Momma's Falls

I feel like I need to write this because Amanda and Caryn always seem to get such a kick out of my lack of gracefulness. It all started about 5 years ago when I slipped on a tater tot at Costco.  Where the tater tot came from, I don’t know.  But it WAS a tater tot.  Amanda and Caryn were with me and laughed so hard when I fell that they almost wet their pants.  I went a couple of years without any major mishaps. Then the first day in Bangkok when I decided to try out my new bike, I was riding next to Amanda and Ryan and was approaching a small incline. I didn’t judge the incline well and pretty much just fell off my bike, right as a taxi was going by.  It just so happened that in the taxi were Troy, our new friend, and Anthony, my friend from Kent.   Amanda said that it was the most graceful fall she had ever seen from me.  My latest “falling” incident occurred as we were walking down a path towards the river at Sai Yok.  I managed to slip and fall on the mossy path down to the river.  According to David, it was a graceful fall worth a total score of 9.6.  I did get a squeal out of the woman behind me and then some giggling from the entire group because the Thai people always laugh WITH you so you don’t lose face. So I guess I can be happy that at least in my falling incidents, I am becoming more graceful.