But I get up again

[drdoug]

I took a tumble this afternoon. I had picked up the kids from school, and we took a detour to the nearby play park. **TODO was off playing on the slide, and I was talking to **FIXME about the new term’s topic. (The Aztecs. Apparently he is yet again one of the designated class experts on the topic, and is routinely called on to pronounce ‘

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[andrewducker]

Shoulda caught it on video :-)

Glad you're ok!

[drdoug]

Hah. Yes - I have a secret hope one of the other parents caught it on a smartphone and that I am even now becoming a viral video star. Don't think so, though.

[steer]

You rock Doug. I've known it a long time. I knew it since you organised our epic bar crawls as teenagers. I knew it since you piloted that robot to triumph in our room escape game. But still, it is good you can still perform epic action sequences.

[drdoug]

Thanks.

I have been lucky enough to be in some great teams. All this recent worry about artificial intelligence taking over the world doesn't bother me: I remember our "Rah! Rah! The human race!" triumph, with Les, over that chess computer. So long as people remember to program in a 'take back move' button, we're fine.

[mistdog]

You never know when just falling over is going to change your life. I fell over last August - just slipped and sat down kind of hard. Nothing was broken (not even the phone in my back pocket) and I thought I was just bruised but it turns out I've damaged a hip; MRI coming up to try and determine how. A few years ago I probably wouldn't have lost my balance on the slippery rock in the first place.

So you're right to be very, very wary of falling on a concrete path.

[drdoug]

Yowch, that sounds nasty. Good luck with the MRI.

[vinaigrettegirl]

If you took a step backwards and tripped and also fell forwards that in itself is quite nifty. I can see how that could happen. But following a half-gainer with a forward roll to standing position definitely calls for a further 180 degree turn and a set of five manoeuvres from corner to corner, to the music, so no wonder they didn't applaud. You didn't complete the routine.

Seriously, well done. I'm too old to tumble well but I'd have applauded.

Your child's teacher sounds very sensible.

[drdoug]

Ta.

following a half-gainer with a forward roll to standing position

Heh - it was good but not that good! I was twisting before I tripped, and had more or less rotated by the time I was seeing the ground loom up at me.

[bethanthepurple]

Fancy! I usually try to throw myself to the side when I fall, so I land on a buttock.

Today one of my angry children was getting desperate for attention and about to blow. So I went through his maths paper with him. Less smart than your teacher, but it meant we all got to the end of the day without shouting or hitting things.

[drdoug]

I usually try to throw myself to the side when I fall, so I land on a buttock.

That seems a much more sustainable solution that my gymnastics. Although once osteoporosis has set in seriously that might risk a hip or pelvic fracture, which'd be no fun. Though I doubt my alternative would be remotely feasible by then.

Less smart than your teacher,

I dunno - obviously, I wasn't there, but spotting the kettle boiling before it did and defusing it successfully sounds pretty good stuff to me. **FIXME is not a major challenge to manage in a classroom if you're remotely competent - if he gets so disruptive you shout at him, he'll collapse, possibly cry, and won't say a word for a week. (Poor lad had a miserable year with a vent-y quick-tempered teacher.)

[bethanthepurple]

Build up your bum padding. I keep landing on mine every winter, and as long as I avoid my coccyx I'm fine.

FIXME sounds like L at school. I think he's forgiven me after I snapped at him for interrupting and talking over a girl last term. Just about. (L wasn't the one on the boil. That was H. He is one for LOUDLY singing over the teacher in class.)