Scary way to spend a Father’s Day, but well wishes poured in from around the globe. And more importantly, his kid got the message.
In our increasingly fractured world, it’s rare when a whole bunch of people you know (and who don’t necessarily know each other) send you the same thing and say “You have to see this” anymore. I’m going to guess it’s that way for you, too. It’s just the way of things.
But a bunch of folks I know had to send me Gordon Ramsay’s Father’s Day message this year. Now, I’m admittedly a pretty big believer in ATGATT. I won’t even ride to the gas station without my helmet. It’s just not how I’m built.
And that usually carries over to other types of riding, as well. Bicycles and e-bikes? Helmet. Roller skates? Helmet. I tried riding a bicycle without a helmet once recently, just to see if I could. It felt totally wrong, and I’ll probably never do it again.
Apparently, neither will Gordon Ramsay after a nasty crash in Connecticut. He’s a big bicycle guy, and he had a crash so scary, he was visibly shaking in the video he recorded for his Instagram for Father’s Day.
While he doesn’t go into great detail about the crash itself, the post shows both Before and After photos of his gear. Toward the end of the video, he also lifts up his chef’s jacket to show a truly astonishing purple bruise that seems to have taken over the entire left side of his torso. It almost looks like top-level special effects makeup, except it’s real. And it’s absolutely horrifying.
