Help, I've fallen and can't get up!

We had two bizarre falling-while-walking incidents yesterday. Mine was in the morning, while I was walking Homer with Jennifer and Danny. It was pretty cold so I had my hands in my pockets. Somehow I managed to half-step off the sidewalk. It wouldn't have been a big deal, except that my hands were stuck in my pockets and couldn't help me balance. So instead of twisting my ankle I decided to go down and luckily managed to pull my hands out before hitting ground. Beside some minor scrapes on my palms, I'm fine - but now I understand how old people manage to break their hips.

The second and, in my opinion, more spectacular incident happened in the afternoon. Jfer and I went by the Gateway movie theater to see the new Bond flick. Of course it was sold out, so we bought tickets for The Ring and since we had almost an hour to kill decided to walk over to the Mikasa store to buy the Covered Casserole that Jennifer has been lusting after and without which our wedding china just would not be complete. We got a good deal, too - using our gift certificates and their 25% off Thanksgiving sale, we only had to pay $30 or so in cash. Walking back to the car Jennifer, while carrying the bowl, stepped on her shoe lace. Now the casserole was packed in a corrugated cardboard box and might have survived your average graceful fall - but it had no such luck. As Jennifer was going down, she swung the bag with the casserole in a big arc (not unlike what a softball pitcher does) and smashed it full force into the ground where it landed with a loud crunch. Luckily Jennifer only skinned a knee so we were laughing while she was getting up. I gave her a hug and she knocked her head against my chest breaking her eye glasses!

So the $30 casserole dish turned into a very expensive pair of glasses and a pile of broken china. And to all the people who told us we just had to see this week's Friends episode about Monica's wedding china: Thanks A Lot!