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Post by thyme4change on Sept 4, 2014 8:08:39 GMT -5
Last night I was walking down the street (in f*#%king flip flops) and I stepped in a small pot hole and crashed down to the ground. I now have scraps on my knee and foot. I was so embarrassed. I have fallen a few times as an adult when I was walking in a perfectly normal situation. I never see anyone else eat dirt like this. Actually, that isn't true - I watched one of my neighbors go over. He is a huge guy and he just tumbled off the edge of the sidewalk - I swear the earth shook when he landed.
Have you ever had a minor fall? Have you ever seen anyone do it? Do you think they are drunk, or an idiot or whatever?
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Sept 4, 2014 8:12:57 GMT -5
When I was in college I was running to class and I tripped and did a full superman style dive landing face first on the ground, giant hole in my awesome khakis. I am sure tons of people saw it. It was embarrassing. I can't remember if I continued on to class. Probably not.
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 4, 2014 8:21:20 GMT -5
I tripped December 1, 2010 and double dislocated my right elbow. I was walking with my GF to the bus stop and I tripped over a slight ridge in the sidewalk. I wore a cast for 2 weeks then had rehab for 5 weeks more.
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 4, 2014 8:22:26 GMT -5
I have fallen on the basement stairs at work twice in the last 6 weeks or so. The first time I was carrying a large box of books down to storage and missed the last step. I didn't fall dramatically, I just sort of crumpled and put myself down on my side. I did, however, turn my ankle a bit and was limping about for the rest of the day. I realized how lucky I was that I didn't injure myself worse. I was much more careful on the stairs in the next few weeks, but prepping for our booksale last week I tripped on a step going up this time. Again pretty lucky - I went down on a knee while the box went right on the landing, so not bad at all. Of course, the booksale doesn't end until Sunday, and then all the leftover boxes of books have to go back down until Memorial day. Boss just had surgery, so we are trying to keep her from heavy lifting. Hope we clear lots more out!
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Post by swamp on Sept 4, 2014 8:35:52 GMT -5
I do it all the time. I have ankle issues. Yes, I've been seen wiping out all over the place.
They probably think I'm an idiot.
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Post by achelois on Sept 4, 2014 8:47:30 GMT -5
I used to have problems in my right ear--eventually had several surgeries to fix--that led to my falling a lot. I would not get dizzy or anything, just fall. One minute I would be upright, the next on the ground with no sense of the fall or of any time between the two.
It would happen sometimes when I was walking the dog (a sharpei at the time). I swear the neighbors must have thought I was drunk.
Nobody ever came over to help me, though, even when it happened directly in front of them, so I am glad I could get up on my own and go after a minute or two.
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Post by flutterby on Sept 4, 2014 9:02:35 GMT -5
One Christmas of all days I was walking down the driveway to get the paper, and my dog ran into the back of my legs, knocking me down. I knew right away I couldn't walk so had to crawl back into the house. I waffled between hoping no one was watching me and wondering where the hell all the neighbors were so someone could help me. That was a broken hip. I was 26
We were at my son's baseball tournament when I tripped over a ridge in the hotel sidewalk. Lots of people saw that. Broke my foot in three places.
I tripped going into the post office. It was slushy (spring time), so while I didn't get hurt, my pants got all wet. Lots of witnesses. That was embarrassing.
I was walking down the steps at my sister's a few months ago, and somehow tripped. She has maybe two rocks in her entire flowerbed and I managed to hit my head on one of them. I lay there stunned for a second thinking "Oh God, I'll have a concussion or have dislocated my jaw!" Nope, I was fine except a bit of a black eye. I can't believe she didn't see me flopping around in her flowerbed like a dying carp, but she got a good laugh when I told her about it later.
There's probably more I've blocked out due to the humiliation factor.
I never thought of myself as a klutz, but maybe I am.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 9:03:38 GMT -5
A friend and I take our kids to Philly a few times a year. One year we went during cold season and it was icy... I kept harping, slow down, be careful, watch... I was right in the middle of another cautionary statement when I slid right on my ass... I was the only one who fell. They laughed till they cried and never let me forget it...
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Post by Bonny on Sept 4, 2014 9:32:31 GMT -5
I'm a very talented hiker. I sprained my ankle hiking Black Mountain UPHILL. Now that takes talent. I then sprained my ankle the following year just short of the turn around spot on the Pinnacle Peak trail. That was two miles limping back to the start place. I was training to hike the Grand Canyon in three weeks. I did do the Rim to Rim hike but I broke it up over a couple of days and used trekking poles. The funniest was a hike in the Superstition Mountains. A friend (a former Maricopa County Park Ranger) got us lost trying to find the Flat Iron Trail. We were hiking on very tiny game trails and pretty much hanging onto cliffs for a couple of hours. Our hiking buddy was terrified. We got off the trail and were hiking back to the parking lot. We were no more than 100 yards from the car and I fell TWICE! The second time I was laughing so hard my friends had to help me up!
