Uncoordinated

Today was one of those days where you get out of bed, everything seems to go wrong, and you just want to crawl back into bed and hit the reset button and start over. Rather than bore you with the details of my entire day, let me just share with you a 1 hour block. The saddest part is that all the problems are of my own making... anyway, here goes.

So I'm walking to a philosophy class. It's a class on the history of philosophy. I'm basically just taking it for giggles and all that. Anyway, I'm sorta rushing cause I'm a little bit late cause I had to meet someone to return a book. So as I'm rushing down the stairs I look up and see a girl is holding the door for me. I think to myself "wow, that's nice of her" and I smile at her and follow her through the door.

Now all would have been fine...if there wasn't a second set of doors. So, the girl repeats her kindness and holds the second set of doors open for me as she goes through...the only problem is she holds the door about half open. Since I'm sorta rushing I just yank on the door to get it open...only problem is she hasn't removed her hand from the handle, and I guess she was at an angle where she couldn't remove her hand easily, cause when I pulled she was jerked by her arm like a fish on a hook--her whole body just flew as it tried to keep up with her traitorous arm heading in the other direction. She flew right into me, her head smashed into my chest and she almost fell over. I was barely able to steady her/catch her before she fell to the ground.

I can't begin to imagine what was going on in her head. She looked at me with wide eyes and accepted my apology with an awkward smile and high tailed it out of there. My usually coordinated self just sat there in shock at what had just happened. It seemed like the laws of physics were held in abeyance so that that catastrophe could be possible...it just shouldn't have happened as it did.

First, she shouldn't have flown so easily. I mean, she just flew like she had no weight at all. And second (although this isn't a complaint against physics) why did she go head first? It seems more natural to lead with your shoulder (it's connected to the arm after all). I just don't know...so strange. This was one of those moments in life that would seem more at home in a book or a movie script than in real life. As I walked away I even thought about a good title for the book containing this little misadventure. I eventually chose "How to Win Friends and Injure People." Anyway, after I apologized a few more times I headed to class.

We ended up having a lecture on Plato's Apology. Now, since I've read that at least 6 times I figured I didn't need to pay too much attention...so I fell asleep. The problem was I fell asleep with my right leg resting over my left. During the 30 minutes I was asleep my leg also fell completely asleep. When the class was over I quickly jumped out of my seat only to find that I had no right leg...I was completely numb below the calf. Because I had packed up all my stuff before my nap, my full backpack threw me even further off balance and I nearly faceplanted into the next row of desks. I barely caught myself in time...but I still fell to my right knee and made a noise loud enough to draw the class's attention.

Well, enough about "Motor Skill Monday." I hope everyone else has a better day.