I can't say I blame him
May. 26th, 2008 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyToday I was put on hold, so I switched the phone to speaker mode and did something else while I listened. The people I was ringing had talkback radio on, and the topic of the moment was "embarrassing moments".
The winner (as declared by me): the man who, as a boy, was taken to the circus as a treat. One of the acts called for children to volunteer to learn how to do some fancy bareback riding. A couple of other kids went before him and they seemed to have fun, so he put his hand up for a turn too. Well, the ride itself was fine: he was in a safety harness attached to an overhead cable so he just had to sit there while the horse trotted around in a circle. The problem came when he was dismounting. Somehow the horse took off, leaving him dangling from the cable. Then the motor on the cable kicked in, so he went zooming round the circuit by himself, with a pair of clowns running after him.
Finally, one clown caught him by his legs and held on. Unfortunately, he was wearing tracksuit pants, which came off, leaving him to fly about half-naked, until someone turned the motor off.
In his words: "I've never been back to the circus since."
The winner (as declared by me): the man who, as a boy, was taken to the circus as a treat. One of the acts called for children to volunteer to learn how to do some fancy bareback riding. A couple of other kids went before him and they seemed to have fun, so he put his hand up for a turn too. Well, the ride itself was fine: he was in a safety harness attached to an overhead cable so he just had to sit there while the horse trotted around in a circle. The problem came when he was dismounting. Somehow the horse took off, leaving him dangling from the cable. Then the motor on the cable kicked in, so he went zooming round the circuit by himself, with a pair of clowns running after him.
Finally, one clown caught him by his legs and held on. Unfortunately, he was wearing tracksuit pants, which came off, leaving him to fly about half-naked, until someone turned the motor off.
In his words: "I've never been back to the circus since."