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 4, 2014 9:44:21 GMT -5
I've had my share, mostly bike falls. A few trip-and-falls, one resulting in a broken tooth. One bike accident that left me with a black and blue arm from elbow to wrist. Both knees are considerably scarred, as are both elbows and both hands. I'm surprised I haven't broken anything yet. I need to get better at it, that's all.
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Post by movingforward on Sept 4, 2014 9:55:14 GMT -5
Several times! Let's see - in college there was melting snow outside (it was extremely sloppy and wet). I walked into the building, slipped on the floor and fell down in front of everyone.
In my mid 20's I was walking down the steps at work while talking to someone, obviously wasn't paying attention, slipped and fell down the stairs.
About 5 yrs ago I was at a conference in Dallas with about 1000 other people. During one of the breaks (before the next session started) I tripped over some box of papers that for some reason was sitting on the floor.
Last year I was ice skating and my toe pick caught on the ice and I fell face forward. I bruised up my face, hurt my knee and needed someone to come help me up. I think that was the most embarrassing one simply because I really hurt myself. The others I just laughed off.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 4, 2014 10:03:05 GMT -5
There but for the grace of sturdy footwear go I.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Sept 4, 2014 11:06:52 GMT -5
I fell off a pair of wedge style shoes and broke a bone in my foot. I was walking back into the house to get something I left and DS was sitting in the van. Funniest thing he ever saw he said, I just disappeared all of a sudden. Took him a couple of minutes to get out and see about me. Brat.
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Post by resolution on Sept 4, 2014 11:07:47 GMT -5
I have slipped and fallen going down our stairs a couple of times. Socks and hardwood floors are a slippery combo when I am moving too fast.
As a result, DH had to put banisters on all our stair cases so I have a rail to grab if I slip. Our older home was build before code required it, and didn't have any.
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Post by lexxy703 on Sept 4, 2014 11:20:27 GMT -5
At my previous house I named my outside stairs leading into the house the "optical illusion stairs". I fell up them & down them dozens of times. My friends fell down. My mom fell down them. I don't know what the deal was with them.
About 3 years ago I was going into the garage with a bog of trash in one hand & a bage of recycling in the other. I stepped of the first step & was free falling. I landed on my left knee on the concrete. It was swollen for months. I swear it never did fully recover. If I touch it there is still a dull ache.
The most embarrassing was getting off a plane & falling down the stairs. Of course all the people working on the ground had to come & make sure I was ok (and wasn't going to sue) so I was surrounded & couldn't just slink away quietly.
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Post by Abby Normal on Sept 4, 2014 11:24:41 GMT -5
I had a hard ass professor in college. It was a small class of about 30 and he made it very clear that you did not miss class and you were not late. He announced on the first day that if you were late or missing class you had better be in the hospital. He was known for failing people for missing class. It was my last term and I needed to pass the class. Anyway, I was roller blading to class (you can see where this is going) and fell. I was covered in blood and dirt and scraped up to high heaven. But I made it to class just after prof started lecturing. He took one look at me and said " valid excuse- go home- but well done for coming in anyway." Then he excused another student to help me home.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 4, 2014 11:32:59 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever totally fallen in plain site, but I've definitely tripped a lot and caught myself. One time I walked out to my car and there was a major ice storm. I slipped and caught myself...like I was on a surf board balancing....I then took a sideways wipeout on my shoulder.
When people fall, I usually think it's funny but don't judge because I know it will happen to me.
My kids, on the other hand, fall all of them time. So much so that I think they must just be gigantic klutzes. I feel like if they ever run more than 20 yards, they are definitely going to fall.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Sept 4, 2014 11:39:07 GMT -5
I fell at Disney World. I was hurrying to get to a ride; it had rained earlier; and the surface between two buildings in Epcot was wet. I went down and landed on my hands and knees. Plenty of people saw, and several came to help. No one in my family though; they never noticed and kept right on going.
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 4, 2014 11:45:05 GMT -5
A few months ago my mom tripped and fell at my sister's house, walking out to the car. She had sunglasses on, and they probably saved her eyes (the lenses were all scratched up), but the frames got jammed up into her face and she was pretty black and blue around the eyes. She also got some gravel in her palms & knees, and her arms were bruised, and I think she had a split somewhere on her face (they glued it, and it is invisible). There was a family wedding in a few weeks, and she was hoping she'd be looking more normal by then. She looked much better, but didn't realise that she'd been tensing up due to the soreness in her arm/shoulder, until she was working on the wedding cake and couldn't lift it. We were worried she'd broken a rib and didn't realise with all the other aches and pains.
