Real-life slapstick
Fact: When someone walks into a lamp-post it makes a very satisfying and hugely hilarious "Ding!" noise. However, it is not quite so funny when the post is in the middle of town and you are the victim. Tell us about hilarious prat-falls.
Thanks to Bob Todd for the suggestion
( , Thu 21 Jan 2010, 12:07)
Fact: When someone walks into a lamp-post it makes a very satisfying and hugely hilarious "Ding!" noise. However, it is not quite so funny when the post is in the middle of town and you are the victim. Tell us about hilarious prat-falls.
Thanks to Bob Todd for the suggestion
( , Thu 21 Jan 2010, 12:07)
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A good few years ago now my friend and I built a partition wall in the office where we worked.
We'd finished the studwork and doorframe, but hadn't bought the boards to finish it off. As it was only a small office (well, two small offices now), to save space we propped the door in its frame, and moved between offices by climbing through a gap in the studwork.
Until on about the third time through, when I forgot and went to go through the door as normal. Instead of swinging open it started to tip away from me. Trying to brace it I stepped forward... this now meant that both of my feet were jammed against the bottom of the door and I couldn't regain my balance. As one, the door and I fell forwards, slowly at first, but gaining momentum. Just as I realised that this event was going to end with me falling onto the photocopier and smashing it, my friend walked into the other office and saw what was happening. Springing forward, he braced himself against the other side of the door and pushed me back upright. Then took the piss mercilessly for days :)
Length? Only a couple of seconds, but it felt like I was falling forever O_o
( , Sat 23 Jan 2010, 22:34, 3 replies)
We'd finished the studwork and doorframe, but hadn't bought the boards to finish it off. As it was only a small office (well, two small offices now), to save space we propped the door in its frame, and moved between offices by climbing through a gap in the studwork.
Until on about the third time through, when I forgot and went to go through the door as normal. Instead of swinging open it started to tip away from me. Trying to brace it I stepped forward... this now meant that both of my feet were jammed against the bottom of the door and I couldn't regain my balance. As one, the door and I fell forwards, slowly at first, but gaining momentum. Just as I realised that this event was going to end with me falling onto the photocopier and smashing it, my friend walked into the other office and saw what was happening. Springing forward, he braced himself against the other side of the door and pushed me back upright. Then took the piss mercilessly for days :)
Length? Only a couple of seconds, but it felt like I was falling forever O_o
( , Sat 23 Jan 2010, 22:34, 3 replies)
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