I can’t even remember the last time I fell to the ground non-sports related.
I hate how movies will have the lead actress walking along and trip over absolutely nothing and fal flat on her face for no apparent reason except for a laugh. I think the first time I saw it was in Miss Congeniality. Now it seems like every female lead has to do this in every movie.
Okay, so it’s looking like I’m not some kind of freak for being able to walk without falling down. I apparently have some odd friends and acquaintances.
Are they older? Diabetic with neuropathy in their extremities? Drunk?
It mostly happens when I’m running after strays. It so bad that when I show up at work after doing a faceplant, people just ask if I caught the dog/cat.
Unless alcohol’s involved, I can’t remember the last time I fell down. I’ve had a few close calls with stairs (going down two instead of the expected one that resulted in a frantic run), but…yeah.
Being a bit of a klutz, I stumble every now and then, but I can’t remember the last time I actually hit the ground.
If I wore heels more often, I’d definitely faceplant more.
When I was younger, I loved playing soccer and running around, and twisted my ankles so badly and so often that it seems to have left me with really screwed up ankles, to the point I worked in a ski resort for three years and never once got on skiis 'cause I could just imagine how well THAT would go.
As an adult, 99% of the time I’ve tripped/fallen/etc., it’s been while wearing heels.
Which I don’t do very well, even though I love heeled boots.
Just hate falling over in them. >.<
I’ve fallen all the way to the ground once in the last 6 years. I was going down some cement stairs carrying packages. I somehow landed in a way that allowed me to escape injury entirely. However, it was in front of a lot of people and very embarrassing and since then I always at least keep a partial eye on where my feet are when I’m on stairs.
I move like a paranoid old lady now, since going through years of constantly falling down. I’ve just about destroyed my knees with some bad falls. I had babies in my 40s, with a final one via c-section, and being out of shape to start with, it left me with no strong core muscles. To stumble or slip was to fall. Also, I am a dork.
I’m very much a klutz, have issues with dizziness, a bad ankle and arthritis in my knees. Therefore I’m very much aware of where I’m walking and stay within grabbing distance of handrails you bet. I bump into things a lot and am usually liberally sprinkled with bruises but I rarely fall. The only thing I’ve ever broken in a fall has been my tailbone fortunately.
I never fall down, but I do bump into things like walls and chairs very frequently.
Hopping rock to rock to get to better fishing spots or walking on river beds tends to make you fall sometimes.
No falls for as long as I can remember… But then again, I was born with perfect coordination and I’m still young… I’m sure I have lost balance or done something stupid to fall over but they were very rare instances… Saying that, I’d hate to get old
I have balance problems off and on since the medicine withdrawal, but I’ve never actually fallen because of it. And, before that, falling was a non-issue. I don’t even remember falling much as a kid: it only happened when I tripped or when I was first learning to ride my bike. I don’t even tend to fall on ice (though I haven’t tried it since the withdrawal.)
I have balance issues and arthritis in my knees and hips, so I nearly fall maybe once a month. I don’t actually fall, but I do end up jarring myself by doing everything I can to prevent myself from hitting the deck.
It’d probably be worse and I’d probably have more falls, but I constraint my activities to avoid situations with falling danger. In wintertime, I don’t walk anywhere that’s had snow/ice removed that isn’t obviously ice free. I’d rather walk in snow than on a dubiously scraped/shoveled surface. I’m super careful when it rains, too.
I bump into things frequently (spatial awareness difficulty is an ADHD thing), but it’s always bruising, never falling over.
I can’t remember the last time I fell. I did it way more often when I was younger, say up to my mid 20s, but even then it was perhaps four or five times in a year. These days it’s possibly once every three years, or even less frequently than that.
Not that I’m particularly graceful; I still trip on kerbs or hit my elbow into doors. I just tend not to fall.
A couple of winters back I was walking across my parking lot at work, it was in a shaded area that tends to accumulate several inches of ice of the course of winter. As I was walking, I could see a small hole in the ice with a steady stream of water running under it (just run off from a different part of the lot). Wanting to look at it, I quickly changed direction…my shoulder, hip and ankle all hit the ice at the same time…that really hurt, but it was the last time I’ve completely lost my footing and my own stupid fault. As soon as I decided I wanted to look at that stream of water, I knew if I changed direction that fast on wet ice I’d slip, but my feet were already moving. I still don’t know how my feet got high enough up in the air to hit the ground at the same time as my shoulder.
I only occasionally stumble on stairs, but before my wife was diagnosed with MS she feel down a few times at work. At the time she chalked it up to her ankle giving out, but in retrospect it was an early indicator of the MS.
I slip on ice maybe every 2nd or 3rd year. The last non-ice incident was 3+ years ago was a hidden puddle on a stone floor & one shoe just had zero traction.
I can’t even think of the previous non-ice event; probably a decade or more ago.
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I like private polls here but I won’t respond to a public poll here. Meanwhile, I don’t mind telling my story in detail in a posted response. What’s up with that thinking / emoting?
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