Thursday, September 4, 2008

Attack of the marble staircase

It was 11:50 am, the professor excused us from an enthralling seminar about reading Renaissance Iconography and invited us to take a slice of pizza from the table outside of the classroom. As a poor college student who doesn’t have a meal plan, I was one of the first people to jump up from my chair and exit the classroom. I was sorely disappointed when all the pizza choices included meat. But, seeing as I was desperate, I decided to take a piece of pepperoni anyways. I start to descend the marble staircase, picking off the pepperonis as I went. About half way down the stairs my foot slipped from underneath me and down I went. All the way down. A minute later I found myself in a heap at the bottom of the stairs with my pizza, plate, pepperonis, and bag sprawled all around me. My state of shock was broken only when a kid started shouting “Holy Moly” about ten times at the top of his lungs. I looked up to see a class of about 100 exiting their classroom right in front of me. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t in some horror film. When I realized that this was in fact real life, grabbing the dislodged items, I hopped up and ran for the door. I got outside the building, but was still too mortified to stop. I finally found refuge across the street and behind a tree. I waited until all the students had left the building before enabling the 10 second rule and eating my pizza and hurrying off to my next class.
So yeah I win for the most embarrassing college moment so far.

4 comments:

Kristin said...

Oooh Suzanne I'm quite surprised that I haven't done that yet... knowing my and all my clumsy glory

Jocelyn said...

oh how i love you...

Anthony said...

Suzanne! You've written two posts without my knowing!!!! HOW CAN THIS BE?!!?!

Anyways, that story is amazing. "HOLY MOLY!" wow. You win for best college story to come from any of our friends yet (well... actually Ben's latest assessment of BYU very much won my heart over but it wasn't as much a story as much as it was a way of thinking that matched mine perfectly)

ALSO you should know your gift you gave me for my birthday- the flag deals- definitely adorn the walls surrounding my writing space which I spend about 80% of my life at lately. What an honor!

Anastasia said...

How horrible! I am glad that you weren't hurt!