Clumsy Bumsy

Ankle sprain. Clumsy girl.

That's me.

I was rushing over an overhead bridge near my house when I tripped. I (think & only think) I tripped forward a few steps and instinctively I grabbed the side railings, hit some concrete on my right side and finally landing slightly on my right side and back. (I think so. Things happened in a flash, and it's really a flash. It must have been some 10 steps.)

A male student stopped my fall too and looked at me in shock. I stared blankly, dazed, all feeling in my left ankle gone yet I could feel it was numb. My hair was in a mess and I was wearing a skirt. The student asked if I was all right, I could only go "Owwwwwww!!! " He asked me if there was a need to call an ambulance... "Ambulance?!" I told him no need to as I would call my dad and asked the student to proceed on while I sat there and rested. My dad came quickly from home in a few mins to help me, but not before I sat, embarrassingly, on the overhead bridge steps, trying to calm down, look all right (dignified actually) while at least 5 people walked past me. Darn those narrow steps!

And yah, that's how I fell. It seems so dumb now. Was it cos of the drinks I had yesterday night? But it can't be. I was Wide Awake when I left for work. Was it cos of 7th month? Oh well. I seriously do think it's cos of the narrow overhead bridge steps. I resolved to complain to the town council or whoever.

• How can they build the steps of this idiotic overhead bridge to be so narrow, the width only fits a size 5???
• Has the contractor been sleeping???!!

Everyday I walk on this bridge, I gingerly place my footsteps cos I was afraid of falling. And it has really happened.

Sigh. And here I am, out of action for at least 4 days. Good luck to me.