# Evidence that I am in fact the LEAST coordinated person in the world **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443 "2004-01-03T06:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/1 "2004-01-03T06:41:58Z")
Or maybe its that I don’t move through space well. Or don’t interact well with objects, I don’t know, but I have a remarkable ability to injure myself by banging into things/ tripping over things/ hitting myself with things, as if I’m operating my body by remote control and I don’t know how to work the joystick. I have poked myself in the eye with the leg of my sunglasses. I have walked into door jams too many times to count. I have opened cupboard doors into my own face, and closed them onto my fingers. I walk into the corner of my desk with depressing frequency, as if it has crept out into my path from one day to another. I fell down the stairs this summer – stairs I have been walking up and down all my life. But today was perhaps the ultimate: I was getting into my car at 7-11 today (Diet Coke, Baked Lays) and I whacked my head into the roof/ door jam while getting in the driver’s seat – whacked myself hard enough to bring tears to my eyes and see stars. This of course raises all sorts of questions: Do I drive a jacked-up hoopty that I recently radically lowered, so that I mistakenly thought the door was higher than it is? No. Have I suddenly grown six inches so that I can no longer clear a standard Honda door frame? No. Did I amuse the hell out of the homeless guy drinking his morning beer on the curb who, though down on his luck, was clearly congratulating himself on being smarter than I am? Yes. And am I too retarded to walk around without a keeper? Apparently so. If there is a club for the hopelessly uncoordinated, I would humbly nominate myself as president. In the meantime, I will endeavor to spend the weekend without (a) injuring myself; (b) doing anything to appear stupid; or © providing unintentional comic relief to others. This will involve sitting very still in a chair in my apartment, and touching nothing. If any of you are, like me, hopelessly clumsy, I salute you. Or I would, if I could do so without poking myself in the eye. ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/2 "2004-01-03T06:52:05Z")
I opened the cupboard above the fridge to get pain relief for a hangover terrifying in its intensity. Then I walked into the open cupboard door and almost broke my nose. I frequently have unexplained bruises all over my body. I think I’m so used to walking into things that I just don’t notice any more. I’m generally OK at moving two legs together, both arms at the same time, etc., but anything more than that is beyond me. For instnace, if I try to use my brain at the same time as my limbs I frequently run into trouble. (RUN? Who am I kidding? Stagger in an uncoordinated manner, more like). ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/3 "2004-01-03T06:55:59Z")
Erm, that would be for INSTANCE. I knew I shouldn’t try to think and type. And **Jodi** I tried to raise a toast to your clumsiness, but I ended up spilling it all down myself. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/4 "2004-01-03T07:08:23Z")
For those about to run into the corners of their desks, we salute you. ---
**Author:** ![Nimbokwezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bcef8e/32.png) [@Nimbokwezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimbokwezer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/5 "2004-01-03T07:17:12Z")
Well, for the most part I am usually “with it” and coordinated. However, one night, being very tired, I poured myself a nice cold napkin of milk. Yes, a napkin of milk. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/6 "2004-01-03T07:36:40Z")
When I was pregnant, I closed my tummy in the refrigerator _every day._ A few years ago I had some facial surgery. My first day back to work, I tried to walk out the door, my hand somehow slipped off the panic bar. You can probably guess… I rebroke my nose and had to have the surgery redone. I think I have a cleft on the top of my head from standing up into open cabinet doors. I wear food at every meal. In high school, my best friend described me as “graceful as a squirrel, C-O-W, squirrel.” So, no, you aren’t the least coordinated. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/7 "2004-01-03T11:58:38Z")
Thanks **picunurse** , i now have chewed up bacon butty all over my monitor. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/8 "2004-01-03T12:01:18Z")
Obviously on the tummy thing, not the nose. I only laugh at relatively harmless misfortune. (I assume the child didn’t have any lasting damage from this early trauma? An unnatural affinity for salad crispers, for example?) ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/9 "2004-01-03T12:07:18Z")
