Our bad luck day

footman · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:35

Apologies for posting this but just had to have a moan. We went to Essex to see my aged Mum who is in the throes of slipping quietly away. Crossing the pavement outside her nursing home my wife put her foot on a piece of bad paving, fell down and cut her forehead.
She also broke her glasses, less than 7 days old and cost her £350!

When we came out of the home some scrotes had punctured our front tyre and my brothers front tyre....1 hours wait for great RAC guy because I could't get the wheel nuts off.

Still, could be worse. We could be having a financial meltdown :eek:

yermum · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:39

Poor yous. Hope tomorrow is better for you both.

Participant · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:40

Some days, istby.

Ricochet J · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:40

Where did she get her glasses from?

Nix · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:40

See the problem here is that you came to Essex.

JBuk · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:41

unlucky, were the glasses insured?

more importantly is your mum comfortable? must be awful for you

valve90210 · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:44

footman said:
Crossing the pavement outside her nursing home my wife put her foot on a piece of bad paving, fell down and cut her forehead.
She also broke her glasses, less than 7 days old and cost her £350!
QUOTE]

"Where there's blame, there's a claim!" ;o)

Seriously tho, might be worth looking at. Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

Valve

GeForce · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:53

Oh dear

Hopefully tomorrow will be better

KittensCake · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:56

LOL, how do you trip on some paving whilst walking and cut your forehead? Doesn't she have arms? She just fell straight onto her face?

Kristoph · 12 Oct 2008 at 20:58

KittensCake said:
LOL, how do you trip on some paving whilst walking and cut your forehead? Doesn't she have arms? She just fell straight onto her face?

lol

asim18 · 12 Oct 2008 at 21:00

KittensCake said:
LOL, how do you trip on some paving whilst walking and cut your forehead? Doesn't she have arms? She just fell straight onto her face?

ROFL Best reply so far!

strudey · 12 Oct 2008 at 21:09

KittensCake said:
LOL, how do you trip on some paving whilst walking and cut your forehead? Doesn't she have arms? She just fell straight onto her face?

:/

Sankari · 12 Oct 2008 at 21:28

Nix said:
See the problem here is that you came to Essex.

^^

Megahurtz400 · 12 Oct 2008 at 21:29

Welcome to Essex

SexyGreyFox · 12 Oct 2008 at 23:01

KittensCake said:
LOL, how do you trip on some paving whilst walking and cut your forehead? Doesn't she have arms? She just fell straight onto her face?

Footman is one of the older posters on here which makes his wife as old as him.
We old folk don't fall like you young folk.

G-MAN2004 · 12 Oct 2008 at 23:03

Robbie G said:
Some days, istby.

'istby'?

footman · 12 Oct 2008 at 23:17

Thanks for the replies, I really got a good chuckle and I feel a lot better now I've read them. DMP is quite right, us oldies fall in a peculiar way and she went down like a sack of bricks. I suspect she couldn't use her arms because she was carrying gear for my Mum.
My Mum wont get any better and it wont be long before she goes. Amazingly she is very cheerful and relaxed.

jaybee · 12 Oct 2008 at 23:19

She should have gone to specsa..... Ok I'm gone

TriedandTested · 13 Oct 2008 at 00:51

OP - write to the council, get photos of your wife's injury and give full details of what happened. Get her down the docs for them to have a look at her. If the pavement was uneven or needs repairing and your wife tripped on it then they are liable.

You'll more than likely get compensation and the glass all paid for.

Info: http://www.lawson-west.co.uk/accidents_in_public_places.php (not recommending the company but read what it says).

Pestilence · 13 Oct 2008 at 01:00

Only ever seen one very old person fall and I'll agree...it ain't nice. An old woman shuffling to her bus stop, carrying a bag with each hand, arms straight by her sides - tripped and fell, straight as a board the whole way down right onto her face.

Just lay there too, face down, going "OOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!". Luckily a bunch of people did rush to help her straight away but I'd never seen anyone fall like that, no attempt to stop it at all.

So yes, old folks don't fall like young 'uns.