h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is copy-pasted from my LJ @ http://wibble42.livejournal.com

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I shall slip by unnoticed... like an unnoticable slippy thing (Mirrormask).

Fat chance of that.

Coming back from town this evening (realized I was out of all food BUT milk and meat), I ended up making a laughing stock of myself on the bus.

I was perched sort of on one of the front seats, by the open area near the stairwell and the area for baby strollers/wheelchairs/giant suitcases. I knew I was precarious, but I was more worried about my groceries tipping over than I was about myself getting off balance. After all, I bought a bottle of Black Sheep for celebrating being done with essays (pre-emptive, yeah, whatever), and didn't want it splattered all over the bus floor.

Amazingly, we get through the roundabout on the south side of town quite quickly - there are no lights there and it's always super crowded. We're speeding along at a decent, legal tick, stopping and starting as we come to the double roundabouts by Unthank Road. We get up to the light by Chapelfield's multi-storey, and all the sudden, the bus stops - but I don't.

I sort of hop forward on one foot (don't know why), dragging half my groceries with me (the bags were in my hands to keep them from falling over), and smack into the banister of the stairwell to the upper level. I eventually came to a stop because of the nice lady in the wheelchair seat who grabbed hold of my coat to stop my forward motion.

Yeah. I'm awesome. You know y'all want to fall out of your seat on a bus.

The weird thing is that I don't think the bus stopped all that suddenly. I was just perched precariously enough and distracted enough that the stopping, even though it wasn't that sharp, took me completely by surprise and I went flyin'.

So. That is my awesomeness for the day.

Seeing as I can't do soemthing as simple as sit on a bus, I'm going to do something easy, like write another 4000 words on my madness/war essay. Yes. Yes I am.

You, in the back! I see your smirk!

Um. I almost fell out of my seat at my computer. Does that count?

it'll soon be forgotten by everyone else on the bus.

Actually buses these days have CCTV on them...

they may sell it to you've been framed on TV..

I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks so much.

... or at the very least, on the INTERNET!

I'd have to say that the most embarrassing klutzy thing I ever did was in an art class. We were doing life drawings, with a nude model. Somebody had asked to borrow my seat, and I said okay, since I was standing at the easel. I guess I was so engrossed in my drawing that I forgot, because I went to sit down, and slammed hard into the concrete floor, right on my butt! The model jumped up to help, but I told him to stay put, I was alright. I didn't need him running over when I was sitting on the floor ... if you know what I mean ...