**hybrid\_dogfish** , it’s a good thing I haven’t had breakfast yet, otherwise _mine_ would be all over the screen! 😃 \*_Jodi_, it appears we have something else in common – I’ve also been known to whack my head on the side of my car. There’s also an unfortunate incident in a nightclub when I was sort of moving to the beat and hit a fellow squarely in the nuts. He was quite nice about it, and we exchanged phone numbers, but nothing came of it, for which I think I’m grateful (“So, how did you two meet?”) The worst incident, however, involves me and a stationary forklift, which was complicated by remarks from the plant’s safety manager a few weeks later. To quote _The Gods Must Be Crazy_, “I don’t want to talk about it.” CJ ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/10 "2004-01-03T12:49:53Z")
I hit my head on my car regularly. I just don’t acknowledge my car’s attempts to humiliate me any more. This week, we’ve moved a lot of books from one place to another at work. This involves taking them off the shelves, putting them on a cart, and putting them back on other shelves. I managed to hit myself in the face with books regularly. I’m rather amazed that I don’t have a black eye from a couple of the whacks I gave myself. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/11 "2004-01-03T13:49:38Z")
Based upon [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=221768), y’all need to get our friend **LostCause** into this discussion. Paging **LostCause**! You’re not nearly as alone as you sometimes feel. In fact, it would appear that you’re just one of the gang. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/12 "2004-01-03T14:20:59Z")
Another klutz checking in. I can trip over the rug. The best incident occured when I was talking to someone, picked up the phone, and hit myself square on the nose. Blood poured out, and the person I was talking to fainted dead away. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/13 "2004-01-03T14:28:28Z")
I feel much better now, after reading this thread. I STILL have bruises on various parts of my body, but I feel better. My husband swears that I can trip over a chalk line on the sidewalk. Some days that appears to be true. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/14 "2004-01-03T14:35:36Z")
Oh, and **Siege** , there’s supposed to be a double movie DVD coming out this spring, of _The Gods Must Be Crazy_ and _The Gods Must Be Crazy II_. I know what _I_ want for Mother’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![Teegus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Teegus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teegus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/15 "2004-01-03T14:36:39Z")
You are so not alone with the car thing **Jodi** Early last year when I still had a car, some thoughtless clod had parked their Box-On-Wheels exceedingly close to my car’s side. I could open the door just barely enough to slide in and had to gingerly slip my head between the door and the frame. I somehow hit my right ear on the frame and inexplicably jerked my head to the left by reflex, causing me to whack my left cheek and ear against the edge of the door. Coordination at its best. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/16 "2004-01-03T15:05:05Z")
While I don’t believe I’ve ever hit my head on the door frame of my car, I _have_ opened my car door and hit myself squarely in the eye with the pointy top corner. I had a bruise under my eye for a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/17 "2004-01-03T19:05:31Z")
Try bending down to pick up something and smacking your forehead on the counter. Probably resulting in some brain damage: in highschool, at the lockers area…i would be crouching, then as i get up, i implant the pointy part of the locker door of the person above me on my head… OUCH indeed. I slaute thee, wrapped in bubblewrap. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/18 "2004-01-03T19:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Try bending down to pick up something and smacking your forehead on the counter. Amen, brother! (Or sister.) I was once preparing to use the toilet, and during the combined motion of dropping trou and sitting down, I bent forward and smacked my head on the towel rack mounted on the wall opposite. Good times, good times. :rolleyes: Congratulations, fellow klutzes, on your (our) continued survival in a hostile world. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/19 "2004-01-03T21:25:55Z")
I have weak ankles, and as my feet pronate inward, I have a tendency to trip. Over my own feet. All the time. I also walk into doors, and often slip down the same steps that I go down several times a day in the house that I’ve lived in for 11 years. I always manage to catch my hair in the door as well. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443/20 "2004-01-03T21:27:06Z")
Oh yeah, and whenever I bend down to get something, I always manage to bang my head on a table/counter/whatever on my way up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-that-i-am-in-fact-the-least-coordinated-person-in-the-world/222443.md?page=2)