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I do small jobs for a family friend who can get really mad under the wrong conditions. One of the projects he's had me working on is installing an old, useless bathtub as an herb garden. Before I follow through, he wants draining tiles put up along the wall of his house, so water won't get in his basement anymore. (It's a fairly old house, built before those were standard.) This involves digging a trench along that wall. The sun shines on that spot in the evening, so he gave the A-OK to do it in the morning- today. Emphasis on 'He wants it done today.' So this morning, I wake up, realize I won't be on time, head to the place, and start digging. I don't weigh much, so the shovel is unwieldy as I try to shove it through clay-like soil. I decide what it needs is more, sudden force, so I start jumping on the flat spot at the back of a shovel blade. I'm certain I must look ridiculous, trying to use a shovel as a pogo stick. But mid-day approaches, and I try to go faster- so I slip, tumble backwards on one twisted ankle, and scrape up the parts of me that aren't horribly misshapen. Now I'm bedridden with ice, and can't do it.
<bot>: A job escalated in scale until I had to do a lot fast, I fell off a shovel and messed up my ankle.