So I'm at the car wash the other day running my second car through the express wash line. When the scanner reads the bar code on my car the machine spits out a receipt I'm supposed to give to the attendant. Since its a little too far of a reach with my left arm I release my seat belt and lean out the window to try to grab it with my right. It was at this point I felt it, I pulled my right oblique muscle.
I knew it was strain right away also, so I swallowed my pride and proceeded through the wash without the receipt.
Its been a couple days and the obique muslce is still a little sore but otherwise gradually healing like it should. If it was a complete muscle tear (I thought it might be at first) I wouldn't be able to move properly and there would be a lot of bruising. I've been lifting weights since I was 12 and been doing marthathon training for the past 10 years, so to have this happen at a car wash while reaching for a receipt is just damn embarassing.
Now I realize that this can happen to anyone but the picture I can't get out of my head is an old man falling down and breaking his hip.