Feeling Foolish

why do you feel foolish.Nothing to be ashamed .Many people have this episode No I do not feel foolish.I am an old man and this happens to old people

@jabouk It is extraordinarily embarrassing. I did it last year, went flat on my face and bounced straight up in complete denial that it ever happened. Later I discovered that my trousers were stuck to my bleeding knees and one thumb was so swollen that the skin was stretched tight over it and all the wrinkles were stretched out of it and it looked much younger than my other thumb. I should really have had it x-rayed but that would have meant an awful lot of fuss.My wife fell in a hotel last Sunday night, just hours before we were to get on the plane for Budapest. She hurt her foot very badly but soldiered on and hobbled very slowly around Budapest for three days in the snow. Now that we are home she's going to get it looked at.

Oh my, yes. I have done that far too many times. I remember tripping and falling down the stairs in high school. That's a really bad time to look foolish. I'm glad you are okay!

I'm always embarrassed when I fall (thankfully not recently). There was a time when my two co-workers and I were leaving work and I slipped and fell in the snow. I couldn't get up and was just spread on the ground. Both were laughing so hard they couldn't help me up. Eventually with their help I got back up but all these years later they still laugh about my falling. Even thinking about it now makes me giggle

Oh dear poor you glad it was not more serious.One of the wards I cover is an orthopaedic ward and there are always ladies in with fractured femurs etc. Poor things especially if they have dementia they are not even aware they have broken anything. They know something is not right but not what. I regularly fall over and yes with an audience present and we laugh it off but sometimes it blooming well hurts, My last big fall was in Italy in Herculaneum. What a complete and utter fool. I man nearly tripped I saved him from falling but went flying so it was me who ended up on the floor,.How embarrassing! .

I've come off my horse once or twice in the middle of a 1,000 acre paddock and immediately looked round to see if anyone saw me!

I hate if someone see me fall to its so embarassing. I fell today on ice covered with snow but I'm fine as well. Good thing neither of us was hurt.

I tripped the other day in my garden and yes I was glad my maids were around to pick me up. I realised I could not have done that on my own

yes @jaboUK it can feel more embarrassing than painful - glad you weren't hurt

When this happened to me I had the same reaction. Even before thinking "I hope nothing is broken" I though "I hope nobody is watching". I am glad it was nothing serious.

aw, healin' hugs comin' at'cha! yer liable to be really sore here'n a few days. please do take care. i'm prone to fallin' (mostly 'p stairs...) these days. fortunately, nobody comes 'round any longer so's there's ne'er 'n audience.

I feel embarrassed if I fall and don't get hurt, but not if it's a bad fall like I had a while back.

I think that we all would, but I have not lately. Glad you were not hurt any worse.

YES! I have to say " I was trying to do a skit and it worked" LOL. Not really I get up and act like nothing happened.

I had a very similar experience about 5 years ago in a very busy street in Bangkok, not my home country. I was walking and talking on the phone to my friend who was teaching me where to go exactly. Then I tripped and fell on my knees. Bruised ego hurt more than the graze on my knee lol! Nobody helped me up though so I just got up and walked again as if nothing happened. if it happened here in my country, I'm pretty sure strangers would gladly help me up. That's why I don't really like Thai people. They're rude to strangers.

First of all I hope you aren't feeling any ill effects today! Secondly, I have fell over a number of times while out walking the dog in the hills. My immediate reaction is to jump up and try to make it look like I intended falling in the first place. Of course this never works so I have to settle for hoping that nobody saw me!!!

Of course I feel foolish and embarrassed. I felt like an idiot when I skidded on my bicycle and bruised my knee, but healed up quickly. Glad you didn't do more damage to yourself.

Where there's blame there's a claim

Good to know you weren't hurt badly. And yeah I did fall in the middle of the road.........in the busy market area. Talk about being embarrassed. lol I had so many witnessing my fall.

I feel dam embaressed if I ever trip down in front of others. I can understand your case. Even I had fallen down once like this. It was such an embaressing moment that I didnt even enter in my class for a while