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I am the epitome of grace

So today, I was at lunch, eating my gordita and talking to my coworker. Well, I decided to lean over and see how a cat's name was spelled, and at the same time my chair decided it had things to attend to in the opposite direction. So I fell right outta my chair with a loud crash, dropped my gordita and broke my plate, and then had to pick ceramic shards out of said gordita because darnit I was hungry!

Now, if this was just in front of my coworker I would just have laughed it off. But no. I was also right in front of a doctor who I'm pretty certain thinks I'm incompetent by now because every time he's near I do something amazingly clutzy and/or stupid. Like last week: I dropped my coworker's giant cup of horchata all over my lap, desk, chair, and the floor, as well as medicine vials. I'm always dropping syringes and running into things, or forgetting stuff, and it's always when he's RIGHT THERE.

I'm always clutzy, but for some reason I seem to be at my worst when he's the doctor on shift that day. Augh! -_-

I also forgot about the sutures in my arm from my biopsy yesterday and picked up a giant anesthetized dog, subsequently nearly dropping said giant anesthetized dog when it hurt like a muthah. Again, in front of that particular doctor.

There is just no way he doesn't see this when he looks at me:



Any embarrassing work stories to tell?

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Re: I am the epitome of grace

  • Wrkn925Wrkn925 member
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    edited December 2011
    When I'm walking at work I somehow just shut down my peripheral vision.  I walk in to door frames multiple times a day.

    It's nothing out of the ordinary and people have stopped paying attention to it.
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  • lunarsongbirdlunarsongbird member
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    Oh Boy- That totally sucks, but it's also kinda hilarious.

    I too run into walls. It's like I have no depth perception. I take corners too close.
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  • MLekathLEENMLekathLEEN member
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    edited December 2011
    "dur de durrr" has been a running joke with fsil and I. We always say that is what their younger dog is thinking. I just sent her that picture and I can hear her laughing from across the hall. Walls and cubicles seem to come out of nowhere. Those cubicles are sneaky little fvckers.
  • peekaboo2011peekaboo2011 member
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    I totally thought I was the only one who ran into walls all the time.

    I also have a tendency to fall both down AND up stairs - actually how i tore my ligaments in my ankle the first time.

    Oh, and this one time in gym class in middle school, I cracked the growth plate of my ankle...by running.  We were doing some sort of relay and I stopped funny and cracked it.  I still enjoy telling the story though - I went home that afternoon and told my parents I had hurt my ankle.  Dad looked at it, said it was fine and wrapped it in an ACE bandage.  Mom grabbed the tylenol and we were off for our family roadtrip to Natural Bridge that weekend.  Well, I kept complaining, they kept feeding me tylenol and re-wrapping it and telling me I was fine.  They made me hike up a mountain, and then dad had to carry me down it.  Mom looked at it afterwards and thought it looked swollen and decided we were going to the hospital when we got back on Monday.  We got to the hospital, they took x-rays and called the orthopedist.  Who cocked her head and looked at the x-rays and said "Well that's weird."  I've never let them live it down.  I was in a cast for 6 weeks after that.
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  • SopChickSopChick member
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    edited December 2011
    I'm a HUGE clutz, BF teases me all the time for it. I constantly walk into things, trip on nothing, drop stuff multiple times....the list goes on.


    That sucks that it's always in front of the same doctor though. :(
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  • leia1979leia1979 member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_am-epitome-of-grace?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:c3082d31-f117-4c1d-971b-ab853b88f038Post:6ec86254-49f0-4b6b-9b20-d21e56ab480b">Re: I am the epitome of grace</a>:
    [QUOTE]Oh Boy- That totally sucks, but it's also kinda hilarious. I too run into walls. It's like I have no depth perception. I take corners too close.
    Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]

    This is me exactly. I think my depth perception is lacking. I'm always tripping over things or stubbing my toes. I even tripped going up the stairs one day. I've fallen down stairs before, too, so I'm always really cautious.

    On Sunday morning, I burned my mouth so badly that it still hurts today!

    Fortunately, my job mostly requires that I sit at my desk where I can't hurt myself.

    Zip, I'm sure it seems worse to you.
  • zipis1zipis1 member
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    I have to be very careful when I go up/down stairs too. It drives my friends and FI nuts cuz I basically will go down it like a toddler (putting both feet on one step before going to the next one).

    You're probably right, Leia. But sometimes I wonder. I've noticed that he's been going to my coworker for help/tech work more often than me lately. He used to do it evenly, but he's gradually going to her more. And he seems to double check my bladder expressions and various other techy tasks but he doesn't check hers. I swear I'm good at my job (the other four doctors I've worked with love me!), just...not at not hurting myself :/

    Edit: It also doesn't help that when I'm embarrassed I, for some ungodly reason, speak in baby talk. So when I fell out of my chair, I sat up, looked him straight in the eyes, and said, "I fall down!"


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  • leia1979leia1979 member
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    Oh no, Zip! I'm sure he'll recognize you're competent (just slightly klutzy) with time.



    P.S. I'm watching Colbert right now, so the headdesk was extra lol-worthy.
  • SKP82SKP82 member
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_am-epitome-of-grace?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:c3082d31-f117-4c1d-971b-ab853b88f038Post:c44c918e-f4d3-47ab-a91a-742ac75d5390">Re: I am the epitome of grace</a>:
    [QUOTE]I have to be very careful when I go up/down stairs too. It drives my friends and FI nuts cuz I basically will go down it like a toddler (putting both feet on one step before going to the next one). You're probably right, Leia. But sometimes I wonder. I've noticed that he's been going to my coworker for help/tech work more often than me lately. He used to do it evenly, but he's gradually going to her more. And he seems to double check my bladder expressions and various other techy tasks but he doesn't check hers. I swear I'm good at my job (the other four doctors I've worked with love me!), just...not at not hurting myself :/<strong> Edit: It also doesn't help that when I'm embarrassed I, for some ungodly reason, speak in baby talk. So when I fell out of my chair, I sat up, looked him straight in the eyes, and said, "I fall down!"
    </strong>Posted by zipis1[/QUOTE]

    OMG.  That is too hilarious. 
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  • edited December 2011
    Hah. Boy do I know the feeling.  There is a rule in our office, because of me, about not rolling in your office chairs.  I was doing this a few years back and somehow completely flipped over and shattered two of my knuckles.. Had to go to "hand therapy" for like 6 weeks.  Talk about feeling like an idiot!
  • Wrkn925Wrkn925 member
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    Peek, I fell in my backyard when I was like 12, and heard a pop.

    Mom was convinced I'd popped my shoulder out of place and wanted to try to pop it back in.  Everytime she got near me, I screamed and told her I wanted to go to the ER.

    Turns out I had snapped my collar bone in half. 
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  • lunarsongbirdlunarsongbird member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_am-epitome-of-grace?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:c3082d31-f117-4c1d-971b-ab853b88f038Post:9c3f999a-2f03-4877-8f56-6b482f366b49">Re: I am the epitome of grace</a>:
    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: I am the epitome of grace : OMG.  That is too hilarious. 
    Posted by SKP82[/QUOTE]

    Haha! I agree- that's hilarious. I could just imagine you saying, "I fall down"
    Hehe..I giggled out loud at work, which is okay- because the entire office is GONE at a training. I'm here alone. :(
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