Have You Ever Fallen Down Stairs?

[MatticusMania]

I was walking from the second floor of my office building to the first, through an stairway thats hardly ever used (maybe because it smells like rubber, bad) when I got to thinking it would probably hurt if I would have slipped and fallen, which is probably why theres a rubbery coating over them.

Then I came to the realization that in my home (where Ive been staying for the past 7 months, but now officially live since I pay rent) that I have slipped and fallen down our carpeted steps at least 4 or 5 times in the last 7 months.

So, lets hear some falling down the stairs stories...

[iamlowsound]

I have never fallen down, but I sometimes fall up the stairs.

lowsound

[Din Of Win]

Yeah, falling up stairs sucks. It also always seems to happen when other people are around.

I haven't fallen down stairs, but after seeing Home Alone i hurt my arm pretty bad when it got caught in the rails when i attempted to 'sled' down them.

[Joe Gress]

I have fallen both ways. Both ways suck. Up hurts your knees and shins, but down kills your ass and back.

[Simo98]

Originally Posted by iamlowsound

I have never fallen down, but I sometimes fall up the stairs.

lowsound

Thats the best way to get up them, walking is too hard.


My slinky falls down stairs semi-regularly

[6jase5]

Oh god yes. Carrying-trudging a couch up a flight of stairs (college beater couch, luckily pretty light) I slipped and came back down (concrete stairs) along with the couch on me. I was pinned to a wooden railing and had to use my head and neck to push the couch far enough to free my arm. Major road rash on my back and one leg.

I also saw Joe Walsh trip down about 8 stairs before I show. I was backstage. A little Funk Forty-Nin......uh oh. He laughed.

[iamlowsound]

Originally Posted by Din Of Win

Yeah, falling up stairs sucks. It also always seems to happen when other people are around.

I did it in front of my girlfriend's family on the weekend. They laughed.

lowsound

[Thor]

I was at Musician's Workshop. I let them use my PA gear,
and was helping load out. Had a Mackie 15 PA sub on a cart.

5 steps. I'm uphill. No handicap ramp. No light outside and its dark.
The guy holding the front end of the cart doesn't see
the last step and suddenly pulls the cart. Now I am in a
wrestling match with an 85 lb subwoofer. Which I lose.

It pulls me down and I go ass over teakettle, landing on
the grass. Unfortunately, I scrape my left index knuckle
badly on a concrete septic tank cover and it's bleeding.
The next day the joint is all swollen and I can't move it.
It's just healing up now, this was 6 weeks ago. I was
unable to finger an open C on a guitar until last week.
I was able to play the middle finger on the E string root
pattern well enough on the bass to get by but it was
painful. Arrrgh!

[kcamsdog1387]

Not sure if it counts but when I was around 4 years old, my cousin convinced me that taking my tricycle down a flight of stairs was a good idea. I made it about halfway down before I went head over heels. Not too fun.

[HailCorduroy]

I had a lady friend over one night and we were pretty drunk. After spending some quality time together, I decided I needed something to drink. I head downstairs and about half way down, my foot slipped out from under me and I slid the rest of the way down on my butt and back. The best part was that I was only wearing my birthday suit at the time. That's the last time I ever walked down a set of stairs nekkid.

[Stampy]

Yeah falling up stairs sucks!!!

[hbarcat]

I was once helping a friend move out of a really broken down apartment on the second floor and on one of the trips out with a big heavy box in my arms, the entire stairway collapsed when I stepped on the top step. I teetered on the edge for about 1 second and when I felt that I was about to go over I threw the box away as hard as I could, sacrificing it's contents (A VCR, a small TV and a few dozen VHS tapes) so that I might be spared a trip to the hospital.

[RedBastard]

I had drunk a lot of this horrible harvey wallbanger flavoured vodka in a cask when I was about 16 or 17 and kinda dived feet-first down the stairs at a friend's place and clipped my heel on one of the steps so I landed on the back of my head. I lost 1L of blood and got 14 stitches and coz I already had most of my head shaved at the time I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein till they took the stitches out.

[joegeezer]

35 years ago, when we were 21 years old, a good friend of mine was drunk as a hootowl at college, and fell down a long flight of concrete stairs. He got all bruised up, like really bad. He died 3 years later from cancer, caused by the bruising. Be drunk at home, don't go out, where the terrain can kill you. True story.

[DigMe]

No. Never.

Sincerely,
http://www.addictinggames.com/stairfall.html

[CBgaragebassist]

I fell down some stairs with a trombone. But it was in a hard case, so it took the brunt of it. Still my left shoulder gets wonky occasionally when i lift things over about 15 pounds. Doesn't affect my playing though

[Fontaine]

take a look at my sig, and you tell me?

[kingpin2512]

Fall down no not really. Fall up all the time though.

[hbarcat]

I've always wanted to see someone fall down a flight of stairs while carrying a set of drums - so it would create it's own sound effects.

[kingpin2512]

That would be very interesting.(has to go find drummer now)