I am very clumsy so a lot of falling over stuff happens to me, or at least it used to when I was in my teens and 20s.
In one week at uni I managed to:
- Run round the corner to our uni corner shop and fall flat on my face having taken the corner too sharply. Shop was on main road into town and heaving with tourists at the time. Only saving grace was none could speak English to ask if I was ok.
2 . Again running round a bend this time back to our student house, just slid over to one side. End up on the floor to the bemusement of 3 of my housemates who were stood on the doorstep wondering how I'd fallen over on a flat surface.
- In our uni dining hall we sat on very long wooden benches which you couldn't really move, you just sort of stepped over to get in and out. Despite having done this many times a week for nearly 2 years, in the same week I went to get up and basically forgot to move my legs, so I ended up sliding back off the bench ending up on my back with my legs in the air.
Another one...I had very pale legs and before the advent of St Tropez was shit at fake tan so ALWAYS wore tights or stockings. The tights were the thick top ones so I never wore knickers with them.
So one night I'm at a local club. The sort of club where they let you take drinks on the (shiny, slippery) dance floor. I was jumping around to Jump Around, as you do, when my massive platforms (this was mid 1990s) connected with an empty bottle, I slipped and fell. Bad enough except as well as the whole bottle the floor was also covered in broken glass. I jumped up off the floor shouting I was fine, only for my friends to be looking at me shocked minutes later, as my leg was red from knee to ankle. I'd cut my leg on the broken glass and was bleeding profusely.
Went to the loo and took off tights which were bloody and shredded. So now I'm commando, in a short lacy mini dress. This is ok I think so long as I don't sit down or bend over else it will all be on show....
Emerge from loo, club bouncer (who I kind of know and have a bit of a thing for) says he needs to dress it as the first aider...end up going back into loo, fishing tights out of bin (boak), ripping off both tight legs and wearing top part as pants. Get leg dressed and end up with massive bandage round as cut is too big for plasters, and still bleeding. On reflection I should have gone to A&E...