So finally, the inevitable happened. I fell. The problem is, it has been snowing, and the snow has been compressed by cars, shoes, bikes etc. In some areas the roads are now literally smooth and icy enough to go ice-skating. I have these metal spikes that you can put under the shoes, here they are called ‘grandma socks’, but, being Dutch and all, I just had to fall at least once for me to realise that it might be nice to actually start using them. So I slipped and fell. Luckily I have been equipped since my childhood with a extraordinary thick skull, and I have reason to believe that my skeleton was reinforced with the strongest metal on earth during a super secret governmental experiment of which I have no memory, so I was fine.
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