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[Janie]

i fell today...apparently not all of the ice is gone from the horrible snow storm last week.It was beautiful when I woke up and all the snow around my apartment was gone and melted. I was able to ride my bike down the hill on Madison Ave to the lake Washington loop and get to the side streets where less street traffic travels. As I was riding up a small valley in my commute my back tires started to spin and I was getting nowhere. I noticed it was all ice going up the hill and I walked up the rest of the way. At the top the roads looked great, and I got back on my bike. The next thing I know, I've lost control of my front wheel and my back tire fish tails out from under me and I fall on my shoulder and ass. The gears to my bike stab my ankle and I'm bleeding through my sock. So that sucked.But the funny part about all of this, I wasn't too hurt just a little bloody. My ankle and blood scared the guy on the bus next to me...It wasn't oozing out, if it was bad i won't have continued to commute to work. This guy looked like he was about to pass out from the site of a small amount of blood localized to my sock! He actually stared at it for about a minute then got up and sat somewhere else. But that's OK...I feel kind of stupid for even trying to bike to work (my shoulder hates me now!)