Deja vu all over again

Posted on June 29, 2005 | Filed Under Life 

I talked to my parents last night and told them all about Michael’s accident. Then we talked about how freaky my accident was compared to what Michael went through yesterday — the similarities are kind of incredible.

When I was 11 or 12, I had a similar accident to Michael. Most people don’t know, but I have a false tooth in the front — it came out through my lip when I crashed. For many years I had a mustache, which hid the scar, but over the past few years the scar has almost disappeared.

Here are a few of the similarities:

Jim: Riding down a hill a few hours before my soccer game and lost control of my bike.

Michael: Riding down a hill a few hours before his soccer game and lost control of his bike.

Jim: Went over my handlebars and knocked out my front tooth.

Michael: Went over (or sideways, we don’t really know) his handlebars and knocked out the same front tooth.

Jim: Two strangers (a young man and woman) stopped and took me home.

Michael: Two strangers (a young man and woman) stopped and took him home.

Jim: When I got home, my father said I just stood in the driveway bleeding. When I approached him, I stuck my finger through my lip where the tooth came out. I don’t remember most of that.

Michael: He got out of the car and just stared at us bleeding, not really knowing what to do.

Jim: My parents got the tooth (I’m not sure if they went back or if the people that brought me home picked it up).

Michael: I went back to the accident scene and picked up the tooth off the road.

Jim: My parents took me to see Dr. Christie to have my tooth put back in my mouth. We then went to the hospital.

Michael: We took Michael to see Dr. Christie (yep same guy) and he sent us to the hospital.

The next day, Michael and I both looked about the same. I feel so bad for him.

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    7 Responses to “Deja vu all over again”

    1. Piper_in_MTL on June 29th, 2005 8:45 pm

      Wow… that is kind of freaky, Jim… I’ve heared the expression “Like father, like son” many times before, but when it comes to accidents, you don’t want that to really be the case…

    2. Jim Dalrymple on June 29th, 2005 8:48 pm

      Let’s hope that this is the only one he has. It was my only bad one.

    3. margadagiomargadagio on June 29th, 2005 9:09 pm

      That’s really spooky.

      Nice that you can relate to Michael’s accident.

    4. Michael_Adams on June 29th, 2005 9:23 pm

      Got here the “old fashioned” way. So, Like father, like son applies. It has to be genetic. :)

    5. Mississauga on June 29th, 2005 9:32 pm

      So when will you folks be changing Michael’s name to Jim?

    6. Jim Dalrymple on June 29th, 2005 9:36 pm

      He’s unlucky enough Alec, we wouldn’t want to do that to him :-)

    7. Piper_in_MTL on June 30th, 2005 3:08 pm

      Jim Jr.?

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