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August 09, 2008
You always hope, or at least I do, that at some point in my life I will have an impact on people. My prayer is that it will be through a gesture or kind word. But I do fear sometimes the impact will only come in a moment when I am cranky and people will walk away thinking, "Wow - she's a charmer."
Let's just say... I put the Flop in Flip Flop. I should have been clued in when I first got in The Car. The little plug in the hole by the toe thingy (I don't make the shoes - don't judge my lack of proper names) popped out. So I popped it back in, and then when I pushed on the brake it popped out. So at the next red light I popped it back in. I grabbed my list, my purse, my keys and off through the parking lot I ran. And it popped out. And I took a nice flailing spill behind the Suburban 3 spaces over. I have to admit I said a bad word. Ok 3. And then I popped up, popped the plug back in the hole by the toe thingy and shuffled my way into the store, looking around in a feeble attempt to pretent nothing ever happened. As if the skinned and bloody knees weren't a dead giveaway.
And when walking around making sure everything was satisfactory the people in the table closest to the DJ said, "Hey - we saw you at the grocery store today. You fell - and we were very impressed with your recovery time. Good job!" We all had a good chuckle, I did a faux reinactment for the rest of the table and I was on my merry way.
Posted by Foodwhore at August 9, 2008 02:32 PM 
FW, They never said your 15 mins. of fame was going to be the type you'd like! Please consider yourself an inspiration to others... how to go down and get up and keep going. :) I bet if it were an Olympic event, you'd get the GOLD. Hurray for band-aids, neosporin and you! Posted by: LisaInCT at August 10, 2008 06:03 AM Ha. I *love* this blog. I thought you might like to hear from a fellow person-who-spends-her-time-checking-gravity: you are not alone. My husband has stopped trying to catch me when I trip for fear I will take him with me (which has happened once or twice). Posted by: Jennie at August 10, 2008 09:18 AM I think you handled it gracefully. Good for you. And you are right - maybe not the best way to get attention, but no reason you can't take it. Posted by: Muffy Willowbrook at August 10, 2008 06:31 PM Oh, I dunno ... "good recovery" sounds like a genuine compliment to me ... perhaps you need to reframe yourself as "graceful under pressure." Posted by: pelican at August 11, 2008 06:55 PM You just make me laugh! I think 'good recovery' says alot about your character. Fall on sister! Posted by: sue.g at August 12, 2008 06:10 AM Why do shoes conspire against us??? I fell off a barstool on Saturday night completely stone cold sober because I couldn't handle my Big Girl shoes. I was wearing heels, which I rarely wear, and had the heels hooked over the rail of the stool. When I went to lean forward to talk to someone, they stayed hooked, and I crashed to my knees on the floor of a bar, at 10:30, with about 40 million people watching me. Some of whom I work with. I should either wear heels more often, or never wear them at all. Posted by: PenelopeKate at August 12, 2008 06:07 PM Oh, yeah, embarrassing moments etc...by the way... Posted by: Ben at August 13, 2008 06:57 AM  |