Whoops, there she goes!

[piplover]

Yesterday, when I was getting out of the troop carrier, I caught my foot on the lip between the tailgait and the floor the carrier. I think I can honestly say that it was one of my more spectacular nose-dives.
Now, I'm the kind of person who trips on air on a fairly regular basis, so I didn't think anything of it. I just brushed myself off, laughed at the image I must have made, and went about business as usual.
After we got back from the range today, though, I mentioned that my knee was hurting, and in all honesty I couldn't think why, because it wasn't the normal arthritis pain. My sgt looked at me kind or worried and asked, "Because of the fall yesterday? It looked like it really hurt."
And I'm thinking, Oh, yeah, the fall!
Doh!
Now my knee, on closer inspection, has turned an intersting shade of brown and blue. Really, I don't know how I've managed to survive this long without a broken bone. My foot doesn't really count, as it was only cracked. :)
Anyway, I think I just lost every cool point I ever accumulated after that, lol! Not like I had many to begin with, though. As I said, I frequenly trip over anything and everything, including thin air.

Comments

[g-i-dennis.livejournal.com]

Good LORD, woman! Wow. We had a guy who may have been more accident prone than you, however. Have you ever been out on a flight line? They have these little holes that they use to tie down planes in storms. Our boy Shoun broke his foot in one WALKING to the bird. He's the only person I know to ever break a bone on a jump without actually jumping.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

I bet I could do it. Just send in me in any direction and I'll find something to trip over, fall into, walk into, or stumble on. I walked into a tree at Basic during our night manouvers. My Drill yelled at me for falling behind, and I didn't have the heart to tell him to tell that to the tree, lol!