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Nope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs.

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social

@scalzi.com - for reasons I can't explain, my brain remembers you urging people to use handrails, because stairs are a technology actively trying to kill you. If I've misremembered this, sorry.

ninjamonkky.bsky.social

@ninjamonkky.bsky.social

Apparently area rugs are also agents of the Grimm reaper, statistically dangerous over a certain age.

medicjeff.bsky.social

@medicjeff.bsky.social

After 30+ years in EMS I can confirm. Throw rugs = broken hips in the elderly

There's definitely a thickness at which throw rugs save more hips than they break. It might be about 10" though 😅

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@turnerinroc.bsky.social

Throw a mattress topper under all your area rugs, what could go wrong?

ninjamonkky.bsky.social

@ninjamonkky.bsky.social

It's the furniture you hit on the way down more than the floor itself which rises up to meet you.