How to Fall Down Stairs

Your mother should’ve taught you, “There’s a right way to do everything.”

That includes falling down a flight of stairs.

Here’s how stunt men do it. The difference is they expect to fall down the stairs, they’re ready for it, and they’ve practiced a lot. We just slip and fall.

But heck, it’s just like I learned in judo school, many years ago: tuck your chin against your chest, protect your head, and don’t stick your arms out. After a few thousand practice falls, you’ll have it down pat.

Then you can practice falling down the stairs.

‘Splat! Goes the Writer’ (2012)

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It’s been brutally cold out here in Jersey-land, these last few days of March. But then we always seem to have bad weather in March. Like this:

Splat! Goes the Writer

I was probably lucky the doorstep wasn’t iced, too. A few days ago in Pennsylvania, snow and ice and fog combined to create a horrendous pileup on Route I-81. People were killed. Dozens of cars and trucks were wrecked.

We’re supposed to get some warm weather today, finally. But somewhere I’ll bet it’s snowing.