This morning, it was pouring down here and so the floor in my local shop was a bit slippery. I walk with crutches due to a disability and I am unsteady on my feet at the best of times. Unfortunately for me, I went arse over tit. Falling over is usually a humiliating experience because I can't get myself up. As I fell, I caught the eye of a woman who bloody laughed at me. Who does that?! In the interests of full disclose, she did walk towards me, presumably to check I was ok, but by that time, someone had come to my aid.
I am still feeling sore, both physically and emotionally. I phoned my mum (even though I am 37 
) who thinks I'm being silly to feel angry, especially when two lovely men helped me up, found me a chair, got me a drink and then walked me to my cry.
AIBU to still feel mortified and angry or, in the words of Elsa, do I need to let it go?
AIBU?
To still be angry and embarrassed that this woman laughed at me?
thelouise · 05/01/2016 18:59
Oh gosh sorry to hear you fell :( could it be that she felt awkward/wanted to make you feel less embarrassed by "laughing along with you" and then realised you weren't laughing and felt like a prize nugget?
Or possibly she's just a dickhead. Either way YANBU to be hurt but some people are just like that :(
Hope you're feeling less sore soon and try to focus on the lovely people that helped 
I fell over at work, fell over a pile of baskets that hadn't been put away. They had to find it on the cctv to put it in the book and they said they couldn't stop watching it 
. Nobody asked how I was and now 2 months later my knee still isn't right.
i laugh too it's involuntary so i laugh and run away which kind of makes life worse really unfortunately my dd has inherited that trait she was two and an old lady slipped on the ice in front of us i managed to control it but she pised herself laughing and pointed at her saying again again (fucking teletubbies) i went a different way into town that day fortunately she had a lot of people looking after her
thelouise, horrible, even if she didn't mean it, I hope you're OK
That said there are clearly a lot of people who do laugh when something awful happens and I hate to say I'm one of them. I can still remember when we were at school and it was announced that a classmate had died very suddenly (we were 12 
so it was a HORRIFIC thing to happen) and I laughed
I still feel awful every time I think of it. I have no idea why it happened and I've rarely done it since, I think I've deliberately trained myself out of it as it was SO awful at that moment.
Even if a nervous reaction, she should have controlled herself
Its akin to a tic
Oh dear, I hope you are ok now I imagine it was a nervous thing, like others have said. My lovely friend is the same, she wishes so dearly that she wasn't but whenever something bad/shocking happens or when she hears bad news she giggles. I'm the total opposite and I end up in tears. A different friend dislocated her knee and everyone came to my aid, thinking it was me that was hurt, because I couldn't control my tears.
Try not to focus on her reaction. What the men did was lovely and the main thing is that there is not lasting physical damage to you, be kind to yourself.
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