As I prepare for (pretty fabulous) spinning class at Kabira gym (seriously, the bikes are great and the music bumping), I gingerly touch a black-and-blue right knee. You see, a few days ago as I was doing some laundry in the bathroom, I absentmindedly spilled some soapy water on the floor.
After hanging the delicates to dry, I bounded back into the bathroom and shwoooop! Down I went. Left leg out, right knee down, into what would have been the splits if I had been more flexible. My hand automatically flung out to grab the towel rack, but somehow in that moment I thought of the landlord and decided not to hang my weight on it.
Fortunately, all I suf
fered was a sore (and not split) knee, and my head remained far from the floor. But do you know that there are at least 9,000 deaths per year due to bathroom accidents in the U.S.? And there are over 230,000 non-fatal ER visits due bathroom injuries among those 15 years and older? Silly as it feels when you are splayed across your bathroom floor, this is surely no laughing matter.
I got up thanking my lucky stars I wasn’t elderly (or just positioned differently), for I surely would have broken something.
Bottom line: beware Omo on a wet floor! And don’t underestimate the power of the loo.
Melina Raquel Platas 