Tumbling Down XD

This is a story about Lucky.

Actually no, it's a story about dumb, clumsy, and stupid. Me. XD

It's been an ugly habit of mine to cram my daily morning rituals before going to work. Which gives me precious little time for actual travel.

One fateful Wednesday, some weeks ago, I did a triple flip somersault with 1 1/2 twist on the stairs leading from the Cubao MRT boarding floor to the turnstiles.

Which what should've happened if I was a 15 year old gymnast gunning for Olympic gold. XD

But it just so happened that I'm a 28-year old engineer gunning for a broken hip and bruised ribs. XDXDXD Well to uhm, elaborate.. I only have several minutes before the golden time of 8:15 AM and wearing relatively new shoes and lightheaded from the nice nap while riding the train

*cue music: Komm Susser Todd*

I wasn't one of the first people alighting the train and I "tried" to pass the people who were in front of me on the stairwell. There I was, weaving, shaking, baking, and then.. *slip*

Well, I guess you could say I looked like I rode a street luge on a downslope street. Only there wasn't any luge nor a downslope. Only the cold, hard, unforgiving concrete stairs. And human instinct accompanying me, I grabbed a poor lady for uhm, support to save me from my horrible Olympic performance. The poor lady grabbed onto the stair railing when she felt a flailing hand groping for her arm (or handbag).What I got was a wild shriek and no support from the lady and I swooshed past the lady into the loving arms of the stair landing. XD Oh boy, The lady must've thought I was a pickpocket or sumthin'.

When the stunt was mercifully over, I picked myself up (the entire fucking thing felt decades for it to be over) and hollered an apology to the poor lady. I then made a beeline to the turnstile and briskwalked my bruised body (and ego) to the office. The time: 8:25AM - An Olympic Record! XD

For a week after my groundbreaking performance; my legs and hips hurt like gehenna, hell, the abyss, and pandemonium combined.

Moral lesson of the story: Don't wear sunglasses going down a dark stairwell. XD