Dignity. Always dignity.

[lizbee]

I just want to point out that I've been falling down and injuring myself while sober for almost 30 years. Just ONCE I have too much wine, slip on an uneven surface and sprain my ankle on my way home from a work dinner, and my family is ringing up to tease me about being a drunk.

Meanwhile: ow. TO THE DOCTOR! I might also get him to have a look at my knee, since I landed so heavily on that that I didn't notice the pain in my ankle right away. I had almost forgotten about it until just now, when I bumped it lightly and spent five minutes with REALLY QUITE A LOT OF PAIN.

In conclusion, tiny yum cha dishes, however delicious, are inadequate sustenance when the waiters keep refilling your wineglass.

Comments

[marymac]

That is, unfortunately, what families are for. Hence how an Aged Aunt will never hear the end of the time she fell and broke her wrist at a wedding and did not notice for three days.

Did you perchance land on your kneecap? That bruises like nothing else on earth, even if you don't break it.

[lizbee]

I did land on my kneecap! The doctor said it was just badly bruised, but not otherwise injured.

[marymac]

And now you get to discover just how many things you hit your knee off in the course of an average day!