It's not nice to laugh but . . . . . .

A friend of ours has just returned from Germany and told us of his rather funny- I mean painful- mishap.
He was waiting for a plane and had a few hours free and so he decided he would have a short wander around the town which he hadn't visited before even though it was raining torrentially.

Now to set the scene you have to know that he is a very large and weighty man and is a stranger to the gym and also has a very painful knee injury which flares up now and then.

He decided to use the moving walkway that goes downwards to the underground station but as he took his first step onto the moving floor he realised that it was extremely wet and slippy and he fell hard onto his posterior. He managed to pull himself up with some difficulty due to his sore knee but then to his horror he noticed that the underground had flooded with about 2ft of water and he was heading straight down to it!

He about-turned and started to run up the walkway as fast as he could and tried to catch the attention of people at the top and get them to press the emergency stop button. Even though he speaks fluent German nobody would help and he had to use all his energy and determination to run up the moving belt faster than it was moving down.

There was a MacDonalds cafe situated at the side of the walkway and all the people had a ringside seat to enjoy the entertainment.
The poor man did manage to finally drag himself to safety but then had to try to hobble with two bad knees.

I have only now stopped laughing as I couldn't help but remember a conversation I had with his wife just last week. She was saying that she worried about his health a lot as he never took any exercise! I think he has made up for that in one session.