How to fall off a ladder...

It's very easy.

You climb up the ladder, wait until it starts raining, then start climbing down.

Oops! Your silly foot slipped on the bottom rung, and your heel struck the pavement with a very loud SLAP! and suddenly there is this very bad pain in your ankle, and you wish you could reach down and rip your ankle off your leg because it is sending you these very unnecessary messages of extreme pain.

And pain hurts.

Instead of doing the smart thing, which is to go back in the house and pack it in ice and sit on the couch and watch movies the rest of the day, you head off to work ... because your project is behind schedule and you have customers coming in for training next week.

So you drive (ow!) to work (ow!) wincing (ow!) every time you press (ow!) in the clutch. And then you work (ow!) until the pain (ow!) is so bad that you are afraid you (ow!) won't be able to (ow!) drive back home. So you go (ow!) home.

And then you finally pack it in ice and lay on your bed with the foot propped up on a pillow, and do more work on your laptop because ... you still have all this work to do, and as long as you're just sitting there, you might as well get something done!