Stupid accident today- tell me about your to make me feel better!

[Meowsmol]

I was out today with the family for a day out to an aquarium then lunch.
Just before we got there i managed to fall due to uneven pavement.
My ankle turned and I feel like I've hopefully only badly sprained it.
I also managed to fall onto one knee and my chest.
I didn't even manage to put my hands down.
Now my ribs hurt and my ankle has doubled in size.
I hobbled round the aquarium and lunch.
But I feel so embarrassed I literally went splat on the pavement!!
What stupid accidents have you had?

I fell over in the middle of the road as I was trying to chase after some rubbish that came flying out of the boot when I opened it. I went down on both knees and when I got up had a hole in both knees of my work trousers and bloody grazed knees and looked just like an 7 year old school boy. To make it worse some teenagers had been walking nearby and came running over asking if I was alright and should they call someone and was I sure I was ok to walk home which was really embarrassing because 1 I was right outside my own house and also I feel I'm too young for teenagers to be worried about me, I think I would have felt better if they laughed.

Sorry you’ve hurt yourself. Hope your ankle isn’t broken and you heal soon.

Honestly, go and get that ankle looked at!

I was walking to a restaurant on holiday, slipped on a pavement, fell and broken mine. The doctors at the hospital kept asking me whether I was under an influence of drugs or alcohol - I honestly was not but I can really see why they would think that! It was 5pm, bright daylight and I made it as far as 10 metres from the hotel we were staying in…

I fell over once, or my feet went from under me on an icy pavement, and I landed right on my backside in front of a load of teenagers I worked with and was too stunned to get up.

I was only about four years older than them, didn't drive and had to get the same bus they all got on, and on this particular freezing day it was running late enough that I was already in danger of being a couple of minutes late for work if I didn't move quickly, but they had plenty of time to stop and laugh.

Where shall I begin?
Many years ago walking Bumbledog I ripped my arm open on a barbed wire fence. Dripped blood all way home. One of Wilf's autism phobias is blood. He opened the door, took one look at me, took Bumble off me and announced he didn't do blood and that I was to go to Auntie Carols. He then very firmly shut the front door behind him! I had to go to my friend to be patched up.
Six months later... Tearing around getting Wilfs suitcase ready for school in bare feet and fell over the end of the telescopic handle of the case.. A few minutes later my foot felt very sticky. I had sliced my second toe open on the handle. My Mum arrived twenty minutes later.. Wilf opened the door.. "Mumma not here Graggy, lots of blood, Mumma at Auntie Carols!" Cue Mum sprinting across the road to Carols to see what happened...
A year later while looking after some children after school I plunged my hand into a bowl of soapy washing up water forgetting that there was a Pampered Chef Corer and Segmenter in the bowl. I segmented my thumb... This time Carol had to come to me and patch me up... As you can guess Carol is an fabulous friend and neighbour who has excellent First Aid skills!!

I was coming out of the tesco petrol station shop, after cracking a joke with the guy behind the till

Walked out of the door and fell off of the pavement, flat on my face

There was a bus full of people watching as well. The guy in Tesco always gives me a weird look when he sees me now 😪

Plus, it was just before pick up. Had to pick up dd whilst very embarrassed

Definitely get the ankle looked at 🥺 xx

I also have an aquarium one, years ago I took my kiddos and my nephews to the aquarium, we went up one of the ramps to have a closer look…. I literally slipped and slid the whole way back down on my backside 🫣🤣 it’s still cringey thinking back… I got quite some looks lol…funnily enough all the kiddos remember it 🤣

I tripped over nothing in the middle of the town centre… literally nothing 🤣 I was with my sister at the time… people came over to check I was okay, my sister stood there crying with laughter 🤷‍♀️🤣

Ps I hope your ankle is okay now.

One Christmas I didn’t realise the sieve wasn’t under the bowl fully and I drained Brussels sprouts. Gave myself a second degree scald to the foot. Screamed, merrily carried on (drink had been taken) and turned up at A+E the next day. Had to wear DH’s left shoe for 3 weeks until the dressing came off…

I managed to sprain my ankle one ruptured one partially ruptured on my completely flat driveway the day before I was supposed to return from mat leave.

I am was SO cross with myself

Also managed to drop a cereal bowl and get porridge all over kitchen (inc inside fridge and oven :( ) annnnnd then BROKE my big toe
Bad start to a sunday

I have done a fun run with my three year old today and managed to trip over on some cobbles (who organises a kids run on cobble!!!) and pulled my DS down with me too. It was so embarrassing and I have two sore knees and a big graze on my wrist… luckily DS wasn’t hurt. We managed to finish the race though!

Years ago, I was getting my shopping out of the boot and banged my head on the open boot lock. I carried on emptying the shopping and when I got inside the house, my 8 yr old DD screamed and ran away. I had blood pouring out of my head and all down my face.
I had to have stitches and was explaining to the nurse how stupid I felt, she told me not to worry - they had 3 or 4 equally stupid people in every week with the same accident.
I have always made sure my boot is well and truly open before I go near it since then!

