Well, what do you know. Today, my cycling partner and I were out for a rather frigid ride and as we passed a little local coffee shop, the call of the warm shop & hot coffee got the best of us. We turned around and I pulled up on the sidewalk, stopped at the cafe, leaning my bike by the door at the window. A few seconds later, my buddy who's ridden nearly 10,000 miles this year and has ridden about the same last year, who I work my ass off just to try to get to his level of ability, who I've never seen or heard about him not being able to unclip, couldn't get the cleats out as it stopped behind me. He fell down ON his Kniessl as it fell down on the drive side, bending his lovely-only-a-few-months-old DuraAce back derailleur really badly, jamming the entire system.

The moral of the story and this stupid poll/thread is... whether or not you've fallen yet doesn't matter, the universal law of "sh*t happens" still & always will reign supreme. You may never find yourself in that tiny micro-moment where you can't unattach from the pedals and good for you, but it says absolutely nothing about your skillz or about those who have fallen. Sh*t just happens.