# You're sitting on the floor. Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734 "2014-11-05T11:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/1 "2014-11-05T11:40:53Z")
The obvious follow-up to the others. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/2 "2014-11-05T11:42:54Z")
I…what now? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/3 "2014-11-05T11:44:53Z")
Get up, dude. OK to use your hands. To get up. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/4 "2014-11-05T11:50:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Get up, dude. OK to use your hands. To get up. Probably should have checked alcohol involved. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/5 "2014-11-05T12:03:36Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Probably should have checked alcohol involved. I should have offered _It is the way of my people. A cultural thing._ **Mods** , wanna get on that, por favor? ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/6 "2014-11-05T12:04:54Z")
I’m not. I’m sitting on a chair. You might want to check your surveillance camera. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/7 "2014-11-05T12:08:49Z")
WTF?!?.. Which of you fat bastards stole my legs!!! ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/8 "2014-11-05T12:08:57Z")
I’m playing with the cat. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/9 "2014-11-05T12:14:14Z")
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/10 "2014-11-05T12:16:55Z")
I have grandchildren. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/11 "2014-11-05T12:17:29Z")
It was there. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/12 "2014-11-05T12:46:36Z")
Was trying to clean something. Now I’ll have to sit here till it gets dirty again, unless somebody hauls my ass up. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/13 "2014-11-05T12:53:01Z")
Providing wound care to ankles or feet, most likely. It’s not dignified, but it works. (Although I’ll remember to bring my stool next time.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/14 "2014-11-05T13:50:35Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. This. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/15 "2014-11-05T13:58:34Z")
I am mulligrubs ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/16 "2014-11-05T14:17:40Z")
Dog snuggling, mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/17 "2014-11-05T14:18:51Z")
Yoga. How many hands or legs are used to stand depends on (a) how many the instructor allows me to use and (b) how far along we are in the class… beginning of the class, one leg or both hands (no legs). End of the class, I’ll just lie here until everybody leaves, and then crawl away. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/18 "2014-11-05T14:40:41Z")
Because I have a 3 year old son and a six month old son, and I’m likely sitting on the floor playing with one or both of them. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/19 "2014-11-05T14:42:57Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Yoga. How many hands or legs are used to stand depends on (a) how many the instructor allows me to use and (b) how far along we are in the class… beginning of the class, one leg or both hands (no legs). End of the class, I’ll just lie here until everybody leaves, and then crawl away. I figured by the end of the program you’d simply levitate & float home while still in the lotus position. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734/20 "2014-11-05T14:52:31Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I have grandchildren. This. Between board games, Legos, Lincoln Logs, etc. I spend a lot of time on the floor. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sitting-on-the-floor-why/703734.md?page=2)