Who has fell down and wasn't drinking!

[RR Fan Dan]

 

[1967coronet]

Right before we closed our shop one day we are in the office for a coffee break.
My brother , me , 3 or 4 local guys.
Out from under a desk comes a mouse I chase it down in the office , it runs onto the corner and I stomp it.
All the guys are like damn you still move pretty quick.
I picked up the now dead mouse and open the door to take him outside and tripped over the threshold landing flat face first in the drive.
The dead mouse ( who was just stunned or knocked out) comes to looks at me a runs off.
The guys laughed until they were crying.
I got a few nick names that day.

 

[Hey-O]

It’s sucks though when you still feel like you can do it.

My father used to tell me that all the time as he aged. I got it, but didn't, now I really get it. It seems that every year passed 60, feels like a few. I'm aging in dog years.

 

[YY1]

Not too long ago, I was ....no I had been drinking...

Then there was the time I....no, drinking then, too.

OK, this one time....naw, drinking again...

OK, OK, I was up on this.....no, still drinking...

 

[Cranky]

I used to work as a Framer walking a 2 x 4 top plate with a 8 foot fall on one side, and 4 stories on the other. Now I get vertigo standing up.

Used to do the same pretty much....mostly 1 story houses though. Used to walk a freshly framed house no sweat. Now, I don't even want to be on roof of a finished house!

I had a couple of falls from a ladder beginning about five years ago. Did ladder work for 45 years as an electrician and couldn’t believe it when it happened. So I took it as a sign and put my ladder work behind me. It’s sucks though when you still feel like you can do it.

Yup, it sucks

Right before we closed our shop one day we are in the office for a coffee break.
My brother , me , 3 or 4 local guys.
Out from under a desk comes a mouse I chase it down in the office , it runs onto the corner and I stomp it.
All the guys are like damn you still move pretty quick.
I picked up the now dead mouse and open the door to take him outside and tripped over the threshold landing flat face first in the drive.
The dead mouse ( who was just stunned or knocked out) comes to looks at me a runs off.
The guys laughed until they were crying.
I got a few nick names that day.

The funny part is the mouse coming to look at you lol. Hope no broken nose or worse?

 

[Cranky]

Judging by the title of this thread, it’s obvious that adult beverages were involved at some point.

Nope....the afternoon before there was. This happened around 9am and I'm not one to grab a beer first thing in the morning.

 

[AR67GTX]

I actually seem to fall less accidentally now than when I was younger. It may be I’ve developed more of a slower shuffling gate, who knows. The exception was carrying something around the edge of our pools rounded end this summer and wasn’t looking down and cut the corner a little close and in I went. I climbed out as fast as I could and looked all around hoping no one had seen it.

Hope you heal up fast Cranky.

 

[YY1]

We have cats.

A few of them are experts at placing themselves exactly where your foot or leg will be at the exact moment it will be there, while you are off balance and transferring weight.

 

[1967coronet]

Used to do the same pretty much....mostly 1 story houses though. Used to walk a freshly framed house no sweat. Now, I don't even want to be on roof of a finished house!

Yup, it sucks

The funny part is the mouse coming to look at you lol. Hope no broken nose or worse?

Lol, just skinned my hands, yeh tha little fckr just run off no worse for wear.

 

[Cranky]

We have cats.

A few of them are experts at placing themselves exactly where your foot or leg will be at the exact moment it will be there, while you are off balance and transferring weight.

Never had more than one cat or more than one dog but....had 3 prairie dogs at once some years back. When they are on the floor, they all go in different directions and usually at a quick pace. Gotta really pay attention to where you step with those guys!

 

[themechanic]

I suppose a cane or a cool walking stick is out of the question?

Don't let pride put you out of commission.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

My Mom had to brake her arm and hip before she git a walker. The last fall put her into a longterm care facility where she died.

 

[toolmanmike]

Damn, be careful! Have a nice trip? See you next fall.

 

[Kern Dog]

My arms and legs look like I owed the mob money and didn't have it to give.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Have neuropathy in my feet from pernicious anemia. I have to be extremely careful walking if I trip at all I'm down. Have fallen 8/9 times this year. I'm no light weight but when I fall I pull my arms to my body. No stick arms out to break arms or wrist. Still breaking a hip isn't good.

 

[Davefinan]

My arms and legs look like I owed the mob money and didn't have it to give.

……and that’s only if you can’t pay the interest

 

[Cranky]

I suppose a cane or a cool walking stick is out of the question?

Don't let pride put you out of commission.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

My Mom had to brake her arm and hip before she git a walker. The last fall put her into a longterm care facility where she died.

I'm still fairly steady......just got tripped up by a wadded up cheap water hose that wasn't pliable because the weather was cool and the hose was stiff. It wouldn't have happened if I had laid it out along the edge of the driveway hedges instead of wadding it up in a pile.

My arms and legs look like I owed the mob money and didn't have it to give.

Knotted up shins? I probably shouldn't laugh....

 

[Kern Dog]

Nah, scrapes and scars.
For many years I worked in just shorts and a T shirt. I'd scrape myself at work, at home working on cars and doing other guy stuff.
My arms too...I didn't get scuffed up from sitting at a desk, that is for certain. I have evidence of my life and I'm okay with it.

 

[JackR]

The kid has an equipment tech at a mine on Tuesday. Guy turned and fell off the equipment His wedding ring got caught on something and he lost the entire finger on the way down. Yikes.

 

[SlingLow]

Well, I had a stroke about 8 years ago at age 57, so yeah. I didn't get the muscle paralysis or slurred speech, but it affected my vision and balance. Two days after the stroke I came home with a walker (that lasted 2 days). I was remodeling my master bath at the time and was determined not to be a vegetable, so I immediately resumed work. I was doing a knockdown texture on the ceiling, working on a two-step stool looking up. Not only would I fall off the stool, but once, I went down on my hands and knees on the floor - and still fell over sideways. It took about 9 months for that 'hangover' to go away and for me to get back to relatively normal status. Nowadays, the vertigo comes seldom, usually when I move my focus too quickly or change planes with my vision. I haven't fallen since last summer when I was re-slotting a slot car on my track and stood up too quickly. I got vertigo but couldn't move my feet to regain balance since I was standing in the middle of the track and went down hard. This was in my sunroom which is vinyl tile over porcelain tile on a slab-on-grade concrete floor. I separated my shoulder on that one. I'm not counting falling down in the woods while hunting. That happens less often now than in my youth as I am slower and more deliberate, but it still happens now and then.

 

[Cranky]

Nah, scrapes and scars.
For many years I worked in just shorts and a T shirt. I'd scrape myself at work, at home working on cars and doing other guy stuff.
My arms too...I didn't get scuffed up from sitting at a desk, that is for certain. I have evidence of my life and I'm okay with it.

Very rarely wore shorts when I was working construction or around the house but usually didn't wear a shirt unless I had a sunburn. These days I wear shorts around the house and shop. You wouldn't think my legs are still white as can be. Not much hair on them anymore either but never did have a lot of body hair.