2.2 Fence

I was walking back from the bar the other night with Garam, Hiroshi and Jun. There's a bunch of construction in downtown Angers since they started building a tram and 3-foot metal fences run along the sides of the sidewalks. I turned to these others.

"Who doesn't think I can jump over that fence?" I said.

"What?" Jun said.

Still parallel to the sidewalk, I leapt and attempted to rotate over the fence in mid-air. My left foot caught on it and I fell towards the asphalt. I caught myself on the palms of my hands. My chin bounced off the gravel.

"Nicolas!" said everyone.

"Ha ha ha" said a bunch of French dudes on the other side of the street.

"I'm fine" I replied with a shit-eating grin. I got up and walked parallel to the group, still on the other side of the fence. I looked at my torn up hands shaking my head and giggling at my stupidity. I wiped a bit of blood out of my beard.