Knock Out

My mother doesn't cease to make me laugh. On Sunday I was in New Jersey and we went to go see the movie He's Not Just That Into You. (Which was the most depressing movie I've seen in a long time. This one speech that Ginnifer Goodwin gives in the movie - I felt like the words were coming out of my mouth.)

Anyway. So we are walking back to the car and as I am walking over to the drivers side I kind of see my mother stumble a little bit. Almost like her ankle gave out a little bit. Now falling runs on my mother's side of the family. We are all a little bit clutzy. No one is probably as clutzy as my aunt who when she came to see me before my prom she was getting out of the car and her foot got caught in the seatbelt and fell underneath the car. I of course not wanting to make a scene am trying to say quietly to my grandmother that my aunt just fell but of course I failed miserably.

So back to my mother. I see her slightly stumble and as I'm opening my car door I notice that she is no where to be found when I look through the windows to the other side. This lasts for about 3 seconds until I run around to the other side and see her picking herself up off the ground holding her eye. I am trying to stifle my laugh because nothing makes me laugh harder than seeing someone fall. Thank goodness my mother was half crying/half laughing. So after we decide that she doesn't need to go to the emergency room we get in the car and I swear literally in seconds she had the biggest bump coming out from her eye. I couldn't even look at it. It looked like this. But bigger.

So we knew my father was going to flip out because he overly worries - which he did. He even starts to question me on what I would do if she was unconscious. Hello? What am I an idiot? The best part is that once everyone calmed down and my mother had the ice pack on her eye I went to dial my cousin's phone number and accidentally called 911. I have no idea how I did it - but when you tell them everything is fine they still have to send an officer over to the house. Ya know in case someone is holding a gun to your head or something like that. So of course a few minutes later an officer came to the door. And with my mother's sick sense of humor, she was tempted to stand in the bay window and mouth "help" to the officer. With her knocked out eye.