I may have mentioned that I’m okay at swimming once or twice. In the pool my body seems to know what it’s doing. On dry land though, I’m like a, well, fish out of water. To put it mildly, I’m clumsy. That’s another foible to add to the chronic absent mindedness that resulted in me locking my keys in my car.

A searing (in more than one way) example was Wednesday night. One minute I was sitting there, nursing a full cup beloved tea. The next, said drink- all of it – was in my lap. Boiling hot. Steaming.

How can someone manage not to lift a cup to his lips and sip it error free? Who the hell knows. I don’t. All I know is that I can swim like a dream, I can hit a tennis serve well and my footwork is pretty good too – but in the everyday  need to get about, I’m a physical moron.

This latest episode resulted in yelp of agony as my man bits realised they were being doused on boiling fluid. Those bit are very personal, but I can say they were, ahem, tender.

Mock me at your leisure. I deserve it.

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8 responses to “I’m am idiot yes I am part 2”

  1. Marcus Avatar
    Marcus

    that’s gotta hurt NP.

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  2. NP Avatar

    You’re not wrong Marcus, not at all

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  3. Rob Mortimer Avatar

    Once while very very drunk at a friends house they got me a coffee…and the same thing happened.
    Luckily I was too drunk to feel the pain!

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  4. NP Avatar

    At least you have an excuse.

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  5. stuart Avatar
    stuart

    This is more about psychological barriers than anything else. If you can co-ordinate yourself in the pool, or even on the court (yet to be tested) you can do it in the real world. Simply treat every change of direction like a tumble-turn, every tricky cup to mouth move like a well timed forehand. Bingo.
    You’ll look like a ballet dancing merman, but your balls will love you for it.

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  6. fredrik sarnblad Avatar

    If you can hit a tennis serve well (something I can relate better to than swimming since I basically sink in a pool) I think Stuart is right – it’s about psychological barriers more than anything else. But thinking about a ballet dancing merman (especially if it entails a leotard), I think you may want to live with your self-alleged clumsiness.

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