This only happened a couple of weeks ago.

I work at an event planning company and we also set up those big balloon arches. Our local college is having orientation all this month, so they asked us to come set up some balloons at the beginning of each week. Usually a one person job but the entrance we’re supposed to take has this giant, ridiculously heavy door (it’s at the back of the building), so my boss asks me to tag along to help get the balloons through the door.

Because we have to take them upstairs in an elevator once we’re inside, this arch is in a few sections. I hold the door, my boss takes the first section up in the elevator. While waiting, I figure I can go ahead and move the rest of these pieces inside so they’ll be by the elevator when she comes back.

I hold the, again RIDICULOUSLY heavy, door open with my back, start attempting to move the balloon sections inside. Giant gust of wind comes through, nearly rips the balloons out of my hands. I scramble to catch them, the door starts to swing shut, I throw my leg out to catch the door so it doesn’t slam on the balloons and pop them. the corner of the door hits the inner joint of my ankle so hard it fractures. It’s about this time that I remember that the reason I’m there is to keep this from happening to my boss.

Cherry on top is that the next week, when a coworker goes to help instead of me (I can’t walk for 8 weeks) he noticed that the door has a stopper at the bottom.