To think family should have shown concern?

[hustlepyramid]

Out for afternoon tea and somehow spilled hot tea on my hand.

I squealed and jumped up. A waitress came over as I was still crying out and took me to a sink where I could put cold water on my hand. I screamed several more times as it hurt.

When I got back my family were all just eating cake and chatting!

I sat down and said "I'm fine."

AIBU or could they have shown some concern?

Wtf are you on about user? Oh, yes, trying to be satirical. Nice one.

Yes, pax that's what I meant. My, what a subtle understanding of the world you have...

Case in point, I was warned, when I had my mirena coil fitted, that it might be painful, some women pass out etc. I was fine. But should I have reacted with scorn and undisguised contempt if another women told me that she (as many do) found it excruciating? According to some of you, I should relentlessly take the pisss out of any such woman...

Why are you comparing the mirena coil to this? They're completely different the majority of people would react the same to tea being spilt others would over egg it .. like OP

Why am I comparing it? To illustrate that people react differently to the same stimulus. Hth.

I've had three Mirena coils fitted. First two were painless. Third one hurt so much I yelped and gasped and swore. The same thing can hurt more or less at different times.I still think the OP was being overly dramatic though

Unless the OP/others has a issue with nocioception I doubt anyone not being dramatic would react in this way.

Fair enough alltouched.

We don't actually know how dramatic OP was - we didn't hear the sound effects! I often wonder how liberally people throw the word 'scream' around...

Some of the posters vociferously arguing with me just can't stand that they've been called out for their mob mentality bullying spree. Now that's childish...

Schadenfraude - I shall try your swear next time I hurt myself

Love a good swear in response to injury I do.

And there will be a next time, oh yes. I haven't stubbed my toe for a while, probably around a month so I'm due one.

My dad did the ignoring thing when my son spilt soup on himself at a museum restaurant- I grabbed a waitress and asked for the nearest cold tap (soup had been in one of those boilers 2 mins before) & she rushed us to a service station whilst I stripped his shirt off... son was upset (more that he lost some soup) but fine once we got the soup off... waitress got him a top from a supply in the museum (and then they washed and dried his top!!) and more soup.... we sit down and my dad had calmly sat through the whole thing eaten his butty....
It was weird