to wish I wasn't so clumsy

[SlightlyJaded]

DH out for the evening so thought I'd treat myself by putting DCs to bed on time, having long bath and sticking a Pizza Express American in the oven to enjoy in front of TV :)

Managed to put DCs down without major event. Yay. But then dropped lovely new expensive glass bottle of bath stuff (gift) directly into un-run bath, thus smashing it. Gutted as was saving this for exactly such an evening. Spent the next 20 minutes wiping, rinsing etc to make sure 'luxury bubble bath' didn't turn into 'razor blade slasher film' bath. Had bath. Got out, slipped and stubbed toe.

Cooked pizza - fine
Took pizza out of oven - burnt hands
Couldn't find pizza cutter thingy so decided to cut with scissors to ensure neat edged slices - cut through iphone charger cord.

Yes I am on my period, yes I do seem to get clumsy but wtf? Is anyone else this accident prone?

Urm..

NO.

You did make me smile though

Oh yes, im as bad, if not even worse than what you have described.
I can't pick the sky remote up, i have to use both hands
I get called silly mummy by my 2.8yr old because im so useless.
I am very un-coordinated, very clumsy, and am the only one who can cook here, so i end up with lots of burns, cuts etc
I think i read somewhere that there is a so called 'clumsy' gene and women are the main carriers lol!
I get worse when im tired btw.

Sorry but had to giggle at the scissors bit.

It is makes you feel better I undressed the pillow in my sleep and tried to stop it crying, when ds was crying in the next room.

@ Strawberrycake. That is brilliant. I actually spent a good 15 minutes once trying to work a massive splodge of bird shit off my car - in and out the house with warm soapy water etc... only to realise that my car was actually parked 3 cars down the road...

Not as much I don't think but I do go through stages ofbeing very clumsy at times.

I tried to make coffee yesterday at work after a particularly noisy classroom. I dropped the coffee from the spoon, I spilt milk on the side and then burnt my hand on the boiler water from the boiler above the sink!

I think i read somewhere that there is a so called 'clumsy' gene

Google Dyspraxia

Oh NO!!

I keep telling my friend that her 6 year old will grow out of it (in hope that it will stop her giving her away to anyone that will have her a good home!!).

I will not be telling her that her DD might grow up to be like you .

I hope tomorrow is a better day for you!

RandyRussian

not everyone who is clumsy has dyspraxia. Some people really are just clumsy!

Hi I am so clumsy too, I hate it.

I have crap eye to hand co-ordiantion. I can make things tip jusst by looking at them.

SlightlyJaded - I inherited the clumsy gene from my lovely Dad. My neat & dextrous husband has to deal with plane meals involving sealed containers etc. for me at the grand age of 46 ! I have grown into it. though, and attribute some of it to time-pressured rushing around, and some of it to being helped to often by said DH so I have no interest in difficult, fiddly or mechanical things. Had 11 years of piano lessons & can't play two hands together ... I look at my Dad's (now inherited) piano and wish I could have played it to make him happy :( He also tried to teach me ballroom dancing and got black toes by way of thanks! My son has inherited the 'two left hands' gene. This led to problems when we, as a family of 5, were on a 'fun' mini-safari in Thailand and co-ordination was required to paddle our canoe out of choppy waters. The photo taken by the tourguide shows grim determination on the face of DH and DTDs aged only 9, who were trying to right the damn thing as we headed for the Indian Ocean :)

Funnily enough, my feet work just fine. For me it's more a hand / eye thing (I think!) and defo worse on period. Managed to 'miss' the cereal bowl this morning...

Me too when I havwe a period. Is there a name for our syndrome?
The cooking burns heal nicely, and are burnt over the next month etc.

I too am very clumsy. I am constantly tripping over things, catching my sleeves on door handles, and I am covered in bruises from bumping into things all the time.
I am always on tenterhooks going out or visiting people as I think I am going to break something or fall over and make a prat of myself.

I suspect I may well be dispraxic but I can't see the point in getting an official diagnosis. I've just resigned myself to the fact I am a big klutz :(

I am a clumsy typer so I have to double check everything I type - I get words wrong, I know what I meant to type but somehow it comes out wrong, sometimes I'll end up typing the opposite of what I mean!

Like I'll say OP I think you can go off and have an affair, but really I meant to say can't!!!

I am def worse when having my period.
Like KAra I cant walk through a doorway without bumping or catching something, and I am not thatbig either.

I get very nervous in china shops.
And eating out, always knock glasses over

Really glad to know I'm not alone with my bruises, torn clothes (aargh - pockets getting caught on doorhandles !!!), black eye earlier this year from running into (closed) patio door, I could go on !!! But I can speak three languages fluently and run a big department in a busy secondary school, so I somehow keep the metaphorical plates spinning in the air ! Who cares about a few annoyed neighbours on the plane when our drinks squirt into their eyes ?!

you know, my younger Brother has dyspraxia.
Does it run in families?
How do you go about testing for it, as they level of clumsiness makes me quite self consious most of the time.
Always good to cross it out IYKWIM.

I canot open a yogurt tidily