Mortified - I fell on the way to get the bus this morning

[ididmybest]

Running for the bus to work, got to the bus and either I tripped or fainted - ended up on the ground between the bus and pavement.

The driver got out to help me, passenger was stifling a laugh but also helped. I’ve cut my knee and my thumb, have a thumping headache, sore all over and too bloody hot. I’ve had a migraine for 2 days now.

I work in healthcare so I’ll ask one of the nurses to dress my knee, it’s stopped bleeding and there’s nothing in it but I’m absolutely mortified. I’m dyspraxic, I used to do this all the time as a kid but never as an adult, I’m 33! I’m wearing a dress and control pants as well which doesn’t help, I’m sure everyone got a flash of them!

Oh dear that sort of thing really shakes you up.

Sorry about your dress but could I suggest rubbing Swarfega (traditional green stuff, red pot) on the stain before you wash it? Must go on dry to loosen the grease, then should rinse out. I've used this on many a cotton shirt sleeve.

So sorry this has happened OP. Try to treat yourself when you can. Just a nice bath or some nice tea and cake. Best wishes.

I have migraines and when im hit with one i pass out.

I'm sorry but I'm laughing so much reading that. God you poor thing but 😂😂

@ididmybest I hope you're feeling better now. It's horrible falling over. I have every sympathy with small children who do so frequently.

First you feel the pain of it, and worry that you've done something serious then once you've realised you're okay you feel stupid and embarrassed, especially if people are offering help or thinking you're more hurt than you are.

I did the same recently and sprained my ankle/cut my hands. I was just really glad no one other than my DH was there and he just got shouted at to leave me alone.

I have never understood why someone falling and hurting themselves is a source of amusement

The passenger was 'stifling a laugh'? Wow, what an absolute twat. You could have any medical condition, he has no idea. Even assuming you don't, and it was a pure random accident, what is funny about someone being potentially injured?

You have NOTHING to feel embarrassed about. Hope you're OK. x

I was going to suggest washing up liquid too.

I'm pretty good at going arse over tit due to dyspraxia. I can't even look around when I'm walking or I stumble over my own feet. Last one was slipping on wet grass, whilst with one of my sons and my ex. Felt like I hovered in the air for a minute before crashing down to my soft landing. Only a couple of bruises, including one on my arse.

I don't get embarrassed now, but I do take greater care as I have osteopenia and don't fancy breaking anything!

Oh you poor thing I hate falling over but I think the word you are looking for is morifted

I fell down the stairs at a kids party and cut my head really badly. I tried to ignore it, but the blood was running down the back of my head and I had to go to A&E! I was mortified. I’d had a couple of drinks so that didn’t help as everyone assumed I was pissed!

It’s a very natural, human reaction to laugh when someone falls over. It’s not nice, but many, many people are guilty of it. Nobody really knows why we do it, but it’s cross cultural. Sometimes people laugh when they’re nervous, or shocked, or don’t know what to do. I try not to judge people for it - and that includes when I’ve fallen over myself!

I once went arse over tit walking out of a fashionable hair salon in Spitalfields on a rainy day. Went from feeling a million dollars to feeling like an idiot. An idiot covered in dirty puddle water.

I fell ,dislocated & broke my shoulder...couldn't move for 45 mins. Was face down in ice. When I eventually sat up there were people filming me.
I'm probably on Tiktok telling them all to fuckoff

Hope you are ok op
As others have said treat yourself after work to maybe a long bath or cosying up with a book. It's horrible, I think to fall it's embarrassing and leaves you feeling tearful.

If you think you may have fainted I would go to the doctor.

@ididmybest echoing those who say you need to be checked by a nurse if you think you fainted

Sorry this happened to you. It is awful falling down. And some awful injuries. I now go very slowly and I don't care what anyone thinks of it. I know people think it's odd but who cares.

Poor you treat yourself to something nice for lunch cheer yourself up. I would need a nice big piece of cake after this awful morning xx

Yes. My first thought is always I hope they didn’t hurt themselves.

I believe that initial laughter is a shock response, people either laugh or shriek. If you go on laughing, of course, you are just horrid.

I’ve tripped and face planted many a time. The latest only being a few week’s ago when the rain made part of the pavement slippery. I pick myself up and act like nothing happened, even if my knees are bleeding. (I’ve still got a mark on my knee).

I fell at the train station a while ago, and my bag was open and all the contents fell out. Two very lovely men chased after my errant bottle of dry shampoo that rolled merrily along the platform in a bid for freedom. I also had a plastic false moustache that I think must have come from my daughter or a Christmas cracker or something that someone picked up for me and handed back without cracking a smile!! It's always embarrassing but almost everyone falls at some point. When I worked in a shop years ago at least three people walked straight into the glass doors thinking they were open. We had to put stickers on them in the end. Just look after yourself, guaranteed no one who saw it thought about it again. Whereas I will likely always be 'plastic false moustache' lady to someone.

This is brilliant advice 👏.
I once fell off a bus on my way to work . And was then on my knees looked around and a coworker drove past .

😂

Many years ago when I was in what would now be year 7, our class had one lesson a week taught by the headteacher. As he finished the lesson one day he somehow managed to fall over. We all laughed. Well I just laughed as everyone else did. But we were 11/12.

The headteacher, mindful of his loss of dignity in front of the class, no doubt, was visibly annoyed and told us you should never laugh at people falling over and how thoughtless it was. That was in about 1976, but it obviously sunk in with me!

But we WERE kids of 12, what is everybody else's excuse?

People are not laughing at the person who’s fallen over.They are laughing with shock, surprise, maybe the person let out a funny “whoop!”noise, pulled a funny face etc. It’s a split second thing. It’s not as if a crowd is gathering round and laughing and pointing.

Hope you are OK OP.