The Thanksgiving Fall

The Thanksgiving Fall

Every year the Saturday after Thanksgiving, my family and I decorate our house with Christmas lights. Last year, I was walking across what my family and I refer to as, “The Hill” and my foot caught.

There’s that moment when you trip, the slow motion moment, where you know what is happening. You are about to fall. Your brain is not going fast enough to know what to do and your body tenses trying to brace itself for what is coming, possible pain. Possible break. Definite humiliation.

My hands were caught in my jacket pockets. My knee hit first, then my shoulder followed by a whip of my head to the ground.

But the fall wasn’t the end. I couldn’t tell what was happening. I just felt this pain. All over. It kept moving. Then I knew. I was rolling. Rolling down the hill. When I stopped my husband and kids came running over, laughing…

As it turns out my husband had left an extension cord lying in the grass where no one could see it. That night I went online to First Place Supply and ordered an EZ-Coil® Power Cord Reel. Not ever bruising the entire side of my body, scraping my face rolling down a hill, and experiencing the humiliation of my family laughing at me was worth the $456.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 14th, 2011 at 3:31 pm 

24th Nov 2014 Sarah

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