They always ask if I felt something."Across your foot? Your shin?" My shin? "Yeah.
Your ankle.Did you feel it?" Not really.
But before I respond, they ask again.What was it like?" they inquired."Or did you just fall?" Then they speculated I might be clumsy.Hmmph.
Clumsy.I truly don’t think so.REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS BRACES FOR POST-ELECTION GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS AS LEADERSHIP BATTLES LOOMChad Pergram slips and falls while asking Justin Trudeau a question.
(Fox News )Oh.I fall like everyone else.
I work out daily.I’ve taken a couple of tumbles on predawn runs in Alexandria, Virginia.
You never know when one of those sidewalk snakes will slither up from the asphalt and nip you on the ankle.I used to snow ski.
I studied martial arts for years and hold a second degree black belt.Clumsy? Nah."But, what do you think it was?" they follow up.Well, I have my theories.I was a little tired that day.
I noted the lip on the small staircase near the Memorial Door of the U.S.Capitol where I may have caught the edge of my brown loafers.I remember my shoes.
Rubber soles.Slight scuff on the toes.
Perfectly matched with my crisp tan summer suit.Not quite an "Obama" tan suit.
But appropriate for summer.And I thought at least reasonably dapper for traipsing around the U.S.
Capitol and covering Congress on a sweltering July day.Was it the shoes? My fatigue? Or how about my haste to "get the story." I spotted then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his small coterie of aides and a security detail descending a spiral staircase after a meeting with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.D-Calif.I would try to ask Trudeau a question.Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
(Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)No.This really doesn’t have anything to do with Trudeau.
Or the fact that I recalled that there was a picture of him, aged about 14 or 15, at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, rooting for the Expos.He’s there with his father — the most storied...