Funny fall (NYC women will appreciate most)

edvedder913

So last night I was going to Duane Reade over on Vanderbilt near Grand Central and the bulk of the block has those steel grates on the sidewalk. It is the ventilation for the trains underground.

So this girl comes out of DR and goes to cross the street...she is dressed in a suit and wearing high heeled pumps. She puts 1 foot down and her heel goes into the grate so she loses her balance.....and starts to fall forward....then her 2nd foot goes down and also gets stuck in the grate.....next thing you know, poor girl has fallen into the street is on the ground shoeless - her 2 high heels stuck a few feet behind her in the grates.

Well....I never laughed so hard at someone falling - of course AFTER asking her if she was okay - and she was laughing too. As was anyone else who saw. It was hilarious.

I thought most NYC females knew never to step on those while wearing heels.....maybe she was new to town

Steve Dunne

I did that coming out of the Boar's Head on 3rd once. Minus the heels.

xavier mcdaniel

did you shoe the shoeless when you helped out?

edvedder913

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

did you shoe the shoeless when you helped out?

ha. no I let her do that on her own

Get_Right

ha
actually

ha ha

double ha

edvedder913

Get_Right wrote:

ha
actually

ha ha

double ha

funny man....

Get_Right

edvedder913 wrote:

funny man....

sorry

Im on a ha kick since last week.

edvedder913

Get_Right wrote:

sorry

Im on a ha kick since last week.

notice there was no 'ha' in my original post. and it would have been fitting.

meme

That's hilarious. I cannot positively contain myself when I see people fall, or when I fall myself.

The other day, when it was snowy outside I fell on the stairs of my son's school. Did the whole legs up thing and domino-kicked the mom in front of me who fell as well.



One time on the mountains my mom and I were walking. A car was parked on the sidewalk, so she went on one side of it and I went on the other. At some point I was talking to her and all of a sudden on the other side of the car I see her feet instead of her head. Priceless.

edvedder913

meme wrote:

That's hilarious. I cannot positively contain myself when I see people fall, or when I fall myself.

The other day, when it was snowy outside I fell on the stairs of my son's school. Did the whole legs up thing and domino-kicked the mom in front of me who fell as well.

oh yeah I am the worst - my 8 year old son has to correct me sometimes! lol.

did the school kids see that one? they must have laughed hysterically!

decides2dream

poor woman!


i can just *see* the visual with that, and hell yes, i'd be rolling with laughter as well! dear gawd. seriously, MUST be a newbie to not know you don't step on the grates with heels.

1STmammal2wearPants

I would have laughed so hard right in her face.

JaneNY

I barely step on those grates even when not in heels. (Not from nyc, but I go there whenever I can)

GreenTeaDisease

I've never fallen, but I have gotten my heel stuck and my shoes have come right off as I continued walking! (they have those in lots of cities!)

nfanel

meme wrote:

That's hilarious. I cannot positively contain myself when I see people fall, or when I fall myself.

me neither. in fact, just reading this thread made me laugh out loud.

karma got me bad this weekend, though. i laughed for about two days over my friend falling hard on some ice a few weeks ago. saturday i was the one that bit it. i was walking into my nephew's birthday party over some snow...package in one hand, bowl with fruit and dip in the other....landed on my stomach - present and fruit went flying. jeans were snow covered all the way up to my hip. i had an audience and they all enjoyed it.

nfanel

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I've never fallen, but I have gotten my heel stuck and my shoes have come right off as I continued walking! (they have those in lots of cities!)

this also happened to me yesterday. i was walking along wooden train tracks in heels....got stuck, shoe came off, people piled up behind me. it's been a rough week.

Allie

edvedder913 wrote:

So last night I was going to Duane Reade over on Vanderbilt near Grand Central and the bulk of the block has those steel grates on the sidewalk. It is the ventilation for the trains underground.

So this girl comes out of DR and goes to cross the street...she is dressed in a suit and wearing high heeled pumps. She puts 1 foot down and her heel goes into the grate so she loses her balance.....and starts to fall forward....then her 2nd foot goes down and also gets stuck in the grate.....next thing you know, poor girl has fallen into the street is on the ground shoeless - her 2 high heels stuck a few feet behind her in the grates.

Well....I never laughed so hard at someone falling - of course AFTER asking her if she was okay - and she was laughing too. As was anyone else who saw. It was hilarious.

I thought most NYC females knew never to step on those while wearing heels.....maybe she was new to town

I know exactly where that is!
:eek:
oh no! Fortunately she was ok! She could have broken an ankle! Yeah I don't like to step on those things at all, heels or not!

Heineken Helen

I LOVE seeing people fall, obviously if they're not hurt... but especially if it's first thing in the morning.

SLIGHTLY off track... yesterday I got off the train and was walking along behind this girl in a skirt... I was kinda looking at the ground and at one stage looked up as she was trying to control the skirt in the wind. Her skirt went RIGHT up, her entire arse and legs were on view... but 'luckily' she was wearing HUGE knickers I laughed the whole way home... poor girl.

meme

edvedder913 wrote:

oh yeah I am the worst - my 8 year old son has to correct me sometimes! lol.

did the school kids see that one? they must have laughed hysterically!

Nope, no kids. Just very concerned parents. I swear I don't know how they kept a straight face after that one