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Seems like an essential item to place at the top of every staircase, with the butler fetching and returning it after each descent. |
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I broke my clavicle falling down some stairs. I can't see any way of wiring it up, i.e. reinforcement with elements in tension, that would help if a half-asleep klutz lands on his shoulder from about 8' in the air. |
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Emergency airbag that inflates at the bottom of the stairs. |
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Baked in (checks script) the 12th century AD. See link. |
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I've been thinking, and I'm sure that I would injure myself trying to put it on. I'm the type of person who collides with safety signs, or trips over a flat floor. This morning a tine on a fork went under a fingernail when I tried to empty the dishwasher. At least the pain took my mind off the burn on my hand I received whilst ironing. |
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//I'm the type of person who collides with safety signs, or trips over a flat floor.// |
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You're not alone. My colleague has quite spectacularly unlikely accidents regularly. The most recent involved dashing to the bathroom because he felt he was going to vomit, he was right, but didn't make it: threw up on the hard wood floor while still apparently moving quite quickly so that he then slipped on his own vomit. Common sense and momentum would dictate that at least he continued in the general direction of the bathroom, but no. He somehow slid to the right and back on himself to slide head first down some stairs. At the bottom was a utility sink that had been clogged for a couple of days. He breaks the drain pipe and ends up in a pool of rancid water. |
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My wife is a milder phenotype, she would definitely find a way to get a fork tine under her fingernail. This phenotype I have studied however. For whatever reason, she stops looking at the thing she is doing a fraction of a second before its done. Putting a glass in a cupboard? Glass is half an inch above the shelf, task is essentially complete! Glass rests partially on jar lid, falls over and rolls out of cupboard. Pick up iron? Hand is 2" from iron handle, turn away to start the next phase of task> hand now grabs hot base plate. |
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It should probably be studied, it definitely causes damage, time loss & injuries in the millions and therefore likely deaths. There's a focus timing issue, possibly a 3D vision or visual processing issue, maybe proprioception? Like I say, should be studied. |
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My falling down the stairs serves as an example of the opposite end of the scale, I think. It was night, dark, but I knew fully where I was going, put my hand out to grab the end of the banister: here's my physical cue, walk to the LEFT to go down the hall to the bedroom. Except I'd just moved into a house that was a mirror image of the house I was used to and stepped into empty space. |
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38 years ago I went for a two week hang-gliding expedition in the French and Spanish Pyrenees. Came back in one piece, went to phone my mum to tell her I was home OK, and on the way out I badly gashed my head on the phone box door. I still have the scars. |
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