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Fate catches up with me
Feb. 10th, 2009 11:36 pmThis weekend just gone, I was booked in to play a LRP event - specifically, Skal - which I had to miss because of lack of money. As most people who know me know, I usually manage to do something spectacularly clumsy (i.e. fall over, walk into a tree, break a bow and get concussion, etc.) during a LRP event.
In other words, I dodged an appointment with Fate. Fate resented this, and caught up with me on Monday.
After shooting in the cold and drizzly afternoon, I came back indoors, changed my clothes and made a lovely fresh cafetiere of coffee. Trotting upstairs with the cafetiere and cup in one hand and a slice of bread with jam in the other. I walked into the spare room towards the computer desk, stepped on a pile of plastic folders I thought was at least two feet further to the right, and went down like a sack of the proverbial.
By sheer chance I fell in exactly the same way that one might perform a sideways breakfall. This means that because there was nothing hard or sharp for me to fall on, I was simply rather stunned. And winded. Also by some small miracle, the bread landed jam-side up.
The cafetiere, however, flew several feet through the air to land under the computer desk, where it liberally sprayed its contents over the carpet, wall and computer power sockets. Luckily the cafetiere was made of metal, so I wasn't picking glass out of the carpet for hours. Also, I managed to get the computer turned off before anything short circuited.
And just think - they let me play with sharp pointy sticks. Ha ha ha ha ha.
In other words, I dodged an appointment with Fate. Fate resented this, and caught up with me on Monday.
After shooting in the cold and drizzly afternoon, I came back indoors, changed my clothes and made a lovely fresh cafetiere of coffee. Trotting upstairs with the cafetiere and cup in one hand and a slice of bread with jam in the other. I walked into the spare room towards the computer desk, stepped on a pile of plastic folders I thought was at least two feet further to the right, and went down like a sack of the proverbial.
By sheer chance I fell in exactly the same way that one might perform a sideways breakfall. This means that because there was nothing hard or sharp for me to fall on, I was simply rather stunned. And winded. Also by some small miracle, the bread landed jam-side up.
The cafetiere, however, flew several feet through the air to land under the computer desk, where it liberally sprayed its contents over the carpet, wall and computer power sockets. Luckily the cafetiere was made of metal, so I wasn't picking glass out of the carpet for hours. Also, I managed to get the computer turned off before anything short circuited.
And just think - they let me play with sharp pointy sticks. Ha ha ha ha ha.
