Posted by: Pupster | January 9, 2008

Stupid Crap Keeps Happening to Me

What the HELL JUST HAPPENED?Today I fell propelled myself out of my office chair and into a backwards screaming heap on the floor. 

My 3/4 length winter coat was draped over the back of my chair, and when I pushed off with my feet to roll backwards toward my office printer (a signature move I’ve perfected over the last few months) the coat went under the wheels. 

I don’t know the exact physics behind it, but the chair came to a dead stop and the back was pulled down by the coat, my weight and momentum.

hard push x rolling chair + long coat = down goes Pupster

 

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The physics is complex.

But the moment when you are falling - irrevocably committed, but only about half-way to the floor - and you realize you’ve done this to yourself, is a moment of exquisite doofosity, isn’t it?

It’s one of Life’s “Aw, shit!”moments.

DOWN GOES PUPSTER!
DOWN GOES PUPSTER!

I hope you did a stuntman roll and popped to your feet with an “I meant to do that” attitude.

Nah…I cried-out like a cross between Goofy (falling off a cliff) and Meg Ryan faking an orgasm.

Landed flat on my back with my legs in the air…also like Meg Ryan.

GLAR
(g=”grinning” ;)

Harsh.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH……

I mean….I’m sorry, I glad you didn’t hurt yourself.

Am I a bad person because I would have laughed, not because it was you, but because that sounds really flippin funny?

I mean I would have helped you up after I wiped my tears and blew my nose. I’m not that heartless, sheesh.

Nah…it was funny. There was about half a second after impact where I must have looked like a turtle flipped on it’s back. I felt like it.

This post is like your own little Voight-Kampff Test…

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I”M NOT HELPING?

All of you who accused me of being clumsy should, uh.

Ok, nothing I guess.

All of you who accused me of being clumsy should, uh.

Don’t think of it as an accusation. Think of it as a diagnosis.

We’re here to help.

You’re a moron.

Cute dog, is that a Sheltie?

I’ve got a lead on why your chair tipped. Might not be your fault:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qHgvHNZNPGI&feature=bz303

I dunno what kind of dog it is Mr. M., I just did a search for “dog office chair” and that picture looked about right for the post.

I’d like to think “The Force” had something to do with it Skinbad…but I can’t go there. Just physics and my dumb ass.

Ouch! Hope you’re okay.

I think there is really an evil cabal of chairs whose goal is to cause us to fall on our ass or back, or even a hump. Obviously, it had nothing to do with your technique and everything to do with standing orders the chairs have to attack.

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