As a few of us were gleefully discussing the series of events that could possibly lead up to someone breaking their elbow, let alone both of them, I came up with my own conclusions, which to me are much more interesting:

1. Your hands are full: a StarBucks Coffee in one and a Pastry in the other, and you would rather save them both than yourself.

2. You tripped while looking up, thinking that you could possibly grab onto the leaves above, or perhaps a cloud, instead of bracing yourself from the ground below.

3. You have a disease which makes you immune to having inherent natural reflexes to certain events, like kicking when the doctor taps your knee, flinching when someone claps in front of your face, or putting your hands out when you fall… instead of your elbows.

4. You have glass elbows, and when you fell you put your hands out, but both of them shattered under the pressure.

5. You have regular elbows, and when you fell you put your hands out, but the weight of your mammoth body was too much for them, and both of them "broke" under the pressure.

6. Elbows really aren't made for any kind of rigorous activity and it's a fucking miracle that more people don't break them all the time.

7. You were playing a game of jinx, after you and another secretary said the phrase "make a copy" at the same time, but instead of being silent, the punishment was to keep your hands elevated above your elbows at all times… and you are a staunch enforcer of the rules of jinx.

8. You ran straight at a wall, elbows exposed, in an attempt to get out of work for what I've heard is around six weeks. Mission Accomplished.

Whatever the cause is – which still at this point is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, dancing with a conundrum, who just had sex with a cryptogram – it's gotta fuckin' suck.