I haven’t always been a clumsy person, but when you trip up the stairs instead of down them you know you have issues.
One nefarious set of steps continues to give me grief to this day. That treacherous 25 step deathtrap has mocked me since the first time I tread on the fake wood paneling. Ever seen a slide trap in a movie? I can promise you that they were made with these wretched steps in mind.
While I personally consider the act of defying gravity a skill, it turns out it isn’t a very good one. The glorious feeling of success never lasts long. Those stairs always laugh with their busted lips when my back is turned. The stairs don’t care for averages either! My size nine shoe covers the entirety of a step and then some. How my friend and his size fourteen shoes make it to their room every night I’ll never know. At least I know dwarves exist in the world of stairs!
You see stairs are a crafty bunch. You would never know it but stairs enjoy leaving messages in your shoes. We unwittingly carry them around to the next set we come across without ever knowing the truth. What else could cause the school stairs to become my biggest obstacle during my day to day life? My best friend’s stairs had left a message on the bottoms of my worn out tennies and I unknowingly brought it with me… to the worst possible place.
The public.
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