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She looked at th ofher eyes back on mine

I snorted “It’s the offseason, Con I can do a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t normally do Such as ride my bike without a helmet”

She frowned “Why can’t you do that during the season? Not that I want you to or anything Do you kno many motorcycles are hit every day? A lot People just don’t pay enough attention Anyway, I had a young patient last week, all of eighteen, who got hit by a sedan He was bruised up pretty bad Had that sedan been a truck or going just a little faster? He’d have been dead”

I waited for her rant to be over, and then waited a couple seconds h and then explained

“I signed a seasonal clause on safety During the season, from the start of pre-season workouts to post-season, I will not, under any circumstances, participate in any extre aa ot thrown out since I was part of a ned my contracts with my old team, a contract which the new team also honored”

“What else does it include?” she pushed

I shrugged and turned my back on her to wash my hands in the sink behind me

I turned my head and explained over my shoulder “I can’t ride without a helames of football with full contact I can’t play any sports, really, that require hts I can’t go to concerts and stand in a large crowd…there’s a bunch of shit”

She snorted “Didn’t I see that you went to a Garth Brooks concert in Vegas not too long ago?”

I grinned as I shut the tap off, and then reached for a sheet from the paper towel roll Once my hands were sufficiently dried, I blew my nose into the towel

Once it was in the trash, I turned to find her frowning at me

“What?” I asked

“You just washed your hands, then blew your nose You’re not planning to wash your hands again, are you?” She curled her lip up at me