A trip and a fall

Today while picking up the dogs (Mia and Stella) at the dog day care my legs became tangled in the leashes and I fell.

I estimate it took me a good 45 seconds to actually complete the fall. There was the initial trip, a brief unsuccessful attempt at recovery, and then a series Frankenstein steps, until I landed on my right knee, which lunged my body forward resulting in a face plant into the front door.

I almost took out a water bowl.

Of course there were about 5 witnesses.

"Are you alright you hit that door pretty hard," a lady picking up a Standard Poodle said.

I quickly made a swipe of my nose, (the imprint of which remained on the door), thankfully no blood, yet my sight was compromised by tears welling up in my eyes due to my orthopedic injuries.

Although I wanted to remain on the ground I jumped up quickly.

"I'm ok," I announced to no one in particular and then limped to my car as fast as I could.

Gioconda says there must be a genetic component to my falling as I come of a long line of fallers. In the mornings I feed all the animals and although there is not any real climbing, there is walking on uneven ground, which is always a hazard for me. Ok, lets be honest, if I am in an up right position it's a hazard for me.

"If sometime I don't come back in the house you know to come looking for me, right?," I'll remind Gioconda every now and then.

I'm relatively confident I don't own an animal which if given the opportunity would eat off my face or disembowel me, however, the pigs are opportunistic and unpredictable- and I don't want to take the chance of having any body part gnawed off, so I keep it out there just in case.

Personally, I find the humiliation of falling more horrific as the pain.

Given the choice I would gladly sustain a painful injury in front of no one, rather than take a non- injury fall in a crowd, a crowd like the one at the dog day care today.

"I am so never going back there," I told Gioconda.

"That's just silly. You are already the person who fell," she replied.

Perfect.