Tim Streater wrote:
On 07/03/2010 13:24, Adrian C wrote:
On 07/03/2010 13:13, Tim Streater wrote:

In the distant past, I've walked into things because I was looking at
the girl and not where I was going.

Doing a Rowan Atkinson?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-RkuXPj3Q4

:-)

I've done the first (not the second).

Worse was walking into one of those upside-down-conical flower tubs that
come up the the upper shin. Head first over the tub and lots of blood
running down the leg.

What about those black chains you get (not so often these days) hanging
between knee-high concrete posts, esp in car parks - with sharp-pointed
metal studs poking at right-angles through the links (there's no doubt a
name for it).

My Dad came home one evening having tripped over a length of it in a
dark car park, when I was a kid; and I still have vivid memories of the
damage those studs had done to his shins.