While walking... and you suddenly fell... What do you do?...

Well, it has happened to me a lot of times but, there seems to be this odd instinct in me to avoid a nasty fall and recover quickly from what might have been a very embarrassing predicament. Like I did a mis-step and would surely fall off but, I just immediately recover by doing something 'fluid' if I may call it like that in which, in effect, the would be accident looks like something intentional. (-_-")

I jump up as fast as I can. Hurt or not, I jump up so quickly and hope and pray no one saw me. It is so embarassing. I am sure my face is very red.

I’ve got used to this by now…my ankles have a mind of their own and I really have lost count of times I have tripped and fell on the road. Its become a habit with me really so now I look down at the road while walking. It’s a very bad posture I know but better than a broken ankle LOL So used to tripping as I am, I don’t feel embarrassed any more (I used to), I just get up, rubbed the sore part, wait for sometime and then start walking again. I behave as if nothing happened and tripping is as normal as walking.

Hello aseretdd, This embarrassing experience happened to me about 15 years ago. I was 'catwalking' and out of sudden I flipped and fell down. My heels stuck in between the pavement and there was a crowd as it was nearby a bus stop. I stood up immediately and 'cat walked' again! I think my face was red that time but to save from the embarrassment, I just pretended that nothing happened and nobody saw anything!

When it happens to me, I usually laugh. I am such a clutz. I have a friend that has MS and she will sometimes fall. She gets so embarrassed and I feel bad for her embarrassment. She should try falling when she has no excuse! She tries to act like nothing happened either, but sometimes she has to wait for her body to start working again.

This happened to me a lot of times already.. hahahah. My boyfriend said that my foot is too slim so I fall a lot. hahaha... anyway, usually I just stand back up and continue walking like nothing happened. Though if it's in the stairs, well that's a different story. There was once, I fell like 4 steps on a stairs in a bus terminal. There were a lot of people, and I was so embarassed. I wasn't able to stand up right away cause it was very painful, and my legs were scraped and all.. anyway, there were 2 guys who helped me stand up, and after that, I pretended nothing really happened until I reached the bus and that's when I saw that my leg was actually bleeding. hehehe.

I will look at myself to see if I am injured. Then I will also look around to see if I become the attention of the crowd around. In case I found that everyone around is looking at me, I will just give them a mild smile, and walk steadily away. It's embarrassing to fell down. But it's not our fault, thus there is nothing we should feel shy about it.

Hi aseret -- I can think of at least six occasions of falling down while walking. Some of the falls were pretty disasterous. Once I broke my right arm, during another walk I fell and broke my left arm. On another walk I kissed the sidewalk and ended up with a bloody nose. On another bone breaking adventure I wasn't walking, but was wearing bellbottom pants. My foot got caught in a pantleg while I was walking down some stairs. I don't remember the details but I do recall I broke my left leg. A friend had thrown a Halloween party and part of the evening's fun was to go on a scavenger hunt. It was on this scavenger hunt that I was on the stairs and fell. Anyway, I'll try and keep this short, so I'll just say now when I walk I use my walker. I don't try to cover up my mishap and don't feel embarrassed by it. If anybody's laughing, I probably don't notice it since I already have a full plate dealing with whether I'm still in one piece

aseretdd I am so glad that only your pride was hurt. the last time I fell while walking along a sidewalk still haunts' me today. in fact because of that fall I can barely lift my left arm to waist height. I was on my way to eat breakfast out and really looking forward to it. but I went up from the sidewalk onto a greasy sloping area beside the cafe where someone had swept out greasy water from the kitchen. I tripped over my own foot and fell landing unfortunately on my left shoulder. when I tried to use my hands to get up I knew immediately something was really bad wrong. myleft arm would not lift me and my right one by itself could not get all my weight up. a number of people saw me fall, and just sit there cradling my throbbing arm.so someone called the paramedics,I went to the hospital, was xrayed, my shoulder bones were crushed so badly I had to have surgery to put in an artificial shoulder joint, so some falls are really costly. my insurance paid it, all 86 thousand dollars worth.I shudder to think whatwould have happened had I not had a really good gap insurance. wow.

haha i remember my friend's girlfriend.. they were both walking on the sidewalk.. then suddenly she disappeared then we saw her sitting with his butt on the ground haha... well we just laughed and got away... If i fell like that i would stand slowly and say CAN YOU DO THAT!? wahehehe

This is definitely the discussion for me! You see, I have had Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for 20 years. Since I can still walk (without a cane or anything like that), but also because I don't feel my legs much at all, I've had lots of falls over the years! If someone is near me, I just say something about being a little distracted, and go on! I just simply cannot let it "get to me"! Now, if I hurt myself, though, I would definitely not hesitate to ask for someone's hand to help.

I had a bad and very embarrassing experienced of being tripped in a sidewalk along the main road in our area. I was wearing my high heeled pointed shoes, rushing to get a cab when suddenly i fell down. My pointed heels got into the hole cover's handle. When i looked up, people were staring at me and a jogger asked me what happened and if i am ok. I laughed and laughed and laughed and they all laughed at me too. The jogger helped me get back my feet. I was so dirty then that i went home to change clothes. It was a great one funny -embarrassing moment of my life. I never ever wear the point high heeled shoes.

no matter how much it hurts, the first thing i do is stand up on my feet and pretend as though nothing has happened! wahaah!. :) It is my way of avoiding embarassment. wahah!

This happened to me a lot of time already, what i did mostly was just laugh (if im with my friends). Sometime i just stand up and walk away from where i tipped as fast as i can so those who saw me won't see my face.. It's kinda embarassing though, but it happens anyway.

When I was a child, or even if I were a teenager, my face would have turned red and I would have tried to run away as soon as possible. Now I'm an adult, and I'm much better at laughing at myself. So I would have said something even to myself if no one else was with me. I would have just looked around and if someone saw me said something like, "That's why they call me Grace!" It would help me save face. : )

Yup, I would quickly pick myself up, hoping no one notices, and walk away as fast as possible. I'm often worried that I break a bone or two, and need someone to help - then people would gather around to see! Now that would be embarrassing!

The cerebellum which is at the base of the brain controlls a lot of things including balance. It sends your brains messages to parts of the body, like your arms and when to lift your legs etc.. There is something wrong with mine and that's why I fall so much. Maybe you should get checked out. Whatever is wrong with me it's degenerative. So it started out I just fell a lot and got much worse.

Haha. This happened to me many times before. Well I just simply get up and smile. I don't look back. It's quite embarrassing but it happens to everyone so it's okay. It would be more embarrassing if one will cry after felling down. haha shadow41

i used to laugh about it.. or make fun of it... and screemed i found a big bill... but know i walk with my baby on my arms, and the last time i felt she was 4 month old... and i got very upset because nobody help me... i mean nothing happend thanks God, but what if??? it scares me people do not help each other on this situations.

Well,it happened to me a couple of times:( When it happened,what I cared was not if I got hurt,but if somesome caught it~~I stood up as soon as possible,and walked away swiftly,without looking at my leg~~Of course I would check it when i got to a place where there was nobody:)