LOL! Good grief, man, it was a joke! You just deconstructed it down to its subatomic components, leaving nothing but a pile of gray goo. You're like the LHC for jokes.
Well, my response was basically a joke too (of course he meant being hit by a bus), my brain just brought up other possibilities right away and I ran with it to show how something as simple as that phrase can be ambiguous.
Although I probably did come across as a pedant considering how straight I wrote it, so fair enough.
Although I probably did come across as a pedant considering how straight I wrote it, so fair enough.