The one legged guy at the Mobil gas station...

There was a guy who worked at the Mobil station near my workplace in DC. He was sans a leg and did a very good job of working with his disability. One day I worked up the nerve to ask him what happened to his leg. I was expecting a "it got shot off in the war" type story. He explained that he had a broken leg and he had a cast on it when he went water-skiing. He wiped out the leg flew up and smacked him in the head knocking him out. I asked "Did the leg come off then" he said "no but it was mangled beyond repair and they had to amputate".