For true, we get older but not enough smarter. Pilots say any one you can walk away from is a good landing. However, as we get older, we use up our luck and one would think have learned to be a bit more careful about not having emergency landings. Not so in my case. My shop is dangerously overcrowded, I was bending a piece of bar stock by clamping it in the bench vise and pulling on it. As the bend came around, the stock loosened in the vise and I fell backward. There are an infinite number of hard and/or sharp things I should have hit, but I landed in literally the only 1' x 6' of clear floor space in the entire shop. The only damage was a skinned elbow.
jack vines