He probably should have seen it coming the moment he heard "four!" bleated like a goat with a can in its throat. Perhaps he did see it coming, for he certainly looked up at exactly the wrong time - just in time for it to land on his face.

"MY EYE!" he screamed, which in his memory would conveniently never have happened. "MY EYE! I'M BLIND!"

The buckling to the ground and clutching the entire right side of his face in agony would not, in his dutiful recollection, happen either.

"MY LAWYER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!" the lawyer choke-sobbed.

Or that part.