i was coming home from zaphod's up the bike path along the canal, and under the bridge, and around up over hog's back's near mooney's bay, and was a block from home, when something hit the back of my bike and i fell, face first, on the metal sidewalk over the worst part of hog's backs bridge:
i admit i was drunk.
but, i'd bicycled home drunk a thousand times previously and have a thousand times since and i've never fallen over ever. it's possible that my bike caught something on the metal and i had nowhere to go but down, regardless - whether i was drunk or not. but, i've long wondered if a foreign object hit my bicycle.
as you can see, i'm lucky i didn't fall in the river.
it looks like a nice bay from that side, and people swim in that space, despite frequent health advisories regarding the safety of the water. but, this is what it looks like on the other side of that bridge:
while i ended up with stitches on my face and a scar that is still visible, along with the aforementioned chipped tooth, i would have been dead if i had fallen a few degrees the other way.
i've smoked ounces of marijuana at the exact place this picture was taken.
so, i fell off the bike, knew i was injured, and walked it home, which at the time was in one of those big buildings at the corner of prince of wales & hog's back; i was drunk, but not too drunk to remember what happened. but, i just collapsed when i got in.
when i woke up a few hours later, i noticed a trail of blood from the door and followed it back to the elevator.
so, i got back on my bike and took myself to the civic. and, they stitched me up. but, the chip was permanent....
so, it may look like cavitation. and, it may, functionally, need to be treated like it. and, i may be at greater risk of losing that tooth in the long run if it's not properly dealt with. but, it's a chip rather than a cavity.