Have you had an adventure or misadventure with something slippery?

I sprained my ankle when I was in high school trying to teach my little brother and sister how to towel surf. You know the game, where you spread out a really old bath towel on really old carpet and then run and jump on it. Alas, it was really slippery for a moment, and then not as slippery.

I threw an ice snowball at a friend and cut his chin. He needed stitches.

I fell on the ice a few days ago.

This thread could get dirty…too bad I have to go do some work.

I once decided to try and make a really special evening for my girlfriend right after high school. So I got a hotel room, and I got some wine (well, okay it wasn’t wine it was Champ-ale or something not so great), and I picked up some massage oil (well, it wasn’t actually massage oil, or even baby oil, i got straight up cooking oil cause I couldn’t find what i was looking for somehow), and I got her flowers (those were fine).

Anyway, we had a great time, but we definitely took a few showers that night!

You mean like the time I slipped in goose shit on my way to class? That was a fowl experience indeed.

Two summers ago, our family was in our garage sitting around talking. I was holding a stemmed glass of margaritas. The glass was one of two that I’d gotten from one of our favorite restaurants down in Texas. The glass was sweating & it slipped out of my hand onto the concrete floor, shattering into 100 pieces. Besides being sick that I’d broke the glass, I had that sticky mess to clean up. The one last glass I have, I handle it veeeery carefully. It’s NOT going in the garage!

@Darwin Oh, nooooo! LOL

I tried out my son’s slip n slide and had a very hard landing. All of their friends went “ooohhh”. Let’s just say that I’ll be staying away from the next one that I encounter.

I understand that there’s a distinct difference in the skeleton of a child (vs. adults) which make children OK for those things but NOT adults.

I wish someone would have told me that beforehand! ;)

…. the damn soap needed to be on a rope. that’s all I’m saying.

my son once grabbed a bar of soap off the sink when i wasn’t looking and proceeded to play with i, get it all over his hands and then started rubbing his eyes… and then rubbing his eyes more to stop them from stinging… you can only imagine my horror and distress… soap is now kept well out of reach…poor little lamb was so upset :-(

I have just gotten through eight years of enduring the slipperyest political administration I can remember.

@Kiev749 I hope it didn’t land in the cat box like that commercial showed

I lost control of a greasy ketchup (catsup?) bottle once at a hamburger joint. The result was – explosive and colorful.

When I was 12 I was playing football and I took off for a sure touchdown when all of the sudden I slipped in dog shit and broke both of the bones in my arm. It was really gross because it looked like I had a second elbow and to top it off I had dog shit all over myself.

Last winter I was really hammered and decided that it would be an awesome idea to use my parking lot as an ice rink. I had a few good slides and was trying to go bigger when my back foot slipped out from under me and I hit the parking lot with my eyebrow. I jumped up really fast because I could hear my friends laughing when I was still in the air. I didn’t even know what happened but it was split and led to six stiches.

I’m sure there are more, because as my mother likes to say, I’m an accident prone child.

Well, this thread got dirty in a very different way than my early morning mind imagined it would.

@fireside yeah, you’re the only one who went THERE!

What can I say?
One of those days…

@fireside Just one? Geez, you’re lucky. I usually have several in a row. :-(

@jbfletcherfan – lol, well, we’ll see what tomorrow brings

@fireside that’s right. Tomorrow’s another day, Scarlett. :-)

in class 2 years ago i was just walking and i guess i slipped a little, and my leg went the wrong way. i dislocated my knee in the middle of 4th hour – and messed up the tendons somehow too – and they had an ambulance come and a stretcher come and take me out.

the guy that came to pick me up was really stupid though haha. he was like “does it hurt?” no dude, i’m just like almost in tears, and my knee is pointing in the completely opposite direction because it feels wonderful. and then he asked how i did it, and i’m like “i don’t know. i was walking and i guess my knee went out the wrong way and i fell” and he kept like interrogating me like i planned it out (“are you SURE you were just walking?” “yes dude, for the tenth time, i am sure that i was walking”)

@lynneblundell you should try that with hot pepper juice on your fingertips, makes soap seem like a vacation.

@fireside, actually, olive oil is a great massage oil, as long as you buy the extra virgin. and if anyone thinks of a dirty line about that, then you have a feeeeeeelthy mind!

Well, I once spilt oil on the ground, and saw my brother coming. I told him not to step in the area, and of course he didnt listen to me. He slipped on the oil. The funniest part was that he slipped again trying to get up!
The first part might have been stretched ;)

one of the few memories i have about actually being with my dad and having fun…
he took me to sign up for driver’s ed class. we had to be there EARLY b/c of first come/first served.
well, we got done early too, we were leaving the building around 9am.
we walk out and both AT EXACTLY the same time slip on the sidewalk because of the large patch of ice right outside the school doors.
he did some cool matrix move and managed to keep his balance. i, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky and fell straight on my butt.