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Clutz? - 10/1/2007 4:37:38 AM   
gypsygrl


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Status: offline 		I know the answer to any question that includes "has anyone else..." is yes, so I'm kind of wondering...

It seems that I'm especially clutzy when I'm at Master's house.  The first time I cleaned their kitchen, I broke the cast iron burner thing on the gas stove.  Then, I broke a vase while dusting.  Then, I was walking past a cabinet and it fell off the wall. Then, I ran over a floor mat with the lawn mower. Then, I was changing sheets, and broke the pull chain on the ceiling fan.  Now, yesterday, I took his wife's car around the block to get a loaf of bread, and the gas tank fell off right there, in the middle of the road while I was driving. 

Thank god they see the humor, and laugh at this kind of stuff.  Its gotten to be kind of a joke.  When I broke the stove, I was soooo scared...I told him right away, but he took it in stride.  Yesterday, I was going upstairs to give Master a massage, and his wife made a point to tell me, "be careful..."

I'm not generally accident prone, have cleaned other people's houses and can't remember having broken anything.  At first I thought I was just too nervous, and tried to make myself relax when doing anything really dangerous, like dusting, or changing sheets.  But with the gas tank, I'm not so sure.  How could my being nervous cause a gas tank strap to corrode and fall off?

So, I'm wondering, are there others out there like me?


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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 4:59:56 AM   
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But with the gas tank, I'm not so sure.  How could my being nervous cause a gas tank strap to corrode and fall off?


How fast were you going and did you hit any suspicious bumps?
 
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So, I'm wondering, are there others out there like me?   


I’m afraid; it is usually only my physical self that gets “broken” by my klutziness. I like your way better though, sounds less painful.
 
How did you break the chain on the ceiling fan making the bed? Cuz right now I have this picture of you trying to make the bed while standing on it, holding on to the chain, in my head.
 
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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 5:06:30 AM   
laurell3


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Status: offline 		I'm guessing she was shaking the sheets in the air and hit it, although I'm having a hard time figuring out what kind of sheet would break anything?  Do they sleep in leather sheets? (ooo that's kind of hot, literally and figuratively).
Some of these things you say seem to be you not paying attention or being too nervous, that happens to most everyone. Things similar to this can happen to me at work when I am trying to do too much at once.  I end up halfass doing everything and have to slow myself down.

The gas tank thing can't be you, unless you drove the car through a yard or something.  I think the important thing to note is that although you are experiencing some klutziness, this relationship seems to be holding up well despite it and the response is humor instead of criticism. Anyway, I would laugh it up, reading it is humorous and I'm glad you seem to be in a good situation where you can all laugh alot.
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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 6:05:38 AM   
petdave


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Status: offline 		Sounds like your Master needs to take better care of his stuff!  i've driven some seriously sketchy cars and picked up my share of parts off the highway, but the gas tank is a new one.

The things that you actively broke- the vase, the stove, the ceiling fan pull (they're actually pretty easy to snap with a sharp movement... the wire that holds the ball chains together is flexible, but not very strong)- i would attribute to nervousness. Things like the cabinet and the car are more like selective association... you see yourself as being a clutz in His house, so random incidents that you would write off as unrelated to your behavior if they happened in a more comfortable environment become "your fault" in your mind because you're looking for more evidence that you're a clutz. Relax, try to do things a bit more slowly and concentrate on what you're doing, rather than why you're doing it.

Either that, or his wife is sabotaging you Wimmens are trixy beasts!

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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 6:22:00 AM   
camille65


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Status: offline 		Ohboy yes. There was a running joke at work about me and the untimely death of six office computers, two office copiers, the server room, the alarm system.
Thankfully my boss took it all in stride. (Hmmm, but he did seem very very okay when I had to stop working there lol)
I have no idea why the disasters seem to trail behind me leaving a wake of broken electronics. Sometimes I don't even have to touch them lol.
Occasionally I wondered if I were setting myself up, if I were expecting these things to such a degree that I subconsciously made them happen. I actually worried about that. I got support from friends and they agreed that I have a weirdness about me, like I can't wear watches. Or the weirdness of me and a compass (it won't point north if I hold it for very long haha).


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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 7:09:36 AM   
Celeste43


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Status: offline 		Cabinets falling off walls, floor mats left on the lawn, cars so rusty the gas tank falls off - this isn't you, it's their care of their stuff. They know to tiptoe around because the cabinet was only on by one screw. You assumed it was properly screwed in and walked normally. They need to do some major maintenance.

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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 7:10:54 AM   
DMFParadox


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Status: offline 		Ditto with camille: electronics go WONKY around Me, although it depends on My mood.  If I'm manic, or depressed, then light bulbs break, computers overheat and printers jam.  If I'm zen, then I can make computers work that have been paperweights for months--and then the minute I walk away, they stop working again.  My roommate got to the point to where he would use Me as a threat on people ("Stop flaming my board or I'll get Don to toast your computer...")  And what's really ironic?  I was a service technician for a network engineering firm for years.  The trail of bizarre equipment behavior (not necessarily failure, some of that and some of just wierdness) became legendary.

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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 7:20:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		yeah .. well i remeber having my feet be bound by friends and they helped me stand up and i fell flat on my face

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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 7:20:31 AM   
crouchingtigress


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Status: offline 		as you continue to focus on how accident prone you are and how much stuff is breaking you will continue to attract more clutzy eperainces and more broken stuff....

this is not just my POV its the law...the law of the universe...what you focus on you create more of....

thoughts create words, words create actions, actions create habiits, habbits creat personality, and personality creates destiny....so simply change your thoughts and it shall go away

the caveat being: they dont seem to care, in fact that laugh and are good natureds...it endears you to them, and them to you, so that is why you keep creating it...its fun.

just becareful, because that is really not how you want to be seen deep down and nicknames tend to stick.

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RE: Clutz? - 10/1/2007 1:45:28 PM   
gypsygrl


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Status: offline 		Just to clarify:  I don't really believe I'm all that clutzy, in a deep sense.  And, they don't really have major household maintence problems.  They deal with things that need to be dealt with, fix things that need to be fixed, and make the most of what they have.  I'm convinced that this is one of our points of compatibility.

For me, part of its just getting used to being in a different environment and learning how to navigate it and getting comfortable doing stuff for Master.  I'm sure I've learned to organize my own space in a way that suits my unique patterns and everything that's  precarious within those patterns has been weeded out over the years.   And, while I wouldn't say they don't care about the breakage, I think its to their credit that they don't sweat the little stuff and have a good sense of priorities.  I noticed right away that they don't get overly upset when something little goes wrong: they accomodate it and thats something I have to work on.  They haven't criticized me at all, and they're always appreciative when I clean and do stuff around the house even if something gets broken every now and again.  If anything, their good humor about these mishaps teaches me not to take myself so seriously and reminds me that I don't have to be perfect or walk on egg shells (a carry over from previous relationships).

I do agree that I have to pay closer attention to what I'm doing and not get into a habit of thinking that I'm clutzy.


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