effort to avoid stepping over the line
he swung the ball
stopped himself
slipped
and landed on his knee
splitting it cleanly in two
tendons prying both clean halves apart
so that one part was in his thigh and the other dangling somewhere below
his wife's a doctor
so's his friend that was bowling with him
they both basically took a look at it
and immediately told him
gosh, you're lucky
(that it broke cleanly in two, instead of shattering)
i don't think he was feeling lucky
i also hear
that while he writhed in agony in a corner not far away
waiting for the ambulance
his friends and family
kept bowling
Incidentally his surgery went fine (although it took 3x longer than it was supposed to, apparently), so hopefully he'll be okay like, next year when he's done rehabbing.
One of my other bosses, upon relating the story and then telling us of the reaction of the others, quipped
"hey you know, after 30 years of being married...
and you know, that's probably the way he treated them!"
So mean, so mean.
Edit:
I probably shouldn't be laughing but it's such a weird, absurd incident, lol.
This CFO for another company apparently went drinking with him on Friday night, before the guy went bowling. And then he was like "I got a call on Friday, and they told me he got in an accident so I was worried sick, like, oh my god, he got in a car accident!" and then he gets told the story and just bursts out laughing for like 30 seconds.
Edit2:
Hahah, another boss was like
"Oh no, I was gonna go bowling soon...
... now I don't wanna go."
Oh, bowling. I never knew you were so murderous.
