the taco the town

so i fell. and i don't just mean i tripped, caught myself, and moved on. i mean, i fell. in the cafeteria. at noon. lots and lots and LOTS of people around. let me replay this moment for you.

i'm in work clothes, just like any other wednesday. have one of my most comfy heels on, black pointy shoes. danny boy was supposed to eat lunch with me, and i couldn't find him and decided he was outside somewhere waiting for me out there. as i told the other people that i was going to go look for him, the man next to me pushed his chair out so he could get up. and that's when my foot and the leg of his chair wanted to be in the same place at the same time. my heel got caught on the leg of the chair and there i went. i could see out of the corner of my eye my arm making a huge windmill like motion, and i could see out of the corner of the other eye my other arm following suit. and i went down, i imagine much like how goliath went down from. or at least, that's how it felt. arms flailing and everything! thank goodness i have some sort sense of agility, and i caught myself, with very little contact with the floor. i think only a little tiny bit of my knee hit the floor (and i have a tiny bruise there to prove it). the whole, and i mean the whole cafeteria uttered one collective surprised gasp, and ALL heads turned towards me. i just looked around like a fool and jumped back up. some people were laughing, some people were asking if i was ok with a big fat grin on their faces, and the man whose chair my foot met close up looked appalled. yes, yes it was your chair i tripped on. at least i actually tripped on something (i've been known to trip on air) this time. i'm brown, and right now i'm pretty tan from the summer. but i still somehow managed to turn beet red. i could FEEL the blood in my face, pounding with every beat of my completely embarrassed heart. i looked around the floor in case God felt bad for me and opened up a hole i could crawl into. no such luck. i just walked straight to the door until i found someone i could talk to (who of course made fun of me - who was actually JDoe. Karma, i'm telling you. all this just for telling a few stories?!) until people stopped staring at me. which they didn't for a good 3 minutes. always a fun day when you're watching a klutz like me!