I will never drive.
I never ever have wanted to drive. I never want to be behind the wheel of vehicle. I never want my license. It scares me and plus, I’m much better at being a back seat princess. The only vehicle I will ever consider driving and this is under strict terms is a 1997 TJ JEEP. There’s a story on behind why it’s that specific type of vehicle but that’s a tale for another time. Driving terrifies me to the point I think I’m constantly going to drive off the road or hit an on coming car. When I tried for my G1 the instructor wouldn’t take the hazards off the whole time. I should not be on the road behind such a BIG vehicle.
Problem solved: Get me a SMALL ‘car’.
This is what I like to call “The Beast”. My little pink E-Bike with a basket on the front, no license needed. I finally had a freedom to do what I never had before. I finally didn’t have to rely on others to drive me places. I can just hop on the bike and go myself. And oh boy trust me, I did. I zoomed around Petrolia hitting every little free library on my route. I was having so much fun. I was living my best life on my little pink bike cruising and feeling the hair in my wind.
Maybe I was having a little too much fun. This is the part in the story where my first big fall comes. I accelerated too fast around a turn and flew over a curb and my bike and then landed on my ankle. Thank goodness I was wearing a helmet but I still didn’t have the right gear to prevent a fall like this. 
I broke my ankle in August 3 weeks after I got my bike. It was a present for my 27th birthday. Maybe I zoomed a little too much. 8 boring and long weeks past and then there was nothing stopping me from getting on that bike again.I cruised around for the rest of the fall months. Winter the bike took a break, but the moment the rose buds came out and it was spring I was back on the famous Beast again.
Mid April comes around, Im biking around the the block and I’m just turning the corner to go home and then BAM….fell off my bike again. But this time in my opinion, with a more serious injury. I also want to say I fell off my bike this time for no particular reason.
Lesson learned: Get better gear. I was biking in sweatpants which ripped tremendously. At first this injury looked like a bad case of the bruises and road rash but little did anyone know it was so much more. I decided it was time to invest in better gear for my bike and for me. If I’m going to be falling I might as well do it properly. I out fitted myself in a dirt bike jacket and pants, bought myself a motorcycle helmet and mirrors to go on the bike.
I looked styling but that did not help the injury at hand. Infected twice, two doctors visits and one hospital visit, nobody could see yet the true problem with my knee. This was not just a case of road rash but a case of an abscess that had tunnelled through my leg during this time, and was 4.5cm deep.
I had a friend over one night and my knee injury was leaking through my pants so I decided to go to the hospital again in hopes they would find what was wrong. Finally they did. They found the abscess that had been tunnelling through under my knee this entire time hidden under the road rash scab. Immediately they referred me to at home care and there began my journey to healing.
My nurses have been angels.They come every day around the same time and fix and re bandage my wound. It is now July I am still slowly healing and this mess started in April.
TWO major crashes. Should I really be driving a car if I can’t even drive an E-Bike? What’s next for me a motorized scooter?
Understand why I don’t want to drive?
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