Is that a Banana Skin I See Before Me?

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Looking down at the floor a few moments ago, I noticed that my shoelace had become totally caught inside one of the casters of my chair. It took me ages to disentangle it, but it set me thinking - what if I hadn't noticed and had got up to go to the loo, coffee machine whatever?! I had a lucky escape.

What accidents have you *almost* had?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I once fell off a ladder backwards onto a stone floor. If I hadn't been wearing a bowler hat (true!) I could have split my skull open.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I almost ate Bolivia

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pls tell me this was a dress rehearsal for a play, Mark C. I can't think of any other circumstances when bowler hats and ladders might go together.

There was an occasion when I was in the canteen at my student hall of residence. I was carrying a tray laden with food from the servery to my table when I lost my footing. Fortunately, I recovered it just in time and continued on my way, but the reaction of the onlookers was quite amusing; they went "Whooooooah" as I lost my footing, in preparation for a cheer, only to go "Ohhh" in disappointment when I didn't actually fall!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I seem to remember almost killing my mother when trying to throw a stone into the sea once. White faces all round. I don't throw things much these days.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

"...or are you just glad to see me"

― ron (ron), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

"...the stalk toward my hand"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, but it was a halloween party.

Oh, another time i was cycling one-handed down to the glaziers (as you do) with a pane of glass under one arm. For some reason, in the middle of a busy road, I decided to hold the right handlebar with my left hand. I don't know how I stayed upright, or indeed alive, but I did. Maybe I should dedicate my life to the church?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was cycling one-handed down to the glaziers (as you do) with a pane of glass under one arm

And this in itself isn't an accident waiting to happen?

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was kind of my point! Only I then did something even more stupid. No confessions yerself, Richard T?

Oh, and on the stone-throwing tip, a rock I tried to throw into the sea in Dorset went straight up in the air and landed on someone's bonnet. Oops.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

This happens to me ALL the time! Well, except for that "almost" bit.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

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