JCC Unhappy Accidents

Tell us an accident you've had that was unhappy for you, but will give great joy to the JC at large.

 

My life.

 

I'm grateful I was not hurt badly, but in trying to catch a waiting train during rush hour, I jumped the last 3 steps to the platform and wiped out.

Everyone, including the train conductor, was laughing. One commuter came up to me almost crying with laughter, but he leaned in and said "Are you okay?"

I looked at him, got up and said "Yeah, if you think that's good wait until you see what I do for an encore!" and hobbled into the still waiting train. I heard a round of applause as the doors closed.

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but my favorite: was tripping and wiping out in front of my university's Public Safety office.

I am so glad I do not drink or do drugs because I'd be a constant source of hilarity...

 

a kid pulled my pants down at school once, exposing my underpants to many of my fellow classmates, who then proceeded to laugh. can you believe it

 

I wanted to see if you could really do that trick where you step on the prongs of a rake and the pole hits you in the face. It was a very minor concussion.

 

I was at the Chicago lakefront fourth of July fireworks walking with my young son on my shoulders when I stepped on a discarded hotdog. It turns out that stepping on a hotdog on smooth concrete produces the same physics as stepping on a cartoon banana peel. I went into a slide that included desperate contortions to keep myself from dropping the boy, which ended in a soft safe landing and applause from maybe 4 or 5 dozen people sitting on the grass waiting for the fireworks to start.

 

I was riding my bike to school in the 8th grade. While crossing the property of an elementary school along the way...I still have no idea what I hit..I went over the handlebars. I got up, felt vast pain in my head and after walking a few steps felt something in my shoulder. I looked down and saw blood dripping. Apaprently I went over the handlebars and my face skidded on the cement and my bike went over me and hit me in the back of the head, it was in front of me when I got up. This kid walked over and asked, "You ok, dude?" I do not recall my answer. A lady in a car saw my accident and told me she would rive me home. She did. I walked in the door and my mother freaked and aksed what happened. I said, "Car." "OMG! You were hit bya car?!" "No, a car brought me here." The kid was nice enough to walk my bike home.

I still have a little scar on the back of my head.

 

I'm really tall. I have to duck through the vast majority of doorways. I hit my head on things more often than I'd care to admit.

You're welcome, world/concussion specialists.

 

I fell down the stairs from my school's auditorium stage during my last choir concert in high school. So yeah, that's the last image people have of me in chior, slipping down three measely steps.

 

How tall?

 

Tall enough to hit my head on most doorframes.

 

i have deduced that you are eleven feet tall. now i'm going to use your top secret height information to steal your identity.

 

I've already said everything I need to say on this subject.

 

Yeah, but I was hoping for real stories.

 

ive done that once. i was "playing" with it while arguing with this girl that i didn't like. was kinda awkward. kinda like when you scream at someone and then say something wrong but you can't correct yourself or laugh cus you're supposed to be angry.

 

The other day at a birthday party one of my friends regaled the crowd with a tale of Debo 's astounding height. That's not an unhappy accident, it's just related to the height competition I see breaking out.

 

I tried to sneak out of a class during a movie and tried really hard not to distract anyone. Using my EPIC ninja skills I managed to trip on the TV's cord, falling on my face and unplugging the TV.

 

I once sat down in a bus, forgetting I had some Swishers in my back pocket... they were unsalvegable.

 

Lincoln was tall
Hitler was small
Dani is a weird troll, y'all

 

Ghandi was small. Rasputin was tall.