Tripping

Have you ever noticed that if you are with certain friends and they trip or fall you might say, "Oh my gosh, are you okay?"  But then you might be with a different friend who trips and falls and you laugh hysterically?  Why is this? I know exactly why.  It's because some of us are trippers and others never do that sort of thing except on a rare occasion.  I am a big tripper.  Anybody that knows me and who is with me when I fall up the curb or over my own feet instantly starts laughing - it doesn't really matter if I am hurt or not.  There are no surprises in the fall itself, just the laugh when they realize I did it again.  Two out of four of my kids are the exact same way - yes, they are blond like me, but then again so are my two kids who are not trippers.  One of my daughters was on crutches last year for falling up the stairs at school!  My other daughter falls down the stairs so often that we just smile and continue whatever it was we were doing before we heard the thud thud thud.  Trippers don't have difficulty walking - they just trip - often - and in the most embarrassing places.  This is a life long condition - it starts young and doesn't improve with age and evidently is hereditary.  I remember my parents continually wondering how I could dance gracefully at every dance recital but then was a never ending klutz upon walking.  Trippers have other symptoms.  We are also spillers.  Trippers/spillers should never wear white.  We do anyway because we always think that we will be careful on those days but it never fails, we spill or stand too close to something and get dirt or something on ourselves.  Again, people laugh.  Someone else might have a stain and people offer to loan them their jacket, but spillers and trippers are pretty much expected to have something on them.  Occasionally something really unfortunate occurs and we are carrying something and we consecutively trip and then spill.  This is especially unfortunate when we spill on someone else.  I remember spilling on my prom date my senior year at dinner - luckily it was just water.  Actually people don't get too annoyed with trippers/spillers.  They usually provide the entertainment.  When I reevaluate the reasons my fellow trippers/spillers and I trip and spill I think it's because we are people who are always in a hurry.  We have a lot of energy and get excited to get somewhere and are more focused on where we are headed than the manner in which we are walking or the things that are in the way or the manner in which we are drinking or eating.  Remember, after we have been outed, tripping and spilling is expected of us so it's just another way we can entertain others and provide them with a moment of laughter.  As far as any self-help suggestions for trippers and spillers, there are none.  I could tell you to slow down and to be careful but that doesn't usually stick.  What I can tell you is to look at the bright side and be proud to be a tripper/spiller.  Not everyone can be so predictable and entertaining at the same time.