This video on treadmill accidents seemed appropriate to post, given my own somewhat undignified fall earlier this evening.<\/p>\n
No – it wasn’t a treadmill accident… fortunately. I just stumbled over something I didn’t see while I was out in the backyard.\u00a0My daughter called me out to collar the dog, who was barking his fool head off at our next-door neighbors’ puppy. I\u00a0walked outside\u00a0still wearing my reading glasses – rather than take them off, I simply slid them down my nose a ways so I could\u00a0look over them.<\/p>\n
Big mistake.<\/p>\n
I could see just fine over the specs, but – because the glasses blurred the lower half of my visual field –\u00a0I managed to trip over an old stack of flattened boxes while walking towards the fence. No real damage was done… but it was a poignant reminder that falls frequently occur in familiar settings. I wasn’t paying attention and – to be\u00a0blunt\u00a0– set myself up for it by doing something completely stupid.<\/p>\n
On that note: here’s the vid<\/a>:<\/p>\n