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Well I just made a massive tit of myself! Any similar stories to make me feel better?

72 replies

BigTit · 21/02/2021 17:14

I’ve taken up interval running during lockdown, albeit with very big intervals between walking and running Grin. I live in an area where the paths are made of small blocks with a lot of them raised up and they’re a bit of a trip hazard.

Anyway I was walking briskly towards a road crossing on my way to cross. Lots of people waiting for the lights (loads of people out walking now the weathers better) and I spotted a school mum on the other side of the road, with her DH and DC. She’s a bit of an alpha mum who looks down her nose at people, not very nice. I noticed she’d put on quite a bit of weight the last time I’d seen her. I used to be very overweight and have lost 5 stone over the last year. I knew I was looking pretty fit so was feeling good and a little bit smug.

Well just before I got to the crossing I fell over spectacularly almost face planting on the groundBlush. I’d tripped over a raised bit of the path, fell really heavily on my knees and was in agony. Luckily I was able to get straight up (wouldn’t have able to a while back!) to lots ooohhhhs. School mum asked me if was alright with a bit of a smirk on her face. I felt like a right tit and now probably won’t be running for a while Angry! If I hadn’t been looking at her I probably wouldn’t have tripped!

Now on sofa with ice on swollen bloody knees. Anyone else made a similar idiot of themselves to cheer me up!

OP posts:
Hawkmoth · 21/02/2021 17:22

If I fall over I like to stay down long enough to worry onlookers. They can't laugh at you if you're really injured...

RuledbyASD · 21/02/2021 17:24

@Hawkmoth

If I fall over I like to stay down long enough to worry onlookers. They can't laugh at you if you're really injured...
Love this!

Noted 🥸✍🏻👍🏻

sleepyhead · 21/02/2021 17:36

Hawkmoth has it - behaving like a premiership footballer clipped by an opponent in the box is the way to go if you trip in public.

School alpha mum sounds like a right knob.

Dinky2004 · 21/02/2021 17:37

Last week I went to my local shop, paths a lot of the way but some grass areas, saw a guy I have a crush on, we always say hello and smile at each other
He's on the other side of the road talking to someone and I walk across a small patch of grass and slip slide onto my ass.
Not even sure if he saw but I kept my head down and when I got home my coat was covered in mud

BalloonSlayer · 21/02/2021 17:39

My DCs always used to stay down exactly where they fell until I picked them up. They always looked like they were waiting for the scene of crime officer to put tape around their bodies.

Bearnecessity · 21/02/2021 17:47

I face planted spectacularly in Morrisons car park, it stopped traffic my mortified ds said get up mum, eventually I got up and carried on. People around me were open-mouthed, sort of stunned...it all happened so quick. My ds swears I was down there an age, not moving....he still says now but you just stayed there, you didn't move....I couldn't move I was shocked...so much for the sympathy....

catinbootsx · 21/02/2021 17:50

@BalloonSlayer

My DCs always used to stay down exactly where they fell until I picked them up. They always looked like they were waiting for the scene of crime officer to put tape around their bodies.
🤣🤣🤣

I love this did you train them especially?

Snowymcsnowsony · 21/02/2021 17:54

Took dhusky down the beach last year. Walking became fast. Dhusky took that as a cue to it becoming a run (ds takes her running)..
Resulted in 1 48 yo woman flat on her back in the sand.
Worse was ddog realised as the lead came to a halt and turned round, realised I wasn't in the upright position and ran head long onto my entire self... Covered and sand and dhusky hair isn't a good look...

Sgtmajormummy · 21/02/2021 18:01

I’ve told this story before on MN.

2 DC and I travelled by Ryanair with just hand luggage. We had to pick up the hire car and luckily the shuttle bus was waiting two lanes away outside the arrivals building.
I had two wheely suitcases, one in each hand, and said "Quick, follow me! We don't want to miss it!". But I didn't see the rubber lane divider on the road. I tripped, stumbled and did a 3-second faceplant, still holding a suitcase on the ground either side of me.
Blush
The people around were so kind and tried not to laugh. The kids were speechless in horror and fascination which soon turned to laughter. Swollen and bloody knees here, too.

BalloonSlayer · 21/02/2021 18:09

We were in Rome, in the Forum area which has marble pavements. Bit sloppy in flip flops. It was packed. Waiting to cross the road, standing on a slight slope, my feet just slid out from under me. I landed heavily on my arse and my feet went right up in the air as well, just like Charlie Chaplin.

There was a chorus of "ooooooh!" from the, oh, about five hundred fascinated spectators in the vicinity.

