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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This isn't uncomfortable -- more embarassing. Actually, who am I kidding? It was both.

One time, many years ago (also at a summer associate event), we were hanging out after the event at one of the 80s clubs. It was late and I was a little drunk. Anyway, I'm talking to this one summer who is kind of cute, and her friend who didn't work at the firm, but just met us out. Her friend is smoking hot. We're getting along great and since I'm so suave bolla, I'm pretty sure I'm in there.

It had been raining and I had on a long, black coat. Not a rain coat, but light and water resistant. I'm deep into my best, laid-back, cool act. The place has stadium seating around the dance floor and I was sitting next to her, maybe 4 or 5 steps up from the floor. I start to get up to go the bathroom or get a drink or something and I don't realize that my coat tail is under my left foot. Everyone is dancing, but there is space around the edges of the dance floor. It wasn't packed.

So I get up, and take the first step with my right foot, but I can't finish it because I'm standing on the coat that I'm wearing with the other foot. If I were on a level surface, no big deal. But I'm already out there in mid air, so I fall.

I'm not talking about any old fall. I mean I started to fall, cleared the steps, but tried to keep myself from hitting the ground, so I sort of stumbled for maybe 8 feet, alternating hand, elbow and knee plants before absolutely completely losing it. Everyone is watching and I swear to God I was moving in slow motion. Right before I completely bite it, I reach up, lunging and grabbing for something, anything to keep myself off the ground. Unfortunately, I grab the bouncer around the mid-section and sort of just hang there for a second with my legs sprawled out behind me, stunned.

As I pull myself up, I say to him, "Was this half as bad for you as it was for me?" He says, "What do you think?" I glance back over my shoulder and everyone is in tears, laughing their asses off, hot girl included. Needless to say, I was most definitely not in there. Humiliations, galore. And I was the butt of every joke for the next however many weeks.

Good times.

That story just made me very happy. I love watching other people trip. I don't know why, but I think it's the funniest thing in the world.