Stupid moves

[GLC1968]

Have you ever had one of those situations, where you knew that if it had been caught on video, you could submit it to make $$$?

I did this yesterday and I'm unfortunately paying for it today.

Yesterday my husband and I were taking the dogs for a walk mid-afternoon. They were so excited to be going out (and frankly, so was I) that we were all kind of running. DH got ahead of me with one of the dogs while I waited for the dog I was walking to pee in the courtyard. She ended up starting to run mid-pee because she was afraid we were being left behind, so I ran with her. We were heading through an opening in our apartment building (from the courtyard to the street) when I twisted my ankle. I stumbled, but because of our momentum, I kept moving forward (and she kept running, not knowing that I had stumbled). I thought I was going to be able to recover, but boy, was I wrong! I ran right into a door way and managed to stop the full force of my foward motion with the left side of my face and my left shoulder!! I bounced off my face backwards a good couple of feet from the impact. At the same time, the dogs' leash pulled free of my hand and banged into the other side of the door way and cracked open, while my shoe went flying out the doorway and into the street. I saw stars, almost blacked out, and seriously thought I was going to the hospital with broken face bones as I sunk down into a crumpled heap against the door jam.

Then, while crying from pain (and fear), I started laughing and I couldn't stop! I just couldn't stop picturing how incredibly funny the whole thing must have looked. I have to give DH full credit though...he didn't let out even so much as a snicker until I started lauging. No one else was there to see it.

So last night I couldn't sleep because I couldn't get comfortable. Between my aching face, my super sore shoulder (probably the worst pain) and my swollen ankle, it was too hard. Today I opted not to bike to work...I just ache too much, everywhere! Luckily, I don't bruise, so outside of some light swelling of my ankle and my left cheekbone, there is no visible evidence of my stupidity.

Ugh - so...make me feel better. What was your latest non-bike 'stupid move'?

[Trigress]

Not as bad or uncomfortable as yours, but here it comes:

My hubby and I were out trekking, and met a German couple with whom we started to talk. While I was standing there I put my left foot over my right foot, crossing my legs (do you picture this?). Then one od the laceless hooks on my boots caught the laces on the other boot, which I noticed when I was about to move. Both feet "tied" together I was unable to regain my balance, but managed to warn the others: " I am going to tip over". Said and done. Very silly.

I have another one: I was out running, then a twig got between the back foot and the ground, so that I couldn't move my foot forwards: >THUD< on my face. Must've looked seriously ridiculous.

[redrhodie]

(((GLC)))! Ouch! Your poor face! Hope you're feeling okay today.

I once was looking in a store window at night, and couldn't see just how close I'd gotten to the window, and smashed my nose right into the glass, hard enough that I saw stars, and had a headache for 2 days.

[salsabike]

Last night I was walking across the kitchen trying to eat a last forkful of rice. Instead of getting the fork to my mouth, I managed to somehow "twang" it so that it sprayed the rice ALL over the kitchen. I am still wondering if my spouse found rice in his helmet this morning on his commute. The rice was in sauce, and soft, so I had to pick it up grain by grain--any attempt at wiping it up just smooshed it all over the floor.

And then this morning I dropped my eyeglasses right into my coffee cup. Sheesh.

PS May I point out that I achieved both of these things just in the last twelve hours?

[uk elephant]

I do stuff like that all the time...walking into doorframes or tables or any other stationary object daring to jump out at me, stumbling over my own feet, nearly tripping down stairs, falling off the curb......I'm hoping that many minor incidences prevents the buildup of a large and more damaging incidence later....

[OakLeaf]

I slammed the car door into the bridge of my nose two weeks ago. It's still bruised and sore and a little swollen. DH thinks I broke it. (I don't think so though, it doesn't hurt to push the end of my nose sideways.)