I had a great set of stairs growning up from my room to the first floor of our house and it was carpeted and I would run down them and half the time, slide on my tailbone bump bump bump
I don't fall very often now, but I also don't have a lot of stairs to climb constantly that are carpeted.
Slide on my tailbone? Were you being lazy or did you actually fall down SHar to the Rona. hahahaha I am an expert at falling down and it sounds like you did the later. I could show you how to fall down like a pro some day if you like. Im really good at it. ;D
Pouring down rain and freezing cold, I'm delivering newspapers to a set of apartments. One of the upstairs customer's paper didn't land where I wanted it to, so I went upstairs and moved it. Coming back down stairs, I slipped on the wet stairs and bounced to the bottom on my backside.
I just counted the ones in my house---15. Of course that would vary by design (slope) and height between floors. Also, from the internet: "Though codes vary, a good rule of thumb is that stairs must not be continuous for more than 12 vertical feet. At 12 feet, a landing must be introduced. With typical riser heights of 7"3/4 you typically see 16-18 "steps" in a flight of stairs."