I am standing about ten feet away from where my ukes hang on the the wall, hanging up a cordless phone. The phone doesn't make it onto the cradle, and begins to fall to the hard wood floor. I stick my foot out to break the fall, but actually kick the phone across the uke, where it hits the wall next to my Kumalae, bumps the Kumalae which then starts to jump out of its wall hanger. I dash across the room as the Kumalae is working it's way out of the hanger and grab it just as it is about to plunge five feet down to the hard wood floor.
Wait, this actually happened last night......no damage to the uke. In my feeble attempt to stave off phone destruction, I almost killed a 70 year old ukulele!