I'm free- AAAAAH!

[vzg]

Okay, so when you fall in the kitchen while your mom is making dinner? That's hilarious.

When you fall in front of your PE class behind the school? That's "HUR HUR I'm a doofus."

When you fall on the sidewalk of New York City near a bunch of crowded places in the middle of the day? That's embarassing.

Comments

[citizenjess]

AGREED. I don't mind klutzing around in front of family and friends, but I once ate shit right in the middle of the crowded school store at my university. I kind of wanted to crawl into a hole after that.

[vzg]

I felt a little better afterwards, because there was this woman there who said, "It wasn't just you - there's a big chunk of sidewalk missing there. I've done it before - and in long pants. That was embarassing." But then there had also been this couple who had rushed up and were leaning over me and I was all, "I SWEAR TO GOD I'M FINE. REALLY. I'M JUST EMBARASSED AND HOPING THAT MIRROR DIDN'T BREAK OR ANYTHING, 'CAUSE IT'S THE ONLY ONE I HAVE SO PLEASE JUST GO AWAY AND END MY MISERY."

Yeah.

[citizenjess]

Once in math class, I sat down in one of those desks that are made for somebody about the size of my dachshund, and leaned back just enough that I not only toppled my own desk, but also the two in back of me. It hurt like crazy - there was no carpeting - but I was so humiliated that I just busted up laughing. Somebody asked if I had a concussion. BEST INTRO TO CLASS EVER

[vzg]

Awww. I don't think I ever toppled over in a chair in class, but I know I've toppled chairs and desks... sometimes both at once. >.> And then the class did that "let's clap, just to emphasize the embarassment!" thing. (And, hey, the guy I liked was among them! XP)

[thebigfatman]

When you're one of the folks in the crowd and you giggle at someone that has such misfortune as to fall in front of everybody, that's schadenfruede.

I love the Germans, that they have such a word in their language. :)

[vzg]

Straight-A students getting Bs!
Exes getting STDs!
Waking doormen from their naps!
Watching tourists reading maps!
Football players getting tackled!
CEOs getting shackled!
Watching actors never reach the ending of their Oscar speech!

I've been two of those. :O

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. :D)

[thebigfatman]

You quote something both amusing and unfamiliar to me! Do enlighten?

[vzg]

It's Schadenfruede from Avenue Q. :D BEST MUSICAL EVER.

[timemonkey]

Gravity, my mortal enemy.

[fishness]

If it makes you feel better, yesterday I fell up the stairs in front of a big Broadway casting director. (I fell up them twice more and down once when she wasn't around, too...)

[vzg]

Ouch. x_x