I had just come back from visiting my oldest daughter at college. Since she will be done for the year shortly, I offer to haul some of her stuff back home today. One of these items is a large, heavy, metal foot-locker packed with shoes, winter jackets, make-up, whatever young ladies pack that tends to weigh a ton. So, … I am hauling this beast upstairs, both hands grabbing the handles on the end. I stagger up the first flight, “Okay, take a deep breath”, and proceed up the second flight a little faster. I start to lose my balance a bit as momentum takes over, so I speed up.
Almost there!
I trip on the final step.
I am now careening a short distance to the newly painted upstairs landing wall. Time slows down.
I do not want the metal foot-locker to come into contact with the wall that I had spent a weekend painting, so I quickly lower the front end towards the floor and attempt to twist my body to hit the wall with my shoulder.
I manage to accomplish task number one, but fail to get my shoulder in place as the wall zooms in on me, so I brace for impact with the top of my head.
THUNK!!!
Damn! That didn’t really hurt, but it smashed my hat!
Wait a minute, I’m not wearing a hat!
I had managed to embed my head into the drywall up to my eyebrows! The unfortunate part of all this, besides the future drywall repair work I must now do, is that both my younger daughters witnessed this … but no one recorded it to put on America’s Funniest Home Videos!