Which is more embarassing: accidentally walking into a wall or a lamppost, or accidentally hitting your head into the table corner while trying to pick up something?

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Surely I'm not the only one to whom these things happen constantly?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

As I'm an IT dude i hit my head on the underside of tables quite a bit, but I don't think I've ever walked into a wall or lamppost and I thought it only happened to members of the Carry-on team.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I just walked into a wall ten minutes ago, that's why I started this thread.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I careered full-on into a lamp-post in Ealing a couple of months ago - it probably looked doubly comical, as I was holding an open can of beer at the time, and the can got almost completely squashed between me and the lamp-post, sending a fountain of Stella shooting into the sky and subsequently all over me...sadly it was 11.45pm and there was nobody around :-(

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I have walked into a lamppost while distracted in Colchester. I'm still surprised there was anything in Colchester sufficiently interesting to distract me.

The table thing happens all the time, I also tend to miscalculate widths of doorways and scrape/hit my knees/knuckles/hips. I don't know what's most embarrassing though. I am kind of inured to it by now.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha, brilliant.

(x-post to Gareth)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

The one that has been witnessed by someone else = more embarrassing.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Often. My stupidest moment: I went to a restaurant a few years ago where they served these fantastic potatoes cooked in a long-handled iron skillet that was chucked in the oven for however long. The waitress put the skillet on our table, saying 'Careful, it's hot!'. I noted her warning, then saw my napkin had slipped off my lap. So I bent down to pick it up – and touched my the bit of skin just above my eyelid, but below my eyebrow, right on to the curved corner of the skillet handle. I had a big red burn then a big red scab there for about three weeks.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

This happens to me too so often that I'm kinda used to it now. I think there are differences between people in "spatial perception", i.e. their ability to calculate space and move in it - that's why some people never walk into a wall.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

but we all slip arse over tit on the ice right?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've walked into a lamppost since I was a teenager, but I bump my head on things continuously because I'm 6'4". It's practically a daily occurrence.

I was out on the piss with a friend from uni a while ago and he ran into a lamppost and fell back on his arse, he was carrying a bottle of Smirnoff Ice or something which smashed, I wasn't looking in his direction at the time and thought someone had bottled him for a second! That night continues to be a source of amusement.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I went ice skating on Staurday and didn't fall over once! *proud*

I do both these things often too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Walking into a wall is quite embarassing because nobod thinks it happens in real life, like slipping on a banana skin. Hitting your head on a table edge hurts more than almost anything, including having a limb severed.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, the thought of it also reminds me horribly of... [total mental block over title of David Lynch film but you probably know the one I mean].

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Lost Highway, that's it.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Both are awesome as long as you have a massive involuntary rebound/bounce from it.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen someone walk into a wall.

― Dan (MY Life Seems So... Empty Now) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I've seen someone walk into a door... that was open. That is, he didn't walk straight through the doorway, but instead turned right and hit the door. Inebriation had something to with it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

The table thing happens more often, and, in terms of amusing effects, frequently only causes a facial expression of pain/annoyance.

WHEREAS

As noted above, walking into something inadvertantly can cause huge amusement. I wish I had seen that fountain of Stella, Charlie.

So, walking into something has the possibility of being FAR more embarassing.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

A certain Stormtrooper may possibly agree with you.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

???

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

i was actually genuinely quite gutted that my pain, and subsequent bruising/soaking, weren't balanced by the schadenfreude of a handful of amused onlookers. must try harder to make fool of self in busy thoroughfare in daytime in future...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm forever smacking my arms/shoulders/hands on doorways and partitions and whatnot because I seem bad at judging distance, I think it must be some spatial perception thing. I ran full-tilt into a washing line pole once as a kid (it was green, so was the grass/trees, I guess I just didn't quite see it). I ran into it so hard it sent me flying backwards and knocked me out. That must have looked hilarious =)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I opened my car door and slammed the corner into my browbone this afternoon. More painful than embarrassing, but plenty of both.

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

I have a scar right above my right eyebrow from when I walked into something sharp when I was 2

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

Klutz.

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

I've done this with a bed post and a hair tie, but I had to close my eye partially while reaching down because my contact lens was bothering me and then I bumped my nose and there was even a negligible scab for a day or two.

― youn, Saturday, 12 April 2008 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

Today I poked myself in the eye with a stick, just as my mother had warned me against. It bled, may scar, and looks stupid what with the band-aid and all.

― quincie, Sunday, 13 April 2008 00:34 (seventeen years ago)

Threads very much in character?

― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 13 April 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

A few months back, while coming back from a party at like 4am, i was really tired. And i had around half an hour of walking before arriving home. I had what then seemed a brilliant idea and decided to sleep while walking. I closed my eyes while on my way to my house, and qui te inevitably ran into a concrete post. Fell back on my ass and probably stayed lying on the ground for 30sec. I had a beautiful vertical scar that started above my eye and ended on my cheek for a week or so.

― Jibe, Sunday, 13 April 2008 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

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