Banged my head on a shop window.

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It was a classy jewellery shop, too. I bent closer to look at a ring, and banged smashed my head against the glass. All the shop assistants - they were five of them! - and customers turned around to stare. I continued to peer at the rings as if I didn't have a care in the world.

Please let me know you've embarrassed yourselves too in public spaces, and not just me?

I tripped up the kerb rushing from the tube to work and fell right in front of a gorgeous man - on my knees with my head right in his crotch. I'm not sure which of us was more embarrassed! He did help me up and I ran away, despite the fact that both knees were badly grazed and bruised and very painful .

(Loving this thread.)

I love the stories of rearing up like an ape and entering the restaurant via the window. I'm going to have to stop reading now though as I'm trying and failing to do so sneakily at work.

I used to work at a base with the Royal Marines, I used to be quite fit at the time and went to the gym every lunch time with my friend. One day we were having a chat whilst on the running machine and as I was trying to run whilst looking at her I drifted over to the side and caught the outside edge of my trainer on the edge of the belt/bit that doesn't move.

This didn't immediately throw me to the ground (unfortunately) just knocked me off balance so for a few terrible seconds I instinctively flailed wildly trying to keep my balance before gravity won and I crashed down on to the belt and was fired off the end.

Tripped over a kerb while crossing the road. Unfortunately it was a pedestrian crossing at rush hour and there were four queues of traffic not to mention the school kids at the bus stop

I am well known in my family for getting locked in public toilets. The most recent was in an hotel in Tenerife. We were going for a meal and I popped to the toilets by the restaurant. The lock was broken and I couldn't get out. Luckily I had my mobile on me and I called my friend who got a waiter to come and release me. "This has happened to lots of people." (Why the hell didn't they fix it then? ) I caught the waiter laughing at me but unfortunately for him I speak Spanish so I gave him a death stare and had no more trouble!

I've done exactly what you did, OP, and got a very sore nose from it! Thankfully it was quite early on a Sunday, so DH was the only one to see it. To his credit, he did TRY not to laugh.

Recently I was on the bus, with DS2 in his buggy. I was sitting on one of the fold down seats in the disabled space. DS dropped a toy, so I leant forward to pick it up and give it back to him. Unfortunately I forgot that my seat would pop itself away when I took my weight off it, so when I leant back to sit back down, I simply slid down the side of the bus onto the floor quite a few people were trying to hide their amusement at first, but when I laughed out loud, they joined in! Even I could see that it was bloody funny

I was once walking out Liverpool Street station and there are those funny steps in front. So basically, I was checking bus times on my phone and managed to sprain my ankle going down the steps. I stood up, tried to walk off with dignity. Most of the people could barely hold their sniggering while I left, but I ended up on crutches for quite a few weeks

I'm actually crying with laughter reading this thread. I'm so glad I'm not the only klutz

My ex bought me a full length wool coat for winter.
There is a reason I didn't already have one.

Christmas shoppers in York, going about their festive business.
Me, new coat, feeling like I'm in a sleeping bag, fidgety and fussy.

Got to the top of the hill, tripped up, got tangled up in the shitty coat, fell over and rolled down the cobbled pavement like a huge indiana Jones boulder.
I actually knocked two other people over.

The streets were heaving and I just rolled.

On one of my first dates with dp, I smacked my head on the window of an Indian restaurant.....table for two, quite empty restaurant as it was early.....I was trying to look out of it and misjudged it! Couldn't stop laughing for ages.

These stories are actually making me cry laughing! 3 yo dd just asked me what I'm laughing at!

Fanny!! Didn't see yours babies I posted. That's hilarious!

These are so funny.

I was home alone and planing down the side of DSs room's door that kept getting stuck and thought I had it fixed so I stupidly closed it from inside his room only to realise that it was stuck.

When it sticks you can only open it from the outside by throwing your weight against it and pushing. No amount of pulling was going to open it. So I had to sit at the window and wait for a neighbour with a key to come out. I did yell a few times but felt awkward as there are lots of people about that I don't know. Finally my neighbour left to walk her dog and she came and "saved" me.

I was trying to exit a train once, in Glasgow. I was used to trains with buttons to press to open the doors, but this door had none. I started to get that panicky feeling of being trapped but I realised that I had to open the window, put my arm out, and open the door by the outside handle.

I reached my arm out and flailed around wildly for the handle, to no avail. I was really panicking now and I stuck my head out of the little window, stepping on the bottom of the door to get a bit of lift. I saw the handle, grasped it and tugged, and to my great relief, the door opened.

Unfortunately, my relief was short lived as I was now standing on a rapidly opening door, with my head and arm sticking out of the window, with nothing to stop me except the side of the train.

The door, my giant backpack and I described, as one, a perfect arc through the air and thudded, with a shriek, into the carriage wall. I just about managed to extract my head in time and ended up nose-to-metal with the train.

Then it was a simple matter of hopping down from the door and styling it out all the way down the platform. Except the episode gave me a fit of the giggles and even those who had not seen my beautiful descent were treated to a red faced me, cry-giggling, and snotting her way to the taxi rank.

Oh and I once cracked my coccyx falling down a flight of steps

I love these, I think the ones where the ops end up laughing themselves are great

Couple of years back I went to town and got my hair cut. Didn't really realise until I started to get off the chair that I had odd trainers on but in my defense the were both with with pink on the side... Only one was Nike tick and one was Adidas stripes

When I was 15 I was going to town on the bus, no seats so standing in the aisle at the front. Bus sharply turned a corner and I lost my balance on my stupidly high heeled boots and just fell over. I was lying on my side on the bus floor and I didn't know what to do. So I just lay there. I wondered if I could play dead. I just lay there until a very old man grabbed me and picked me up.

It was so dreadful, but like others here I am incredibly clumsy and the humiliation just goes on and on

Reading this thread aloud to DH and tears are dripping off my chin!

I say to DH: "I think I've found my people!" His reply? "Well, they had to keep them somewhere..."

Just this week I fell down the stairs in a shopping centre, literally clattering my way down and spilling the contents of my bags everywhere. A very sweet teenage boy handed my my box of tampons back, glowing like a sunburned tomato. I accepted and collected myself, only to walk into the window next to the automatic door immediately afterwards

Oh and no injury but we used to prop the window open at work with a box.

I was trying to open the window to release the box (without actually supporting said box) and it fell out the window and nearly hit someone

"Well, they had to keep them somewhere..."

Absolutely howling now..

FannyWisdom oh dear lord, your post had me roaring with laughter, my belly hurts from it!! I got an image in my head straight away god that was funny

QuimReaper I am crying here!!! bellowed like a buffalo, I did this same sort of thing yesterday, getting something out of the cupboard that was stuck ynked really hard and smashed my hand inbetween the door and shelf was effing and blinding after howling like a wolf, then was hopping round the room just like you.... god I can't breathe through laughing right now

I was on holiday in Spain with my parents and sister when I was about 16. We were staying in our friends apartment where most people ate Spanish. We went down to the pool with our loungers. Everyone settled down and I decided to recline my deckchair. It reclined so far back that it tipped upside down and i was sat there with my head on the floor and my feet in the air completely upside down. My family were too busy laughing to help me up and the lifeguard came running and shouting from the other side of the pool to help me. I tried to explain what had happened but he didn't speak a word of English and kind of rolled me out of the chair. I was mortified but crying with laughter.

A few weeks ago I was going to a shopping centre there's one of those moving walkways up to shopping level early so not many around I only went walking up on the one coming down almost fell over morto I think 2 people saw!

Im stupid