Just remembered this...
Few years ago now, working in sales. Went out one evening with my boss to take some customers for a curry and some drinks.

We all got absolutely stocious, as per usual.

This particular night I was staying at my boss' house, a rather lovely place in Docklands.

The bathroom nearest my bedroom was entirely white, tiled floor to ceiling, and with lovely shiny ceramic tiles on the floor too.

Firstly, getting back that night while still very very pissed and trying to brush my teeth, I knocked a metal beaker off of the sink - it bounced around the room, clanging like a bell, for about 10 minutes (it seemed), all the while chased by me, trying in vain to catch it and simultaneously making very loud "Sssssh!" noises apparently.

Secondly, getting up in the morning, with a horrendous hangover, I decided a shower would make me feel better. Well, it did until I got out. The shower was over the bath, so I finished, turned the water off and stepped out over the side of the bath onto the little mat. Trouble is, I'd forgotten that the floor was a good few inches lower than the bottom of the bath, so I lost my balance a bit. Scooting my foot further from the bath to remedy this, I hopped straight off of the mat, onto the (as previously mentioned) shiny ceramic floor tiles, propelling myself into an instant splits-you-didn't-know-you-could-do position.

I was amazed that I could get my legs that far apart: I stopped myself by grabbing the edge of the sink as it got level with my face and heaved myself back up.

Afterwards I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry, or which bit to hold first. My groin was pretty sore as you can imagine, but worse than that was the inside of the leg that had still been in the bath, as I'd managed to bruise it all the way from ankle to knee on the rim of the bath.

Still, my pains and shaking were eased somewhat by my boss and his wife's laughter when I told them... =)



I'm not sure about length, but I swear it reached the floor that day
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 12:33, 2 replies)

Oof!
bloody hell, that made me wince!
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 15:14, closed)

Not as much as it made me wince, I'll wager...

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 15:54, closed)