Trip Up the Stairs

Whenever I trip on my way up a flight of stairs (very infrequently, especially considering the incredible number of times I am up and down even our house stairs every day), I am reminded of a funny conversation with my mom.

She began with, "I don't understand how anyone trips when going down the stairs. There isn't anything to trip on. People trip up the stairs, when they catch their foot on a riser. You could really hurt yourself doing that."

We went back and forth with it. I suggested that one perhaps does not "trip" down the stairs, but rather "missteps," resulting in a catastrophic tumble. And while we were at it, "tripping" while going up the stairs has a likely outcome of a busted up shin, at worst, so really there's no comparison of the relative dangers of tripping up or down. Either way, we were obviously arguing about semantics.

She kept saying, "There's a step there. Just step onto it. There's nothing to trip on. You are going down the steps." It just went on and on, with each of us trying to explain what the other wasn't understanding. At some point we drew descriptive drawings, with arrows and other advanced physics notations. It was so funny. I know... you probably had to be there.

Much like the pain pill story (um, except there was NO MORPHINE involved here), I'm guessing someone told her they "tripped down the stairs" and she got hung up on the tripping part.

We watched The Brothers Bloom last night. It's an adventure-slash-romantic-comedy sort of deal. Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is the neatest character. She's this socially awkward, lonely bajillionaire, yet she has such a love of life, constantly learning new and interesting things. She says at one point that she "collects hobbies." She is the mark of a team of two con-artist brothers and their female pal, and ends up longing to be one of the gang. Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody are the brothers. It was very charming and worth a rental!

Penelope [to Bloom]: I think you're constipated... in your f*ing soul... I think you might have a really big load of grumpy, petrified poop up your soul's ass.

LOL

And the thunderstorm scene. Ahahaaaaa! That may be a running gag for the rest of my life. Must check the weather...