Get it checked. Sweet young doctor in A and E told me there wasn't any break. 5 days later experienced doc came back from a bank holiday weekend and I was sent for. He had more experience at reading an X ray than she did.

Get it checked. Mine was an inch of mud at a wildlife park.

I was rushing to clinic (retired midwife). I was in uniform and for some reason had chosen to wear a dress instead of my usual tunic/ trousers. I fell over and somehow got myself wedged between my car and the kerb. All I could see from my prone position was a row of pregnancy bumps and I couldn't get up. All my patients were trying to get me up - someone was trying to call an ambulance. I was mortified. I'm sure they all saw my knickers. 🤦‍♀️😳.

I did have to go to a&e but did manage to stop being taken by ambulance.

Best to get your ankle checked out in case its not just a sprain

In the winter I was shovelling snow so I could get the car out of the driveway to get to work, and didn't realise that underneath the snow was a layer of ice. Slipped on the ice, both feet went up in the air and I went down landing on my back, like the classic slipping on a banana peel gag. Had to go to the hospital for x rays after I went to work and realised the pain was getting worse and worse - that's when I realised I'm not young any more and can't just get back up after a fall like that!

Mind you, getting it checked nowadays probably means having to live in A and E for 3 nights, so take supplies.

Where we are 111 can get you an appointment in Urgent Care so at least you have an appointment to be seen, often have to wait for the X ray machine to be available though.

I do this all the time! My ankles are quite floppy. Did it in turkey six years ago and again a month ago a block from home.

I fell twice within a week.

First fall, up outdoor steps on a cruise ship full of much older people who managed the steps fine! Hurt my knee but had to pretend I was fine because everyone was watching!

Then I tripped up some concrete steps, stubbed my toe so badly I thought I’d pass out, destroyed my pedicure and I still have a blood red toenail🫣 I hobbled back to the cruise ship and for the rest of our holiday.

No alcohol involved!

Falling is horrible, definitely worth getting your ankle checked out.

I was looking for some Christmas wrapping paper on the top shelf inside the wardrobe.
I slipped off the stool I was standing on and it flipped over and hit my wrist. I went to hospital and they said it was broken, I had to wear a sling and was going on holiday the following day.

I ride a motorcycle. Motorcycle boots don't have laces. I was too tight to buy proper boots as my converse all stars were perfectly fine. Apart from having laces, which, as it turns out, can get caught up in the foot pegs of the aforementioned motorcycle.

I found out that mine had done exactly this when I filtered to the front of the queue at the traffic lights. And couldn't put my foot down. Over I went with leg trapped under motorcycle.

I can add that converse all stars are not as protective as proper bike boots.

I’m dyspraxic. Most days I have ridiculous accidents which usually involve concussions. I’m really good at it.

Get checked.

Oh you poor thing. we have all done things like this.

Kind of along similar lines. Me and my friend who is blind got into a lift and my friend asked ‘how many’ (referring to how many people are in the lift) I said 2. Then my friend let off the loudest fart you’ve ever heard and said ‘I’m so sorry I’ve been holding it in for ages’ (she has stomach issues which she does take medication for) Before I could say anything one of the lads in the lift said ‘I thought the lift was breaking’ and with that we all started laughing.

my friend was mortified. When she asked how many and I said 2 she thought I meant me and her not me and her plus 2. From then on I always say me and you plus ‘x’ .

I used my hand to clear a jam in our food blender without switching it off first…

It wasn’t pretty,

Left hotel on last night of my South of France holiday last year in new pair of trainers and it had been raining. Merrily walking along and was walking past a very posh full restaurant with people eating outside, slid and went right over flat on my face. Glasses broke and cut into my eyebrow. Cue huge loads of blood pouring into my eye. Was with my grown up dc who had to help me back to the hotel. Had to wear my prescription sunglasses on the way home even on the plane. Had a massive great multicoloured black eye.

Another time came out of Pets at Home carrying two large packets of wood shavings and two of hay in my arms which were stretched out in front of me zombie style; couldn't really see. Went totally splat on the ground of the busy car park with nothing to break my fall. Felt like a total Charlie and couldn't bear to look to see if anyone noticed me. 😑

Hope you feel better soon op and, yes , get checked out!

I never understand why people feel embarrassed when they fall down, or when people laughed at them. It's horrible.

Mine didn't end in injury but was truly ridiculous. D dog ( RIP my beautiful darling) rolled in fox poo and needed an immediate hosing down in shower on return home.

I didn't stop to take off my hiking boots but rushed upstairs. I have very large feet and take men's sizes in boots. The bathroom was long and narrow.

I knelt down on the floor, got DDog in the bath, showered the mess off her.

Only when I had finished did I realise that both my feet were firmly jammed with the heels of my boots under the bottom edge of the radiator. I simply could not move.

By now ddog had jumped out of the bath and was cavorting around shaking herself dry and laughing at me. I freed myself eventually but it seemed to take forever.