The Art of Being Clumpsy

Have you ever had one of those weird off days when you’re just really uncoordinated? You trip over your own feet or just on a regular flat surface when there doesn’t seem to be anything there that might have even partly caused you to trip? Or maybe you’ll be walking down the hallway and trip and cause two other people to stumble at the same time? This is how everyday of my life goes. I like to call it the art of being clumsy.

The hallways during passing time are always extremely crowded and packed with people going every which way, trying to get to their next class. That, however, isn’t a good excuse for what happened to me one day. I was minding my own business and having a pretty intense conversation with a friend I was walking with. I wasn’t watching where I was going as usual and looked at my friend because she was imitating something that had happened to her earlier in the day. During this whole transaction, I didn’t realize the velocity of the person walking in front of me was at a slower rate than mine and slammed into their back and knocked their balance off. As if that wasn’t enough, the unfortunate soul I so carelessly budged, grabbed onto their friend to catch their balance before they fell and dragged their friend down with them as they fell. It was so embarrassing and I felt terrible about it. The only thing I could think to do was to excessively apologize and watch the two of them laugh hysterically as they stumbled to their feet. Luckily it was in a part of the hallway where there wasn’t much traffic going on at the time, but there were still people walking by, shooting judging glances my way. The only thing I could really do to act like it wasn’t a big deal was to laugh with the two I had knocked over. It all happened so quickly and we suddenly had to go our separate ways so we wouldn’t be late to class.

I rushed to my next class where one of my best friends was sitting and told her all about it. We laughed for a while over it and I got teased a little, which I expected, and then it was over with. Everyone will forget about it soon, but I’m sure I’ll remember it for a very long time.