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The following story is not for the faint hearted or the under eighteen.

About two years after the chain on my bike started slipping, I replaced it and the rear sprocket on my bike. Considering that the result of its first slipping was my broken knee cap and eight weeks in a cast, plus the fact that it only cost about 35 dollars, some people might consider this a slow response. But after hearing the result of the repair, I think I could have waited a little longer.

The repair guy also adjusted my brakes when he changed the chain and in fact it was this repair that caused the accident. I was coming home from work riding on the left edge of the left lane. Remember, this is proper and correct in Japan.

A car was passing me on the right as we moved down a small hill. Suddenly, the car signaled he was turning left and in fact started turning. At this point he was only about six feet in front of me. I slammed on my newly reconditioned brakes and they caught hard. Centimeters from hitting the car I stopped. But the force of stopping threw me off of the bike saddle and onto the cross bar. Every boy has had this experience, but this was harder, faster, stronger than anything in my life. The cross bar rose between my legs, neatly splitting, but missing both my testicles, but slamming into my cervical bone. Stars, a wave of red color before my eyes, and a deep rhythmic drumming in my ears is the best I can do to describe the sensation.

I rode home and on inspecting my equipment found that the sack for my testicles was actually torn and bleeding. Seeing your balls bleeding is a pretty unnerving experience, but nothing compared to the sight of my poor penis the next morning covered by deep purple, black and blue bruise. It looked like something out of a gay s/m magazine. I chased Shizuko around the house saying, "look at my penis", but she was not having any of that. I took the whole thing down to the doctor and had him look at it and he said, it should OK in a couple of weeks, but if I had any, you know, "trouble" I should come back.

Well that put the fear into me and I immediately went home and told Shizuko about her duty, but she was not having any of that so I was left to the internet and my own devices. I am happy to say that everything seems to be working properly. This was actually a couple of weeks ago and classes have started, the scab on my balls is old, dry and starting to itch so I have to resist that urge while I am teaching.