I'm awesome at a limited amount of things. Walking isn't one of those things, and I have already re-learned that a couple times this winter. Brian and I were walking out to the car on our way home when I walked right onto a big slab of ice. I felt that first little slippery feeling and my thoughts went like this; "Shit. It's okay I won't fall. Oh god, don't fall. Oh...yep I'm going down." My hands went up and my ass came down.
Brian - What are you doing? Stop messing around.
Chelsea - I am not messing around. I'm just trying to get to the car!
I got my feet under me but I didn't want to fall down again so I kept my hands on the ground too. It was too slippery to move forward so I just kinda scooted sideways with my butt up in the air....and fell down again.
Brian - What is wrong with you?
Chelsea - I. Don't. Know.
I decided the best way to get to the car would be to crawl there since it was a short twenty feet there. Brian left me and got in the car.
Brian - Where are you from?
Michigan :-(
Being from Michigan does NOT automatically mean you can walk on ice. I am also from Michigan and also not good at walking on ice. However, while in school I took a few years of figure skating lessons. Those lessons have served me very well over all of theses years. Now when I am slipping and sliding on the ice, I can at least do it with some style and grace. Once in a while, I can even put in a short spin. Just try to maintain an upright posture, arms out and don't try to stop the sliding movement - go with it. This does not always work however, which leads me to justification for Back Up Plan 1 : Always maintain a well padded landing zone! Back Up Plan #2: Maintain good medical insurance. Happy skating! LD
ReplyDeleteLD, I was hoping to have a post just for you of me wearing pillows as I go about my day to day activities while outside, but all of our snow and ice has melted :-(
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