TRYING TO IMPRESS

A gang of boys were doing their best to show off in front of a group of girls they had spotted on a street corner. Being boys, they decided that the best possible way to impress the girls was to ride their bicycles in a dangerous and reckless fashion (jump forward ten years and most of them will still be trying to do the same thing in their Ford Escorts). All went well to begin with and the girls were even humouring the boys by pretending to be impressed but then one junior stuntman decided to go just that little bit too far. Having got up a fair bit of speed, he climbed on to the handlebars of his bicycle and tried to ride along standing upright. For a creature who had barely learned to walk upright, this was a little over ambitious. Inevitably, the bike folded under him and he suddenly found himself with half a handle bar up his butt. Now this really did impress the girls, who fell about with laughter until the ambulance took him off to hospital.

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