When do you stop falling over and start having falls?

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Is there a specific age or degree of illness or infirmity when people will start saying - of a person who has upended themselves that they have had a fall rather than fallen over. Is one more personal - do falls happen to you but you actively (due to stupidity, drunkeness or inability to remember how many stairs their were) fall over?

― Pete, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think when you are older falling over becomes more of an event, because as a result of your being frailer a fall is more inclined to break you. So talking about A Fall gives the event the ominous air it requires.

― DV, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

with my wise answer I have KILLED this thread!

― DV, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

with one fell swoop

― lawrence kansas, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

About my age.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nine years pass...

I tripped and fell all the way to the floor at a big faculty meeting today, and then in a rush to help me a coworker fell out of his chair and onto the floor. It was pretty funny, but no one knew how to react.

Both the other guy and I just kinda dropped it. We had just received new desks/furniture and this was not the best way to introduce it to the group :-/

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link

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