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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Well ... I'm sitting on a heating pad .... multiple heating pads .... why you ask? Well, I was carrying the groceries up the back stairs when multiple bags suddenly burst, dumping 2 liter bottles of soda on the stairs and on my feet ... causing me to lose balance and almost plummet to the driveway (our back stairs are 15 steps) ... because my hands were full and not on the railing .... but I managed somehow to twist/contort/whatever to hold myself on the step ... and as a result sprained/strained/pulled most of the muscles in my back and neck, as well as my quads. At the time it seemed a better choice than plunging head first down the steps onto the concrete driveway. Now I'm not so sure ..... sigh .... When I can move again I'm planning to return to the store and tie plastic bags over the *#)@_!#($ lazy bagger that didn't double bag the soda bottles.
Sigh ... back to the heating pads now.
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It's amazing how often our time-saving actions (in this case, carrying multiple bags leaving no hands free for the railing) can cause a lot more hassle and inconvenience in the long run. Like carrying too many plates and glasses from the living room to the kitchen, and dropping half of them (yes, it's happened to me) resulting in additional time wasted clearing up, and the liberal application of plasters (band-aids) thereafter to the cuts from the glass shards.
Hope your back and attendant pains get better soon. As @dreams said, it's got to be better than actually taking the fall.