Have you ever slipped on the stairs
and your foot flies out from under you and you end up on your arse? Sometimes, you can be extra unlucky like me and just catch the edge of the step with your arse bone / tail bone / coccyx (what you will). It hurts a lot. But not straight away, it doesn't seem to hurt at all, just a warm tingly feeling at the back of your pelvis. I landed right in front of Mrs SLVA who said "ooh" and other sympathy words and offered to help me up. I declined and said "I'll just lay here for a minute or so first."
This was because the warm tingly feeling was actually quite pleasant. After a minute or so, I got up and went and sat down. It began to throb. I went to bed.
The next day it hurt like a bastard. I think I'd cracked it maybe, but I couldn't bend over in any way shape or form. It took me best part of 10 minutes to get out of bed, and another half hour to get dressed.
To compound matters, I was at a funeral that day. Every step gave a small twinge - not pain, but just a reminder. Sitting down was agony though. Getting up was agony. Every other movement apart from hobbling slowly was painful.

Don't damage your tail-bone. It really hurts.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 21:40, Reply)