< I about fell out.
Speaking of language - that phrase isn’t used everywhere. Are you or your people from the South? Black?
I remember on a show about Jeffrey Dahmer where they played the 911 call from (black) people who saw the young Asian boy Dahmer had drugged. They said the boy was “steadily falling out.” I immediately understood what they meant, but the show put up a caption to explain it. Regionalisms are interesting things.
My dad was military, so I was born in the South and spent some formative years there...funny you would pick up on that!
(shudder) Jeffrey Dahmer. Satan on Earth if there ever was one.