What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Occasionally, I have character in a story who is patterned after my ex, Glen. There is one in the space serial, and as I was writing about the character, I remembered this one incident with Glen. We were at a science fiction convention, doing some kind of larp (which wasn't terribly my thing), and Glen had ended up standing on a conference room table, probably acting crazy. I'm pretty sure I was thinking, "Oh, dear god, he's either going to break the table or fall and get hurt." I said something in character to get him off the table, and I remember him saying, "Thanks. I had no idea how I was going to get down."

Needless to say, in my stories, the Glen-character is the charismatic guy who leaps before he looks. He is never a bad person, because Glen wasn't a bad person. However, good intentions don't actually mitigate harm.

Oh, Glen.