Penguin81 · 21/02/2021 18:20

I was at a bar, and went to ask for some batches (back in the day!)..kind of skidded to the bar area on my knees towards the bar.. I ran back to my seat!

orangenasturtium · 21/02/2021 18:20

I did the same, OP. Caught my heel in a broken paving slab... and threw myself at the feet of a rather surprised undergraduate leading a crocodile of sixth formers and their parents on a campus tour.

Penguin81 · 21/02/2021 18:20

*matches

SpiderinaWingMirror · 21/02/2021 18:31

My oldest friend walker smack into a tree in a London street. Nose first.
Broke her nose, 2 black eyes. All because she has a wandering eye

SpiderinaWingMirror · 21/02/2021 18:33

And I left a job interview by getting both heels caught on the door threshold so kinda jettisoned out of the door leavingboth shoes behind.

BrownFootStool · 21/02/2021 18:37

When I was 19 I was very drunk late and night and faceplanted directly into the kebab I'd just bought, in front of loads of people. With drunken dignity I got up, covered in kebab, and walked off with my headphones trailing along the ground behind me. Classy times!

NeedCoffeeToSurvive · 21/02/2021 18:39

I was leaving sainsburys after doing some shopping during the first lockdown, so lots of people queuing up outside the doors and all of them staring at the doors watching people come out so they'd know how many would be let in next.

The doors didn't open properly, instead of their usual parting speed, they slid open at an excruciatingly slow pace, my stopping speed didn't match that and face slammed into the glass. I wasn't injured, just embarrassed and shocked, must of had 20 people laughing at me, including myself.

When my sister in law went the next day they'd locked the doors open, so I assume it was a fault with the opening mechanism and a few other people probably had the same experience.

TheProvincialLady · 21/02/2021 18:39

I literally made a massive tit of myself. I was expressing milk on both sides at once when the doorbell rang. I detached myself, pulled my t shirt down and answered the door to the postman.

It was only when I saw his face that I realised my foot long nipples were virtually poking holes in my t shirt. Poor postman, he must have thought I was some sort of freak of nature.

Shodan · 21/02/2021 18:45

I went running with ds1 and ds2 just after the first lockdown. I was trotting along ok, feeling quite proud of myself because I could still see lanky runner ds1 in the near distance Grin.

I stepped on a small stone, turned my ankle and the (according to both dss) did a comedy fall, which involved flailing hands and windmilling arms.

I then compounded the problem by trying to save myself, only to fall again ( I don't know how).

Ended up on my hands and knees, with my not-inconsiderable arse facing all the traffic on the main road. Two (very much more competent) runners stopped to ask me if I was ok, with very concerned expressions.

Both dss hauled me up and did a creditable job of not laughing. But now they bring it up frequently...

Spied · 21/02/2021 18:46

A few years ago I walked into the window of a busy tanning salon I'd just started going to. I thought it was an the open door.
Two good-looking young men waiting for a booth jumped up and followed me along the road to check I was ok as I stumbled away dazed.
The week before I'd payed £50 for tanning credits but I never went back.

GigantosaurusRex · 21/02/2021 18:49

Spilt a jug of water over the desk at a University job interview, managed to get the job anyway then fell off my stool during a practical session with my students!

piglet81 · 21/02/2021 18:53

Falling over as an adult is so embarrassing! Hope your knees (and your pride) recover soon, OP! Flowers

Workinghardeveryday · 21/02/2021 18:58

A family member who is fitness fanatic went to gym in lunch hour, came home for shower and bite to eat, rushing around. Went to garage to collect her new car, talking to car dealer getting keys etc then felt something flutter to the floor. Was her panty liner, she put her knickers on inside out. The car man noticed, they both looked at the floor then looked at each other!! She put her foot on it like it didn’t exist and they carried on the conversation 😬😬😬

thefirstmrsrochester · 21/02/2021 18:59

Showing off to my kids on a walk round a reservoir, had to have a go on one of their micro scooters and try and outdo eldest DS. All fun and games till I ‘dismounted’ the scooter and it kept going at pace with me still holding on to it. Arse over tit, skinned face, knees and elbows, also broken glasses. Plenty fold folk rant to help after they broke free of their stunned disbelief at my stupidity. DD stood by hissing ‘mum, get up, everyone’s looking at you, you are an embarrassment’. And DH was doing the silent snigger like Mutley from the cartoon the bastard. My DS’s were almost crying out of concern god love them.

CantBeAssed · 21/02/2021 19:00

Its really shit when this happens when you are alone..i tend to bring someone with me so i can make a grab and bring them down with meGrin