[QUOTE=DNut;3305914]It was raining hard, and the rain water was flowing through the gutters. I didn't have an umbrella so I ran to the car parked on a lot across the street. My plan was to leap over the flowing gutter water, my body going from the street to the sidewalk in a single bound, just like a gymnast on her balance beam dismount.
Unfortunately, as all great plans do, there was a flaw to my plan; I am not graceful. There was no balletic stride across the pavement, no graceful leap, and certainly no 10.0 scored landing. As I lumbered across the road, I made a valiant effort to hurl my body into the air higher that my normal 3 inch vertical clearance. It was at that moment that my back leg slipped forward, bringing with it the rest of me and my now extended right leg sliding into a sewer drain in what could only be described as a Charlie Chaplin inspired baseball slide into home; in this case, a sewer drain.
Not one of my more graceful moments. Personally, I would have given it an 8. 0. But I need to deduct points for the uncoordinated flailing arms and girlish scream.[/QUOTE]You know, a really cruel person would do something like setting up a double for you save in the knowledge that you couldn't do anything but watch.
