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• at least I thought I was dancing, 'til somebody stepped on my hand.
  -- J. B. White...
• At least I thought I was dancing, 'til somebody stepped on my hand. -- J.B. White
• I thought my window was down, but I found it was up when I put my hand through it.
• I just stepped on a factoid! - Zippy
• My superiority complex turned out to be an inferiority complex.
  I said, "Great, that makes me the least of my problems." -- Sara B. Siriu...
• I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy used to move about. -- Tony Hancock
• Why, oh why, does this happen to me? How did I end up stuck in this tree?
  The ground down below looks so far away, That if I would fall it would take me all day To hit the ground, with a thud and a thunk....
• Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
  -- Rita Rudne...