Oh wow!  Glad it wasn't worse than that.  But a sprain can hurt just awful.
And to be their speaker too, that would be embarrassing.  Glad you were
okay, even jumping one floor down.  They probably teased you about your
super man stunt.  Hope they didn't tease too badly.

I knew those stairs were there, but we had the little gate up because the
dogs were playing.  I didn't sail over the gate, so it was opened when
someone came upstairs, and evidently not closed again.

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Benton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] What a Trip


> Vicki,
> I know just how embarrassing those things can be.
> I remember in 1982 my wife and I had gone to a church in Rome, Georgia
where
> we were speaking and singing for a home coming. We had stayed with the
> preacher and his wife the year before.  The preacher had built the house
and
> they moved in before all the finishing touches were put on.  Joyce, his
> wife, in sympathy for me had put us in the master bedroom because it had
> it's own bathroom.  I assured her that there was no need for that.  Well,
we
> went upstairs and unloaded our stuff in their bedroom.  Being quite
> independant and self-sufficient, I didn't go to the bathroom in the
bedroom
> but went out into the hallway to go to the other bathroom.  You know how
we
> are.  We operate many times on automatic pilot.  I had been to the
bathroom
> before but the year before we had been in a bedroom at the other end of
the
> hallway.  In stead of taking a right turn to the bathroom, I took a left
> turn.  Well, that was the way I remembered it without giving it much
> thought.  Remember, I said they moved in before all the finishing touches
> had been added.  One of those was a banaster along the hallway over the
> stairs.  Right! I stepped off the 2nd floor and arrived at the bottom of
the
> stairs at the speed of life.  (grin)  Praise God!  All I got out of that
was
> a very badly sprained ankle.
>
> Ned
>