Jellylegs


I will mark this day, 7th of May, as the worst, no, second worst day of my entire life. Why only second? Because the worst one is the day I got mugged in a taxi – nothing beats that shit.

So I start today walking on the sidewalk, towards the steps that lead to the office building entrance. It was raining pretty hard. The news declared typhoon “Emong” had arrived.

I had been carrying loads of stuff – my large bag, a paper bag and my laptop. Got both my hands full.

So there I was, pre-occupied with my bags, walking towards the steps when I slipped. Yeah. Slipped on the pavement. I mean, gawdamnit, slipped on the pavement with my knees and my hands on the floor kind of slipped.

I saw my bags hit the floor to my right. But in a flash, I was up again and made a beeline for the door (Miriam Quiambao, isdatchu?). Loads of people saw me, and I didn’t want to stick around to look at their faces. This wasn’t Miss Universe, where I can win first runner-up if I slip and get up with a smile. Besides, I was beet red with embarrassment. When the doors of the elevator closed in front of me, I saw the shin of my trousers dark with water and my knees were hurt. I tried to hide my knees with the paper bag.

Well actually, I think my ego hurt more than my knees.

I laughed about it when I got into the office. Thank goodness I had another pair of trousers to change into. It would’ve been funny in hindsight,right?

Little did I know that there was more to come when night fell.

I had to go to the mall after work to get some drugs. Herbal. Oops, that didn’t come out right. I meant homeopathic. Wait, that sounds like homo-empathic (even if I am). Ah, whatever. I went to get some sleeping pills.

I prepared to walk home after that, and it was still chucking it out with rain outside. I mean buckets. No biggie, I had my umbrella and the flat was just a block away. My jeans got wet (there goes another pair of trousers) and I swear, it got so heavy that you’d think they were made of lead.

I was so relieved when I arrived at the building and into the elevator, that I was damn well shocked to find that the bottom part of my paper bag had given way. The stuff inside? They were gone.

Panic!

I dropped my leftover things in my room and went straight back down to retrace my steps and hopefully still find my “lost stuff” and praying I had not dropped them near the stinky trash bags that I passed by on the way home.





The culprit


(Side note: Never trust paper bags! Especially when it’s raining! THEY WILL LET YOU DOWN. I shoulda gone green long ago and used those canvas shopping bags instead.)

As I was about to exit the lobby, the doorman called out to me and pointed to the counter.

My “lost stuff” was sitting there, nice and dry.

Guess I was lucky after all!

But it was only 9pm. The night was still young.




To be continued… (last bit coming).







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5 Comments:

Anonymous said...

dood that hella sucks! yer gonna be hella mad when i say this, but i had NO IDEA there was a typhoon going on! yesterday was my "personal day" and i kinda just stayed home, cooked, and internet'ed with the blinds closed lol.. at least u found your stuff tho! paper bags in rain are a total fail haha. worried about the "to be continued" part lol

May 8, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Jerine said...

I thought I had a bad day... my friend asked me for a favor to check out her stuff in uni. I rushed to the uni and that place was closed. Then I rushed to return my dvds and they fine me because i was five minutes late. i went to McD's to get some cheeseburger, guess what... McD's ran out of cheeseburgers. I called up a friend and thought want to bitch about my day, but she never answer the call. So I thought of going to the library to go online and chat with friends instead. The library also close earlier, because it's friday and I forgotten about it. I walked to the bus stop and the bus passed by in front of me. And it was the last bus! I had to walk 5km back home in cold weather. I think today is the official bad luck day.

Anyway, I almost had same experience like you. It was raining and I just done grocery shopping. I fell and my stuff fell too. I thought I could pick up my stuff and continue walking, but the plastic bag was biodegradable. They melted. I couldn't carry all my stuff back. And waste almost $100 for that. Not to mention, I got cut on my ankle and bruised knee.

May 8, 2009 at 6:16 PM
eMz said...

ed:
hahaha! you're one of the lucky ones then if you had no idea what went on yesterday. XD

jerine:
damn, McD's ran out of cheeseburgers??? now THAT's bad!

May 8, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Judd said...

It's okay, it happens to everyone. It happens to me a lot, but that's because I'm so clumsy.

Or ask Jaja, the queen of clumsiness. I'm sure she has a lot of things to share (with her being always drunk and clumsy and all), apart from her "nakatapon-ako-ng-beer" stories.

May 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM
elmie said...

you have no idea how bad this is. tsk.

May 9, 2009 at 4:26 PM

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