Walt Disney Presents..

If you happened to be driving down Diversey right near Pine Grove here in Chicago today at around 4:45pm today, you got a show. The main character of the show was me and the duration of the program was about 4 seconds.

I parked my car at a meter right in front of the store I was quickly popping into today on Diversey, still clad in my gym clothes and a light, and therefore not suitable for the snowy weather, jacket. I knew I was just going from the car to this store though, so no big deal. As I stepped out of my car the cold wind hit me so I locked my car and jogged around the front of it to reach the sidewalk.

You know that sort of slow jog you do when you're not RUNNING towards something, but it's just sort of, like in this instance, cold so you do a little mini-jog towards wherever you're going? Well that's what I was doing.... for a moment anyway.

As I jumped up onto the sidewalk from the street and turned to head to the front door of the shop, both of my feet, upon making contact with what I soon realized was solid ice, flew out from under me. Rather than turning slightly to my right, I took flight.

Oh to have the slow motion replay of that moment.. preferably with a close-up of my facial expression.

Flat on the ground, face down.

As if I didn't look sexy enough coming straight from the gym with a mis-matched outfit of blue Puma Pants, black shoes and a brown jacket. Now I got to draw a little more attention to myself as a line of no less than 15 cars waited at the stop light 3 feet from my landing pad and got to see my rendition of Disney's "Mason on Ice."

I laughed out loud.
I have a feeling others did too.
My pride.. well it cried, but I laughed.

M.db