# I'm embarrassed - I fell down the stairs on Sunday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818 "2004-10-12T14:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/21 "2004-10-12T20:21:43Z")
Aww! I love your platonics too! 🙂 My revenge name for him is Foolio Loco. An example of why: Imagine it’s three weeks ago during the storms and our power has gone out. We have no less than 8 candles burning all over the house. I state, “Now is the time I wish the smoke detector had a battery in it.” His reponse was, “Why?” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/22 "2004-10-12T20:31:15Z")
I did that a year ago when I was 27. I was going down the bottom half of the staircase to my basement (only six steps, but they’re tall and not carpeted) when I missed the first step and fell forward down the rest. I just sort of went with the momentum and rolled with it, and when I hit the landing, there was an audible “oomph” coming from me. It was sort of like I was launched off the second last step before I hit the floor. I lay still for a few seconds thinking “Am I hurt?” when my dad who was over asked me how I was. I played it off as if it were nothing and jumped to my feet, shaken but unhurt. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/23 "2004-10-13T00:16:44Z")
I fall up the stairs a lot. The dog likes to beat us to the top, no matter who’s in the way. Ardred and I both fell up the stairs at the same time while showing off the then new apartment to his parents. ---
**Author:** ![Carcosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Carcosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carcosa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/24 "2004-10-13T02:56:46Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Ok, it was only the last two steps. > > But still, I’m 28! In a month and a half to be 29! I’m too old to be doing this kind of stuff. Just as long as you didn’t spill the beer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/25 "2004-10-13T03:15:28Z")
We must unite, my clumsy brothers and sisters! But not too close–we’re still bruised. **sWitchazel** , a very appropriate Sailor Moon sig! I always liked her partly because she was clumsy. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/26 "2004-10-13T13:52:50Z")
> [@Carcosa](#): > > Just as long as you didn’t spill the beer. 🙂 Sorry, I don’t drink beer. Don’t hit me! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/27 "2004-10-13T14:13:49Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Sorry, I don’t drink beer. > > Don’t hit me! :eek: Well, that’s part of the problem right there! Beer gives you balance. Just make sure to carry a twelve pack in each hand ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/28 "2004-10-13T14:26:15Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > :eek: > > Well, that’s part of the problem right there! Beer gives you balance. > > Just make sure to carry a twelve pack in each hand No dear, I drink wine. So it would be a bottle in each hand, then? ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/29 "2004-10-13T14:37:49Z")
Ohhh – some falls are just hilarious to me. Not when anyone gets hurt, of course. Years ago in Ohio, on a very cold and icy day, while walking on the sidewalk downtown, my friend started to slip, and it was not just a little slip but one of those pratfalls with the arms and legs flailing and that lasts for a very long time. When she landed, she discovered she’d clutched on to another woman who’d been passing by and pulled her down with her–a perfect stranger, sitting there on the sidewalk with quite a surprised look on her face. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/30 "2004-10-13T16:12:09Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > No dear, I drink wine. So it would be a bottle in each hand, then? I was thinking _box_, but whatever floats your boat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Carcosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Carcosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carcosa)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/31 "2004-10-16T00:54:34Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Sorry, I don’t drink beer. > > Don’t hit me! I would never do that, but I think a good spanking might be in order 😃 ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/32 "2004-10-16T02:13:25Z")
I’m probably the clumsiest person I know, but the last time I fell down the stairs was completely not my fault. You know how Pledge has that squirt and mop stuff, and then has the stuff that also comes in a squirt bottle that you can use on your furniture? Yeah, my sister decided to use the furniture spray on the stairs. So I start down the stairs, hit a slippery(quite clean I’m sure) patch, and slide down the last three steps. I ended up with a massive bruise on my hip, but besides that, my head also crashed into the bannister on my way down. I was less than pleased with her. Damned stairs. Damned sister. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/33 "2004-10-16T02:57:45Z")
Oh, am so glad you started this thread! I wanted to but was too embarrassed. Three weeks ago I was coming in from my rainy roofdeck, shook out my umbrella, and instantly stepped into the water I JUST PUT THERE. My feet went out from under me in a perfect slapstick fall, and down 6 concrete stairs I went. (It’s much funnier in the movies, as it turns out.) The next thing you know, I’m in George Washington Hospital emergency room for 7 hours. I have a fractured sacrum, which is about an inch above my tailbone. All the doctors made that ‘eeeeehhhhh’ face, said ‘It’s very painful and there’s nothing you can do! Off you go!’ I got crutches and percocet, and man, they make you feel like the worst sort of junkie trying to get those refilled. I was feeling some solidarity with brother Rush Limbaugh. I just got off the crutches this morning, which is good because everyone at work was calling me Tiny Tim. I have come to the conclusion that gravity is my arch mortal enemy. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/34 "2004-10-16T03:09:28Z")
**Elenia28** , I have an odd pair of ankles that occasionally turn outwards when I walk about, tripping me up; trust me, I fall down stairs all the freaking time. :smack: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ozchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f6c823/32.png) [@Ozchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozchick)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/35 "2004-10-16T03:19:34Z")
I’m concerned to hear how many clumsy Dopers are out there. I went to school with a fellow who, I heard recently was since killed by falling down a flight of stairs. He would have been in his late twenties. I never liked him - he used to tease me mercilessly - I reckon it was karma. Still, I have nothing against the rest of you so please, watch your step! ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818/36 "2004-10-16T06:18:31Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Ok, it was only the last two steps. > > But still, I’m 28! In a month and a half to be 29! I’m too old to be doing this kind of stuff. > > I was coming down our carpeted stairs with some stuff in my hand. I know the stairs can be slippery, especially if your skin is a bit dry (smooth). On the third step from the bottom, I just slipped and went the rest of the way down. > > I landed on my left side. My foot hurts, I pulled a tricep trying to hang on, and I barked my knuckles bad enough to give me a huge bruise between two of them. I mean, huge. You can see the little pool of blood underneath the skin. > > Eeyugh. Please tell me I’m not the only clumsy Doper. My brother ran into a door and broke his nose, my sister stepped on a pidgeon and sprained her ankle, I tripped over my own foot and broke my toe… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-embarrassed-i-fell-down-the-stairs-on-sunday/268818.md?page=1)