What makes some people more accident prone than others?
I only ask after ending up face down on a pathway within the grounds of The Black Country Museum today. It was a normal day, sunny - no rain nor slippy surfaces and I was wearing sensible shoes (Easytone Reebok trainers, actually). We were happily strolling along when suddenly WHAM, ankle is twisted and I hit the deck harder and faster than Mr Bean in a fight against Muhammed Ali. I am now sat here with a poorly ankle, bruised and aching leg and some original Black Country coal stuck in the palm of my hand.
Yesterday I was working the kennels and hutches in our warehouse at work. Often I would end up buried under a pile of hutches as they fell over, or strain my back trying to move a 4 foot wooden viv. On holiday I fell off a horse and was nearly dragged along by the neck as the horse tried to bolt. On another holiday I was in a plane crash before we even left the ground, I have taken the top of my finger off with secateurs, sliced my hand open playing with one of my brother's flick knives (when they were legal), cut another finger open while messing around with washing on a washing line and stood on an electrical plug so hard that it pierced my foot with two of its prongs. I have also been electrocuted twice. Once when trying to get crumpets out of a toaster with a fork, and the other when cleaning out the fish tank. I have flipped cars, spun 180 degrees in roadworks and skidded and spun on diesel on one of the busiest roundabouts on the A14. I have broken both collar bones - one in a piggyback race and one on a skiing holiday - though I wasn't on the slopes, I was in the boot room. I have broken 3 fingers in 1 game of hockey, chipped a tooth in a cinema and crushed 2 toes in a Drama class.
My parents have always been honest with me, told me from a fairly young age that I wasn't a planned baby, and that's sort of nice to know. I feel, however, that being an accident at conception kinda sets you up for life!
