Busted Rib

Peg Leg, I could teach a class for the clumsy and insane as I fell twice that day, once in the morning tripping over a bungee cord while stepping off the porch (landing on thick mulch and unharmed), then that afternoon stepping onto the porch, slamming onto concrete. I just didn't pick my feet up high enough. Twice.

I can't believe I'm admitting this on the www.

antiquedrose, admitting it is nothing it's the one's that are around to constantly remind you that bother us the most.

I can tell a lot of stories about falling, 40 plus yrs of tripping over my own leg. Like the time we were cutting across a parking lot one night in Vegas. I tripped over one of those cement stop blocks. The rest of the family just said I was roadkill and kept on walking. They said I looked like that possum on the half shell you see on the road side.

Peg Leg wrote:
antiquedrose, admitting it is nothing it's the one's that are around to constantly remind you that bother us the most.

I can tell a lot of stories about falling, 40 plus yrs of tripping over my own leg. Like the time we were cutting across a parking lot one night in Vegas. I tripped over one of those cement stop blocks. The rest of the family just said I was roadkill and kept on walking. They said I looked like that possum on the half shell you see on the road side.

Oh, are not those cement stop blocks an invention of the devil? Who among us hasn't been mugged by one of those? And how convenient of the parking lot planners to put them right in front of the disabled parking spaces. :M

Now the story behind this picture should start out: I was in this biker bar and....
But noooo, all of this damage, broken nose - 18 stitches, fractured skull with bleeding into my brain and almost every rib broken or seriously bruised was done by a pool noodle. :S

Walking across the parking lot to our community pool, pool noodle resting on my shoulder, wearing a pair of Croc's. Pool noodle slips off my shoulder and curls between my feet. Strofoam noodle and rubber Croc's bind up and bam, down I go face first, never even got a hand out. My bride says I hit the hot asphalt (May 31st, temps above 100), like a sack of wet cement. Knocked unconscious for several minutes I come too with a crowd standing around me and guy saying "stay down mister, you're hurt real bad". My bride had called 911 and 20 minutes later the paramedics arrived... from the station one mile away. :h

The point being, don't feel bad about the busted rib or tripping over a concrete block. I think tripping over a pool noodle takes the prize for foolish falls. The nose healed up alright but the busted ribs took almost two months and man O man the first couple of weeks were not much fun....even with the drugs. :E

My gosh! Desert Captain, you surely have nine lives and used up two of them after that fall. Wow.

The crocs...I quit wearing the original style because I kept tripping over nothing while wearing them. I haven't had that problem with some of the new styles...maybe I was tired of the fashion police trashing the shoe and was subconsciously trying to kick them off.

Your family is a hoot, Peg Leg. BTW, do you have a peg leg?! Not to be indelicate with the question, I have a feeling you can take it.

CA Poppy, we did take a 120 mile RT two days ago to listen to music for a bit. I worried about the bumpy country road, but managed quite well. I'm still in the healing mode and can't do too much but the scream-out-loud pain seems to be over, thank God.

Y'all be good

Why, Desert Captain, what purty green eyes you have! Other than that, I have a photo that would come in second to yours, I am sure. Because of eye problems, I have no depth perception and also cannot see the ground in front of me if I am looking straight ahead. Thus I stepped into a tree hole in the middle of a concrete walkway,that happened NOT to have a tree in it. Came up with two huge black eyes and a scar on my forehead that makes me look permanently, er... ticked off. For about a month afterwards, strangers would look at me and then at DH with that, "Why you dirty *&^%#@!" expression on their faces. :E Hey, we have to take the humor where we can find it, right?