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Post by cronewitch on Sept 4, 2014 12:06:45 GMT -5
I find falling embarrassing but also painful. The worst one was while hiking in the rain in tennis shoes. I was running down a mountain and at a hairpin turn my right foot stuck in the mud rest of me kept going. I had to walk down the mountain more than a mile with a broken leg. I was careful when passing other people not to let them see me limp even though I was in a hurry to get back to my truck. The parking lot locked at dusk so I had to get down. I have plate in my leg now. I have fallen on stairs twice and on ice once but no surgery from those.
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Post by Abby Normal on Sept 4, 2014 12:09:39 GMT -5
I find falling embarrassing but also painful. The worst one was while hiking in the rain in tennis shoes. I was running down a mountain and at a hairpin turn my right foot stuck in the mud rest of me kept going. I had to walk down the mountain more than a mile with a broken leg. I was careful when passing other people not to let them see me limp even though I was in a hurry to get back to my truck. The parking lot locked at dusk so I had to get down. I have plate in my leg now. I have fallen on stairs twice and on ice once but no surgery from those. You broke your leg and still hiked down. DAYUM...
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 4, 2014 12:12:38 GMT -5
I fall/trip so much that DH told me he's going to invest in a set of body armor for me. One of the worst was shortly after Gwen was born and I was making my way down the porch steps. I apparently thought we had four steps instead of three and down I went. I twisted myself in an attempt to make sure the carrier landed right side up. I twisted my ankle and shredded my knees but the carrier did land up right. Didn't phase the kid at all. I laid there for a few minutes hoping no one had seen what just happened. I dusted myself off and continued to the car like nothing happened.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 4, 2014 12:57:08 GMT -5
Years ago when DS2 was in 6th grade and in the middle school marching band he just finished marching in a parade and we were walking back to where we parked. I was carrying his shiny new trumpet that I just paid $1000.00 for (yeah, that lasted a very short year until he discovered he really does have talent for drums AND guitar). I stepped off a curb and felt myself going down, but I wasn't about to damage that trumpet, so I threw my arm up that was carrying the trumpet and took the brunt of the fall on my other knee and elbow. NOT pleasant. I checked the trumpet for damages (none) and kept on walking. I don't handle embarrassment well.
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Post by snapdragon on Sept 4, 2014 13:05:28 GMT -5
One of my more memorable ones was when I was with a bunch of co-workers and we were playing a gimpy version of baseball. Well the backyard was not very level and I managed to run and trip into a rather large hole in the backyard. I got up everyone was telling me to "walk and run it off." I was younger than and ignored my ankle and we all went out drinking. The next morning my ankle was about 3 times the size it should have been and very colorful. Luckily it was not broken but badly sprained which sucked because I drove a stick and I couldn't switch cars with my mom because she can't drive a stick (or ride a bike for that matter). Another fun fall was also work related. I was wearing a nice top and skirt set with sandles and it was the end of the day so I was hurrying and I somehow ended up catching my sandle in the hem of my skirt and I went down hard right in front of one of the bosses. Thank goodness only 2 people saw me go down or there would have been photos and a mention in the company holiday letter.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 4, 2014 13:48:22 GMT -5
Just in the past 7 years at least 3 times.
- DH and I were riding our bikes and he said something to me. I turned my head to the left to hear better and there was a grate in the road that I didn't see. My tire went in it and threw me off my bike. I swear to God I saw my face heading straight for the side walk but it was like I suspended in air and was gently laid in the grass on the other side of it. I have NO idea how that happened and I don't remember even having one scratch. But my bike was full of dirt and the handle bar was actually stuck in the dirt. I was laughing so hard I couldn't get up and DH thought I broke something. He was horrified. I have no idea if anybody noticed. It was near the Club House and tennis courts and hopefully the players were concentrating on their game and not the idiot on the bike.
- I was in my backyard dead heading my rose bushes and there were large rocks framing the fountain where I had them. I went to step back and didn't lift my leg high enough and caught the rock. Next thing I saw was blue sky with both hands in the air. One was holding the pruning shears and the other was dead rose blooms. A neighbor was sitting on a bench next door with his young daughter and either didn't see me or didn't want to embarrass me but I laid there LMAO until I had tears streaming down my face. I can NOT get up when I'm laughing. I didn't know that but I get weak with laughter and literally have to laugh it out until I can get back up.
- This happened about two years ago? I had showered, washed my hair and dried off but needed to put something back in the shower. When I stepped in (I move really quick so I had full momentum going walking from the other side of the bathroom) and my foot slipped out from under me when I stepped in the shower. I was half in and half out of the shower so my right knee and foot slammed to the tile floor with my full weight and my left ankle slammed down on the frame of the shower. No laughing this time. I was stunned with the pain it hurt so bad and groaned until it passed. My knee immediately swelled to the size of a grapefruit and it was very red and inflamed. I could not walk, dance or anything for months and months and still have problems now and then. That's why I lecture people here to go to the doctor when they fall. Do as I say and not as I do. When I dance my ankle and/or knee will randomly give out on me now and then so I probably messed something up.
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Post by NastyWoman on Sept 4, 2014 14:13:20 GMT -5
I took an epic dive this January in Seattle. I was visiting because of the birth of my DGS and was hurrying along because DS and DIL were bringing baby home and I wanted to meet them. Didn't look where I was going so next thing I know I went down hard ->I broke my upper arm in 2 places and hit my head so hard I had my first shiner ever (was a first for the breaking of bones too). So here we are 7.5 months later and I still have PT for my arm. Good thing the kid is so darn cute or I would have disinherited him
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 4, 2014 15:00:10 GMT -5
Umm, just last Thursday.
I was taking the dogs to the dog park. It was just after 8am on a weekday, so no one was around. The dogs and I were on one of the wooded trails that lead from the parking lot to the dog park. We stopped so they could sniff a tree. When I was ready to get moving again, I took a step backward.
There were three pops, and I was on the ground. (I apparently stepped into a depression.) I dropped the Beagle's leash in the process. Amazingly enough, she did not take off after a squirrel and stayed right there while I grabbed her leash (my absolute first priority). Then I struggled to my feet, apologized to the dogs, and headed back up the trail to the car.
I was so glad it was my left ankle and not my right. About half way home I called C and told him he would need to come get the dogs from the car and take me to Urgent Care.
We spent the entire morning in urgent care (two sets of x-rays to make sure I didn't break anything). My foot and ankle are still covered in major bruising (C says he's afraid I'm going to get a blood clot it looks so bad), and I am keeping it wrapped. There's still swelling, and I don't have full range of motion back, but it's getting better.
To add to all of this, I had two phone interviews scheduled for Thursday morning that I had to reschedule AND it was Pop Tart's birthday.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 16:33:48 GMT -5
DH has MS and absolutely no balance. He falls all the time. I swear he's made out of rubber as he has broken nothing yet. My most memorable fall was after my first freshman year of college (yes, I was a freshman more than once) and I decided to try out my old roller skates. Went to my friend's house where he tightened the wheels. Went home, skated into the house and into the kitchen meaning to stop at the stairs to sit down and take off the skates. Oh, something went so wrong. Crashed into the kitchen wall, twisted my ankle and landed on it when I went down on the flat of Pepsi (ick) cans that were by the door. Made the mistake of taking my skate off. Yeah, called my friend asking him if grapefruit-sized lumps on ankles meant a sprain. Not a chance. Dad came home at that point, took me to the hospital furthest from our house and hit EVERY FREAKING POTHOLE on the way. Yep, it was broken. Those roller skates went into the trash. I could tell when a rain storm was coming for the next 10 years, from my ankle swelling. Hell, my dorm could hear me coming down the hall because it cracked so much!!! Physical therapy got them off my back.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 4, 2014 16:48:05 GMT -5
I don't want to think of the number of times I've fallen, but it is more imperative now than ever that I NOT fall because unless I have something to brace myself on, I cannot get up.
I did have my first fall after Humpty Dumpty was put back together last December. I tripped over the raised pavement in the driveway (which I have reminded myself to NOT trip over repeatedly). It was 4 am and when I went down I called for TD. He tripped over the same raised pavement and fell on top of me!
After I fell, I rolled to the right and didn't feel any bone move in my left hip. Then I rolled to the left and the bone in the right hip was ok too. I was halfway under my car, so had to maneuver myself such that I could open the car door so that I could brace against it to get up.
My pants were soaked and muddy, but my bodywork was still intact!
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Post by flamingo on Sept 4, 2014 17:00:48 GMT -5
This happened to my dad, not me. But it's too funny not to share.
So about 10 years ago, we were at Olive Garden for dinner. My dad has bad knees and sometimes has trouble judging distance/depth. Not a good combination. As we are walking out of the restaurant, my mom and I are in front of him. There is a set of 3 steps down to an area with a few tables, then the main lobby/entry way is off that. Mom and I make it down the steps. Next thing we hear is a loud CRASH BANG BOOM, and my dad's voice saying "Hi, I'm Jack, and I'll be your waiter tonight." We turn around, and he is sprawled across a table for six, having knocked all the drinks and salad off the table and onto the floor. We can't see anything but his back and his feet kicking out behind him. Mom and I are laughing so hard, we just keep walking. The table of 6 was stunned and didn't really know what to do with him. About 5 minutes later he managed to make it out of the restaurant. Mom and I are still laughing hysterically, Dad is limping and has salad dressing all over his shirt, and the manager is trying to flag him down. In all of this, I guess he dropped his leftovers and management wanted to make sure we didn't go home without it.
We still laugh about this to this day. Never eaten in Olive Garden again, but every time we see one, we laugh.
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