Riders Down but Basically OK

[BKling]

Here's the latest on Martha.

She went back to the orthopedic doc and everything is healing up nicely. She will start some PT on her shoulder next week. It looks more like a bruise than a torn rotator cuff.

She goes back on the 16th and he said if it continues to heal he will probably put her in a brace rather than the boot. Hopefully she'll be able to drive. She has been working some but we have to find someone to deliver her and pick her up. Neighbors are great.

Right now I am chaufeur, cook, maid, shopper, laundry man, nurse, and shower helper, well that last one doesn't sound so bad now does it.

I need a life.

[BMWGirl]

Well, hang in there Bryant! Glad Martha is healing nicely. Please give her my best. If you need help, I can come on the weekends. I'm a girl so I love to shop!!

[Bauer]

Just saw this thread. Wow - glad you're OK and Martha is healing. That was a scary story.

[Yellowjacket]

Right now I am chaufeur, cook, maid, shopper, laundry man, nurse, and shower helper, well that last one doesn't sound so bad now does it.

I need a life.

I will share a couple cigars with you - just to complete the picture perfect domestic life. Got some nice Dominicans lately.

[Blaster229]

I am still trying to figure out the grammatical use of * rider is down * when referring to oneself?

[BKling]

I am still trying to figure out the grammatical use of * rider is down * when referring to oneself?

That would have been "rider's down".

[Blaster229]

I am still trying to figure out the grammatical use of * rider is down * when referring to oneself?

That would have been "rider's down".

That not correct. Rider's ( with apostrophe) is showing that a rider has a *down*. Which is wrong. Riders (without ' ) is plural. How many riders are down? lol

I mean when a writer refers to himself as *riders*, intending to say that a rider ( meaning himself ) had fallen, what is the grammatical use? When a writers refers to himself, not another rider that has crashed. I do believe the correct way would be something like.... "I went down, but i am basically OK".

Is Riders down a reference in the 2nd or 3rd person? I don't know What is Moz referring to himself as *riders*? Can that grammatically be correct?

Comon Chiba, let's hear it

[repo]

That not correct.


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Comon Chiba, let's hear it

Talk about someone who shouldn't be sober.....often.

[BMWGirl]

That not correct.


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Comon Chiba, let's hear it

Talk about someone who shouldn't be sober.....often.

+1,000,000 LOL!!!

[Maria V]

That not correct. Rider's ( with apostrophe) is showing that a rider has a *down*.

Bzzzzt, incomplete answer.
The use of rider's could also be shorthand for rider is.
I did almost say your answer was wrong, but nope...Blaster is correct.

[Unity]

Why isn't Martha considered a rider? Two riders down. Bryant is okay. Martha is basically okay.

--John
(Sure, we often call pillion riders "passengers", but she was riding, not walking. Not passengering. A rider.)

[Maria V]

Why isn't Martha considered a rider? Two riders down. Bryant is okay. Martha is basically okay.

--John
(Sure, we often call pillion riders "passengers", but she was riding, not walking. Not passengering. A rider.)

Well....duh. I don't have a better answer than that.
Sometimes the obvious eludes us.

[Blaster229]

I thought this was Moz's crash thread??

[DogHouse]

I thought this was Moz's crash thread??

Nope

[Hello Kitty]

You're right, Rick. Mikey thought this was Moz's thread. But Moz did the same thing - refer to himself in the third person.