I blame it on the codeine

I crashed my office chair again...

It is what I get for being lazy and trying to wheel over to the trash can. Hit a bump and tipped over. Dumped me right out onto the floor. Fortunately, no one was around to witness this incident. And there were no injuries. I blame it on the codeine in my cough syrup....

This is not the first time there has been an accident involving me and an office chair. I used to work part time as a research assistant for a company developing wound dressings. I did their bench work. It was the end of the day and i was showing my boss (Iranian guy with a PhD from Princeton) my results on the computer. We wanted to compare the numbers to what we actually saw in the test tube....I was going back and forth between the lab bench and the computer across the room. I was at the computer and my boss was at the lab bench.

I was kneeling in the chair at the computer when all of the sudden the chair shoots out from under me. I begin the descent face first toward the floor....on the way down, I hit my chin on the edge of the desk and failed to let go of the mouse. Apparently I thought the mouse could save me....i clung to it for dear life and jerked the mouse right out of the computer. The chair ended up about 10 feet across the room by my boss.

I think he was as stunned as I was. I wanted to crawl in a hole in die. He asked me if I was OK and what happened.....all I could muster up was " I'm fine, my ego is just a little bruised". He was so confused, because it happened so fast. One minute we were discussing the results, and in an instant I was face down on the floor.

Moral of the story: Chairs were meant for sitting, not for kneeling (thanks mom)....especially rolling chairs on tile floors....