To feel such a fool

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I've just fallen over. I was in the garden, stepped back and literally fell into the kitchen through the back door. Landed flat on my back. Feel such a fool and am a bit sore. Fortunately I had the sense to keep my head up so it didn't smash on the floor but I feel such an idiot.

suggestionsplease1 It's so true. As i sailed through the air coming off a horse about 10 years ago i had time to think:
i hope i don't break an arm I hope i don't hit my head If i do break an arm i wont be able to cook for the kids properly I'll have to have time off work and i can't afford it If i do break something how will i get back up to the road i wonder which way up i will be when i hit the .... thump!! The ground had arrived. I fell on my bum, braking my coccyx, and then bounced straight over onto my all fours. (and then the person running to help me fell flat on their face over a branch. we were both in pain and in fits of laughter).

Not long after I qualified I had a sheriff and jury trial as one of three and was so so nervous.

I was wearing a pale grey suit with skirt.

I went outside to ask my client something (outside smoking). I caught my gown on the door handle, and went flying, landing face down at his feet. All the jurors were arriving and saw me. I had to hurple back inside with two cut knees and a very bruised ego. All the while he was trying to help and or carry me.

Client was a fairly notorious wide boy and for years would joke about me falling at his feet and collapsing at the sight of him. Still makes me blush. The trial pled out thank god, don't think I could have faced that jury!

I'm a lab technician and wear a lab coat at work. I frequently crouch down to look in a cupboard, lift my heels as I do so, then as I stand up put my heels back down on the edge of my coat so I can't straighten up properly. Usually I catch myself, but a few months ago, before lockdown, I completely lost my balance and fell over backwards right in front of my colleague He didn't think it was funny, just rolled his eyes at me lying there like an upside down woodlouse, giggling

Omg remembered a worse incident..
The regular night club me and bff went to had been closed for a refurb for a few months. We eagerly queued up for The Grand Reopening ...
Except I hadn't anticipated steps as we got just inside. I fell upwards and grabbed the first thing to try and save myself...
The first thing being the waist of a lad young enough to be my ds...
His jeans dramatically fell to his ankles...
I wanted to die.

Early last pregnancy I suddenly got dizzy crossing the main crossing in the middle of bloody Holborn. Bounced down onto my knees and back up again. I don't know what was more bruised, my knees or my dignity. I had my coat with my Baby on Board badge on so, kindness of strangers, everyone stopped to help, but the lights had turned green again and I was so embarrassed I just said I was fine and hurried off like a loon.

I did enjoy the sick day I had afterwards when the dizziness didn't wear off though, so swings and roundabouts

I fell outside the bank in the middle of the busiest bloody street in my town. Slipped and my feet went backwards and I fell forwards.
All these people came running to make sure I was alright, I was mortified. I'd have rather they just pretending they didn't see me to be honest 😂
Scooped myself up and then had to stand in a queue in the stupid bank feeling my knees bleeding under my trousers 😂

You're only a fool if someone saw you ;-)

I will never ever forget the time I went to meet this guy for the first time...

I was wearing these boots (not even heeled!) That had those little hooks on the side for shoe laces. Walking with the new guy down the road and I must have been walking with my feet too close together, my left shoe laces got caught on my right shoe hooks... proper faceplant. Everything flew out my bag and I hit the deck so hard. Obviously I was mortified being with the new guy. He helped me up bless him, made sure I was ok. The worst part was I did it again 2 minutes later. Again proper faceplant I threw the boots away that day

I once slipped at the top of some steps in the pouring rain. I pitched forward and landed on my front and slid down the entire flight of steps like a slug on a luge

I fell off the pavement on holiday looking down the road for a shop we wanted to go to. Stone cold sober in case anyone asks, I broke my right knee and left foot. Going home on the plane was a nightmare.

I feel over in the middle of town one day. My boyfriend went to grab me and I was gone 😂 got up and bustled off, and then burst out crying. Think it was the shock.

I was walking downstairs yesterday in baggy pj trousers, and got worried that I would catch my foot in the opposite leg. I have thrown them away and changed for more of a slimmer leg style lol

Thank you everyone, you've made me feel so much better

I fell over backwards a few days ago while weeding. I can't get up unaided so I had to shuffle across gravel until I reached a large plant container and managed to hoik myself up. We live in a rural area so nobody saw me! The fall seemed to go in slow motion as others have said.

I once fell down an entire escalator. It wasn’t moving luckily but I literally went from the top to the bottom scraping my shin and splitting my skirt. I was a teenager and the friend I was with thought it was hilarious so I had to pretend I wasn’t in agony. I hope you feel better after your hot, sweet tea and resting on the sofa is definitely the best cure!

I slipped at the top of our stairs. I tobogganed feet first down screaming with every stair my bum hit. I remember thinking how super fast I was going and wondering what would happen once I reached the bottom.

My T-shirt rode up and I had carpet burns on my back

i felt a fool once... but he got pissed off and wouldn't let me have another one..

On my first day back at work from maternity leave I got off the bus and walked straight into a puddle of tomato soup (at least I hope that's what it was), went arse over tit and fell flat on my back in the middle of the city centre.

A cool hipster looking guy walked over my prone body and I laid there in shock until 2 kind NHS ladies came over to help me up.

They were so nice I started crying

Poor you, op. I once tripped over a door sill, sliding I gracefully across a pub floor - I was stone cold sober. I ended up face first, with my head between someone’s feet. I actually decided to lie there for a moment (not at all ashamed of making it clear that it hurt and that I was not just a massive prick).

I also fell over at school while persuading a kid to behave. I broke bones that time and the kid legged it. Was shaming.

I fall often. Have just remembered three more.

I fell over in June 2019 walking the dog and dislocated my shoulder and broke my arm..literally happened in seconds!! It was not embarrassing just bloody painful and life changing!! I am still traumatised and scared every time I go out for a walk it will happen again!!

My best friends hen do was around the corner.
Spa day/night.
Swimming, hot tub, massages, the absolute works!
What did I do?
I fell and badly grazed both knees on the way home from our local Co-Op the day before I had to spend all day in swimwear

Until her long line ran out

Done this a few times, compounded by holding a bag of poo, which broke all up my arm. I was horrified.

I used to fall over a lot, talking to a friend who has dyspraxia, she sounds similar to me. I now walk like an older person, super carefully. I was sick of thumping myself falling over my own feet, having to go to the walk in when I couldn’t walk for days/thought I’d broken something/needed antibiotics for yet another infection.

I'm currently laid up in an air cast boot, unable to weight bare due to fracturing two metatarsals after my last trip off the kerb a week ago.
My friends described it as me being there one minute and disappearing the next; like out of a comedy sketch.

My dignity made me get up and keep hobbling despite the pain, laughing it off and saying 'oh I just twisted my foot'.
Boom. Swollen, bruised and fractured.
I was completely sober too.

No fun!

I once fell forwards down a staircase in Kings Cross Station. Fortunately it was very early and there were no witnesses (though I’m sure someone was laughing at a security camera somewhere!).

I managed to fall onto my knees, upper body tipped backwards, as I slid down about 12 steps on my shins before managing to stop myself. In a skirt and heels.

I must have looked such a plonker. Shins were black and blue for weeks. Totally mortified.