Whiplash is Commonly Associated With...

... motor vehicle accidents, usually when the vehicle has been hit in the rear; however, the injury can be sustained in many other ways, including falls from bicycles or horses.

Thank you Wikipedia, which is basically trying to say that if you are gallopping at freaky speed on a very spirrited horse who has got it in his head to race with your sister's equally spirrited steed, and then said horse trips (having encounterred uneven ground), you will go flying right over the top of it's head and crash head first into the ground.

In the moments which follow your thoughts will be:

(static while brain re-orients itsself....we get a signal)

PAIN

Lots of PAIN

(large quantities of adrenaline is now pumping through blood-stream)

PAIN all over so you can't move

(Heart-rate is equivelent to having done 20mins on the treadmill PLUS Jack Human)

Ok, just stay still and wait it out

God, I know I can't be lucky twice, but please don't let me be paralised!

PAIN

God. God. God. God. God. God. God.

Ok PAIN is easing

(Power returning to mothership...all systems are up but running slower than usual)

Someone's coming back for me...Oww..no don't move yet...PAIN...God God God...

Shit there's sand in my eyes!!

And later you will be mighty thankful it was sand in your eyes and not concrete against ur face. And the deep meanings of many a wisdom will dawn upon you such as why stalions are made into gelldings; and why when a person falls he/she must fall so utterly and dramatically, with pain to emphasise the sheer wretchedness of their situation; and why life is too serious to take so seriously. I owe this one to Wilde I think, so I should credit him. --Never mess with a gay.

On a not entirely different note, Pixi is officially a closet adrenaline junkie.

Adrenaline hit number one: 5 year-old Pixi spins round and round and round and round and round then makes a dash right in the hight of blind dizziness.

Pointless moment-of-truth thought: "I'm a stupid kid with no real reason to do this"

Outcome: Wham goes 5-year old into some wall. Cries and is quiet for a few hours.

FAST FORWARD 20 YEARS

Adrenaline hit number sixty-eight: 25 year-old Pixi speeds up dune-hill on quad-bike and flies off the top, action-movie style.

Pointless moment-of-truth thought: "Shit. This will hurt."

Outcome: Quad-bike lands with magnificent force with direct impact on spine, resulting in minor fracture.

Adrenaline hit number sixty-nine: 26 year-old Pixi accepts challenge to race big-Sis on spirrited steed that don't see jack-shit else when it sees red.

Pointless moment-of-truth thought: ... <-- has run out of poigniant poeticisms

Outcome: Whiplash