008 Fail of Epic Proportions

[autumnmuse]

So I pull into work at the same time as one of my co-workers (that I actually like). I decide to wait for her to park so we can walk in together.

As we cross the parking lot and are about to step onto the main path, something absolutely horrible and unbelievable happens. My right foot steps on some type of gravel rock the size of the grand canyon ... and since I can't talk and walk at the same time ... I didn't notice it. I knew I was going down when I got that "Uh oh" feeling in the pit of my stomach. Sure enough, in super-slow-motion I manage to twist so I don't land on my hands and land instead on my left butt cheek and knee.

Queue the flaming red face, my gaze dancing around rapidly to see if I catch any curtains being nudged aside as I am sure the entire neighborhood just saw me tumble and fall!

Thankfully my coworker didn't laugh in my face. She helped me up, picked up the offensive rock and tossed it into nearby bushes. Then she proceeded to tell me about the time she broke both wrists ... at the same time. See why she's one of my favorites? 

Got inside with only a slight limp and proceeded to tell my best friend, who also works right next to me, the whole ordeal. First thing she does? Bursts out laughing. Not just tiny giggles ... no, full blown hyena laugh! Of course, I may have been telling the story in a way to get her to laugh, but that's NOT the point.

Queue coworker who witnessed the ordeal coming down the hall. I tell her how my best friend just burst out laughing at my horrific experience, and she shakes her head at her in shame. Win for me! LOL 

In all seriousness though, I am not hurt. My knee is a little bruised but another favorite coworker sneaked her way downstairs and got me some ice, which was very nice of her. I iced it for about half an hour and now it's feeling much better.

But yeah, it always makes me laugh how my first reaction is never "Am I okay?" but "Okay, who the hell just saw me fall like that? Must hunt them down and silence them!" ha-ha.

So that was the start of my day ... How has yours been? Lol

I am just very happy I have the next two days off work. What's sad is that I am very excited to play the new World of Warcraft expansion (which is why I took the time off... yes, I am a huge nerd). I managed to hit level 56 on my Hunter yesterday. I hope to get the last 4 levels today so I can boost her before the expansion. I want to concentrate on my main, a paladin, the next four days and try to get her as close to level 100 as possible. Oh yeah I gotta post the screen cap of her transmog gear ... Ill do that later today.



 

Comments

[booksyarntea]

Omg. I'd be right there with you wondering who the hell just witnessed that monstrosity of embarrassment!

[autumnmuse]

lmao! That is always my first thought :D Sad, I know :D

[t_hale_capital]

Dude, that would totally have been me, too: "omg, nobody saw that! Er, I totally meant to do that!"

Hope your knee is OK :)

[autumnmuse]

lmao! Yep! I totally meant to do it. It was part of the daily entertainment for everyone else's viewing pleasure ... duh! :D

It is much better now, thank you!

[aeris]

Thank goodness you weren't eating anything, you might have fallen into oblivion. LOL. I kid, I kid. :) I'm glad you're ok though.

[autumnmuse]

lmao! Yeah if I'd been eating something ... oh lawd ... I would have died of mortification :D Apparently I cannot walk and talk at the same time... sad ): LOL

Thanks!

[zerenitia]

I wish I would have taken the day off for WoW today D: I preordered my expansion ages ago but I'm more worried about the damn queue to even get into the servers today. I can't even set myself up before work or anything because I might be home early or I might not be so I don't know when I'll be home to log on T__T

I'm very sorry about your fall. I know I'm one of those people who if I see someone fall depending on how, I might burst out laughing--watched a coworker slide right off her seat at work - okay, to me that's hilarious. Someone biffing it in the parking lot from their feet worries me a lot more, it's only a giggling matter after I know the person's okay and not like, you know, in need of serious medical attention |D;

I love your reaction to the fall though. It's not quite the same but once when I was still manager in my kitchen job I was cooking a quesadilla for a customer when several feet away one of my cooks was cleaning the grill with some really potent chemicals. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but our hood fans had been acting weird lately and my boss ignored all my requests to check it - so when the chemicals were dropped on the grill, mushroom-clouded upwards and the fans instead of sucking up the fumes with the steam blew it in my direction where I took an involuntary whiff of it and collapsed to the ground instantly dry heaving and like...I basically felt like I was choking. I couldn't breathe, it was only chemicals I was breathing every time I opened my mouth or breathed through my nose and I couldn't move because my body's reaction was so violent that I was actually hurting everywhere.

My staff picks me up under my arms and drags me outside to get fresh air and when I'm able to breathe properly again the first thing I ask is "Did that quesadilla go to the table?!"

Like I said, not the same but I think I can kinda say I know where you're coming from there? XDD

[autumnmuse]

Have you been able to get into wow? LOL That must be my first question! (:

And thankfully I didn't hurt myself too bad in that moment or else yeah ... and I can definitely laugh about it, even as I was getting up, I was laughing. My co-worker is a good friend so I was telling her the story in this whole dramatic way to try and get her to laugh, so it was all in good fun :D

I laugh too if I see someone slip or fall as long as I know they're okay :D I think its a natural reaction lol

Awww @ the smoke/not breathing. That must have been scary ...but lol @ your "did the quesadillas make it?!" question <3 That would have been me too and it is the same lol ... We all do silly things in moments of panic (: