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Heh…clumsy…yeah, that pretty much describes me 🙂
The funny thing is, if I’m not thinking about it, I seem to have “mad ninja skills”–for instance, a couple of years ago, I was working at Detroit Metro Airport as a baggage handler. Â One day, I was riding in a pushback tug while a coworker was driving. Â This particular tug steers from the back like a boat or a forklift, and you stand up on it rather than sitting down.
He was driving it at about 20 miles an hour (32 KPH, give or take).  Well, long story short, he made a quick left turn as he stopped to park the thing, and, as Isaac Newton predicted, I went flying off  in the direction we had been going.  My feet hit the ground, and somehow, I spun around twice and spun while dropping my hips, and stayed on my feet, much to the amazement of the guy who was driving, another coworker sitting on a nearby baggage cart, and of course, myself.  I didn’t have time to think, I just reacted.
A few days later, the guy who was sitting down watching and I were walking to the time clock to punch out, talking and joking. Â I dropped the coffee mug I was carrying, and my left hand just shot out and snatched it out of the air. Â Again, all without thinking about it.
However, any time I TRY to catch something I drop, or to stay on my feet in a bad situation, disaster is inevitable. Â Wish I could just shut down the conscious part of my mind and run on subconscious processing LOL
DW
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