To each their own, but each should own a helmet!

My best use of a helmet was snowboarding near Vancouver, I don’t actually remember the name of the hill for reasons that may become clear, but I do remember asking my sister in law “if I had fallen recently” to which she very curtly replied “YES!!!” I thought it was rather rude as it was only a question until she explained that it had in fact been the 7th time that I had asked in the past 5 minutes and she was quite frankly, rather tired of it. I had taken a rather nasty fall backwards caused by catching an edge at speed and slamming head first into some very nice ice.

To this day I don’t remember getting up, finishing the run and riding the chair back up with my brother and sister in law. I start to recall things there at the top of the hill when my brother and I were going to race to the bottom, then nothing, then asking if I had fallen.

You might ask why this was a good story about wearing a helmet. That is because I was wearing a helmet. I still smacked my head hard enough to give me a very nice concussion and I shudder to think of what that patch of ice would have done to my bare skull had I not been wearing it. I am still fairly sure that the concussion was the cause of getting 27% on a midterm a few days later, but that without the helmet I would have scored a solid 0% for life.