This sounds like the title of one of alejna’s pants posts but it turns out I do have perilous pants. And a sprained foot. Of course if it hadn’t been raining and I hadn’t been seriously squiffy my pants might not have got the better of me…
Yesterday I went out at lunchtime to meet my friends Annie and Eduardo for the first installment of a Tapeo Extremo (a term coined by Annie on our first mega tapas crawl together just over two years ago) and I wore a new pair of linen trousers. One thing led to another and when I was finally walking home around 1 am I suddenly found myself flat on my back on the wet pavement. I thought I’d slipped on the slick surface until I got home and discovered that the one of the trouser hems had partially come down. So this has to be one of the stupidest accidents ever – tripping on my own pants!
What’s the stupidest accident you’ve ever had?
I did something like that myself in my senior year of high school. “Elephant” pants were stylish at the time and you could hardly find anything else — pants with wide legs all the way down, not quite like the relatively recent fad of bell bottoms. So I had two pair that I pretty much lived in, and one day I was going down the staircase between floors of the school, and my ENTIRE FOOT became engaged with the hem of the pants on the other leg. As it swung forward of course my other foot followed, and only my grip on the railing kept me from dropping straight onto my can. As it was I performed a messy but slightly less damaging evolution down the stairs, sort of a diagonal roll. I still remember the eerie feeling of both feet off the stair at once.
Stairs have become my bete noire. I also once missed a step while going to pee in the middle of the night buck naked in a house without a bathroom on the floor where I slept, and sprained my lumbo-sacral joint and could only sit on a stationary bike seat for a week. About ten years back I nearly repeated the stunt while carrying laundry down stairs, only at the end I hit my head instead and got a vitreous tear in my eyeball that took two months to heal. These days I go down stairs not only gripping the railing but leaning against it. I’ve gotten phobic.
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Oh, ouch! I hope you didn’t get too banged up. How are you feeling?
As for my own stupidest accident, I may have to give that some more thought. Your pants related accident did bring to mind a near catastrophe I had on a day when I *wasn’t* wearing pants. (Unlike Sledpress, though, I was wearing something!) Over the summer, I wore a skirt one day, one I’ve had for many years. I hadn’t really noticed that there were some loose threads hanging down…until I got to the top of an escalator. I suddenly felt my skirt being yanked downwards with great force. Happily, the skirt did not have an elastic waist, and happily, I was able to yank the skirt out of the grips of the escalator and break the threads before I was pulled down, too.
(And thanks for the pants link!)
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Living in the UK, that title conjured up a completely different image from that intended!
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Treacherous Trousers?
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Better 😉
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Back in the day of super wide-leg Howick jeans, I used to catch my toes in the hem all the time. The most memorable was when I was bringing home this gigantic ceramic bowl I had made at school. My toe caught, I fell to my knees and the bowl hit the pavement with a loud CLANG! Luckily, I never actually lost my grip on it because the bowl, despite the CLANG! remained intact.
More recently, when we has Sylvester visiting with us and he was chasing Benjamin unmercifully, I had just sat down after chasing Sylvester upstairs for the hundredth time when he appeared again. I jumped up to grab him and my middle toe caught in my jammie pant leg, I flew across the room, landing hard on my right knee, and broke my toe. My knee is still very painful, though the toe is pretty well healed.
Since the week before, I had tripped over the child gate I had in front of the stairs to keep the dog from going upstairs and landed on the same knee in more or less the same way, it will be a while before the knee heals.
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I wonder where that bowl is…. It sat on the end of the radiator cover in the hallway almost 15 years.
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Knees take FOREVER to heal…
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Come to think of it, these new linen trousers have quite wide legs! Also, my new shoes have slippy soles. Not a good combination, especially in the rain.
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