Slipn'fall....dammit!

So, I've been real careful in my driveway...it's as slippery as dog shit. Anyway, the overhang to my door had been dripping water. It froze and my mother told me that she wouldn't even stop to see me because she doesn't want to fall. Okay, sweet. So, last night I get home and look at it and think "hmm, if I take my doormat and throw it over the ice, then noone will fall." I mean that's absolutely genius, the matt is textured and not slippery. I'm a genius I think to myself, who needs salt? I laugh at the salt. Ha.This is where the genius part comes in (as if what I just wrote wasn't pure genius)....I forget that I did that whole thing with the doormat and run out to my garage. As I am coming back in with an armful of crap, I step on the mat and SLIIIIIIPPPP! It was like I stepped on a banana peel. Son of a.....One leg went to the front and the other to the back. I landed on my hip and wrist. Fun times.Since it happened between the houses, my choice of words were very inappropriate for anyone under ten. Moral of the story:Take care of things the proper way (no half-assing things!), don't try to hide problems, because in the end...it will all bite you in the ass somehow...and make your Chiropractor a very rich man.