I'm sorry! How frightening! But you handled that situation well and the worker coming to help you restores my faith in people a bit more.

Bob,
I started reading your thread with great dread. While I know it was scary, painful and probably humiliating to you, thanks goodness you weren't seriously hurt! Please like David says, consider using a walking aid.

Billye

((((((Bob)))))),

Number 1 -- You are NOT stupid. The town is stupid for continuing to use those bricks in the crosswalks. There are new technologies (StreetPrint or DuraTherm) that are safer and cheaper to maintain and look better.

Number 2 --

Number 3 -- Didn't your optometrist teach you about tipping your head down so you can see your feet clearly??

Number 4 -- You've got neuropathy and you're carrying 4 bags of groceries Didn't know they were holding the Superman tryouts this week. Get a shopping cart or shop more frequently -- easier on your poor body

Number 5 -- I'd be making a trip to the mayor or the selectmen's office with information about a different, safer type of "sidewalk brick". Maybe *THIS* was The Universe's plan in the first place

I hope you feel better tomorrow. BIG HUGS.

Barb

Bob,

I know (from experience ) that it's embarrassing, but, take it from us, it is not a reflection on you!

rose

COLONIAL pain!

Get a big back pack, go armed with a cane [just in case-but it comes in handy for self-defense..just a precaution]. And, of course A HUG? - j

At least, someone was around to help you up...it's a little thing, but, also a big thing.

Awwwwwwww Bob
and a few from me
Feel better.

Be gentle with yourself, at least for the next few days.

(I admire the humor with which you have come through these falls. I suppose one could argue that technically, these are comic, in the pratfall sort of way. But to the one experiencing, it can hardly be very funny at the time.)

Sorry to read of another fall Bob , but mate, your far from stupid or dumb, that fall could have happened to ANYONE, its your local Councils fault, not yours, for leaving the pavement in that condition.
I would have been scared too, crikey with cars coming at you and all,
Thank god for that good guy for helping you, i hope you are not in to much pain.
take care
Brian

I know this feeling... I just fell again last fall at my son's new townhouse!
Mortifiying since his old pal from High School was there...I tripped over a stupid
step that was not obvious...in the middle of the sidewalk. I too was carrying grocery bags. I have TRI-focals...and the step was in my Blur Zone.
Falling in a street...that must have been horrible!

I know that zone well.

I hope you are okay, Bob.. I too had a road rash.

One must be very viligiant these days... my downfall (pun intended) is daydreaming...I am always thinking about stuff...work, answers to this board, etc. I am very careful now around stairs--we have alot of them here at home.
I do not look around, or think about ANYTHING but my feet on stairs. If someone talks to me, I am a not "there" until I am done.