That awkward moment when you are texting and not watching where you are going….and run into a pole in Walmart. To answer all of your questions at once, yes, this has happened to me. I didn’t just witness some idiot do it. I was the idiot.
But I am the idiot quite often, if I’m being completely honest. It’s rather a specialty of mine…I should put it on my resume. I am the reason they have the “no texting and driving” laws. Because I can’t even walk and text. I obviously need both eyes on where I am going and two hands clasped behind my back being absolutely still.
I don’t even remember if the conversation was thrilling or intellectual, probably not. All the same, I still walked right into that pole. And I had a bruise to prove it. I had a lot of fun making up tales of how I got that remarkable and colorful bruise on my forehead:
“I was slaying a dragon, and he didn’t much like it.”
“Oh, I just got into a bar fight…with five big hulking dudes. It was awesome! You should see those other guys, they got it way worse. Did I mention Bruce Willis was there?”
“I was just out playing tennis with Serena Williams and I swear, that ball came outta nowhere!”
But the real story, the Walmart version of the accident, is the one people tended to believe. I can’t imagine why. But I say, if you’re going to be a klutz, you might as well stand proud! Go ahead and trip over that flat ground…. claim it, own it. It’s just about all you got. And remember, being an awkward klutz takes some real talent.
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