How clumsy are you?

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I trip, bump into things, and drop things all the time. I love physical activity, though. Dancing is my favorite.

i am quite clumsy but i am also dextrous.
when i do not pay attention to what i am doing, i encounter many accidents.

last week, i bought a sandwich, and as i was walking back to my car, i had the sandwich wrapper clasped in one hand, and my keys and the change in the other hand.
when i got close to the car i had to decide what hand my keys were in, and i got it wrong because i opened the hand holding the sandwich, and it started to fall the ground.
(even if i had opened the correct hand, there would still have been problems).

i quickly put my hand under the falling sandwich and batted it up into the air so i could catch it as it fell back down from a height.
but i did not have time to clasp the sandwich wrapper with my fingers as it fell, so i batted it up again higher with my palm, and then as it fell again, i still could not clasp it so i batted it up even higher in the air so i would have time to get my hand ready to catch it as it fell back down.

i then successfully caught the sandwich, but i inadvertently opened my other hand, and my keys and change fell to the ground. there was some notes in the change, and they started to blow away, so i forgot i had the sandwich in my left hand, and i opened both hands to try to catch the money, and the sandwich hit the ground and i trod on it as i was chasing the money.

i think it was clumsiness, or otherwise executive dysfunction in that i could not control so many different things in my hands.

never do I not have cuts or scraps
it doesn't help that I pick them constantly

I'm clumsy, I have poor eye-hand coordination, poor fine motor skills, poor spatial relations, poor depth perception... my physical interface with the world is just BAD.

When waking up I have a hard time simply walking usually and bump my elbows, knees and feet into things often. Oddly I am an excellent swimmer though....

I'm not that clumsy. I'm quite adept at catching things I've dropped or knocked over.

I'm very clumsy. I fell down the stairs yesterday.

I'm not clumsy, but I have my moments.

Very clumsy here, always spilling food and drinks, knocking things over, dropping things, falling over my feet etc.

Clumsy is my middle name. I'm always walking into walls, furniture and other things. I drop things a lot sometimes breaking them.

I'm a huge klutz. My mates have a tongue in cheek name for me which I won't repeat here as it may cause offence. But yeah the fact my mates have a name for me to describe my klutziness is pretty bad I suppose.
I often say "I was definitely not made to navigate this world successfully". This is because I struggle to open doors, windows and do other extremely simple coordinative tasks that others seem to do with ease. I never learnt to ride a bike due to balance issues. I can barely even walk! If I'm walking next to someone they often complain about how I keep falling into them.
I also always drops things on the floor and have injured myself several times through dropping things on my feet.

So yeah. I'm pretty bad.

I am super clumsy and I have high tolerance for pain. That means lots of mystery bruises. Also, I often get so caught up in my head thinking about stuff that I forgetto pay attention to my physical bosy. It makes for many scenes right out of the nerd manual.

One of my favorite cartoon ever is all about this... I can't seem to find a good link to post so just search:

Gary Larson Midvale School for the Gifted

I'm a total klutz. I am constantly walking into doorframes, wall corners and anything else possible, I constantly burn myself on the oven and iron, and I always various bruises. I've walked into a pillar box in the street and have a history of not walking in a straight line. The list goes on...

Fine motor skills Nick said. I say, "what the heck are Fine Motor skills" because I have next to none. I had gotten pretty good with a joystick a couple decades ago but that has lapsed. I shake when doing anything delicate.
Also, I trip over bumps that exist in parallel universes or something..
The real miracle is, I have only managed to break a couple of bones in my 5 decades! I should be like old Evil Knievel with all broken bones & metal pins.

Sincerely,
Matthew
Please look under Klutz in any encyclopedia because my pic will be found there!

Well, my offspring kringe if they hear me say, "ow", when I am in the kitchen making dinner because I have cut, burned, spilled on and scorched myself repeatedly. You're not alone in this. And it is not because of being fifty something; I've been this way my whole life. The weird thing is I can throe a wadded up paper into the garbage from across the room, but trip over the coffee table a minite later even though it's been in that spot for five years.
I have scars and bruises all over my hands and lower arms, and particularly right now, I am thoroughly 'decorated' with black and blue marks from packing and loading stuff for a move.