It was raining again today  so on my way home I walked through the rain with my umbrella and got to my train station. Got past the gates which tried to quickly shut on me as I passed through, then found out that one of the escalators was broken and not working so everyone had to go down one set of stairs.  My shoes must have been really wet or the stairs were being especially slippery today because…

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I got on a step and a few seconds later felt myself slipping and fell down backwards! I hit my bottom against my right shoe and somehow managed to bang the same foot against the step at the same time!  Those ruddy escalators!

Also as soon as I fell I said a very bad word, very loudly!

The four women around me stared at me in shock and the woman in front of me turned around and said “Are you ok?” I said; “I just fell down the stairs.” and then she turned to the front and we just carried on like nothing had even happened!

It was a bit surreal, like we were just pretending I didn’t say a bad word and I didn’t fall in an undignified manner on the stair. I felt like laughing.

Then when I got home I found out that my brother had slipped and fallen on an escalator step too!