When someone is bleeding it's polite not to laugh...

[lemonbella]

So, I fell over in the street. Everyone stop laughing.

I fell over absolutely nothing, and I wasn't even distracted by a six foot picture of Kevin Pietersen. Personally, I blame an incredibly ill-placed cycle path.

Anyway so I tumble over, smack my knee, shoulder and head and am kinda dizzy. People laugh. I know it looked funny, but when someone is bleeding from their leg it would be polite to ask if they're okay, even if you collapse into fits of giggles in the middle.

I have *bruises*. I demand sympathy, and no laughter of any kind...

Comments

[kaj-22.livejournal.com]

::pets on head:: Aww, poor you.

::coughsniggercough::

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I heard that snigger!

[fringedweller.livejournal.com]

Did you fall? Did you fall and hit your head?

Sorry, have been on a West Wing kick recently and that one stuck.

How are you? Are you still dizzy? Dizzy isn't good. Witch hazel is good for bruises.

*sympathy*

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I did fall, and I did hurt my head.

It was actually far more comical than the glass door at the Tower of London.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

I was going to be hugely sympathetic but then you mocked the giant picture of Kevin Pietersen. You're getting nothing.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I wasn't mocking! I was saying it was a perfectly reasonable cause of falling over in public.

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

No laughing just lots of sympathy.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You're a proper friend.

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

Of course I expect the same level of sympathy the next time I do something to embarrass myself.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

*vows to remember*

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Ow. *I* would have come over and asked if you were okay. Probably. I'm a Londoner so I might have just averted my eyes politely. Clearly the laughing people weren't proper commuters.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

It was in the middle of Haringey, half the people averted their eyes and pretended nothing was happening like proper commuters (but I could *hear* them giggling in their heads), the other half were seventeen year old boys pretending they came from Brooklyn and so the laughing was loud and accompanied by an awful lot of phrases people of my sensitive dispoistion didn't understand.

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, *Haringey*. There you go.

And it's miserable, tripping like that -- what did you do to catch your head as well? I went through a phase of falling over -- ripped about three pairs of trousers one winter, and people were mostly nice, but sometimes yeah, I got that 'if you weren't so *stupid* you wouldn't fall over' vibe.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Really it was my own fault for going to Haringey.

I quite regularly trip and walk into things, I have a public embarassment gene, but this was pretty spectacular. The cycle path which was, inexplicably, an inch and a half below the level of the rest of the pavement took me by complete surprise.

[clandescent.livejournal.com]

Hee! *Ahem* I mean awww, that's terrible. I can't believe people just laughed at you and didn't ask if you were ok, that's mean. I might have not been able to hide my smirk but I would have checked you were ok first!

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I am the first to admit I must have looked hilarious, but I was injured!

Sympathy

[(Anonymous)]

Here you go, from a random lurker : Hope you're ok.

Re: Sympathy

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

See, sympathy from random passers-by that was all I was looking for!

Re: Sympathy

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

Pity they weren't passing by on the path though...

Re: Sympathy

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound like sympathy to me....

Re: Sympathy

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

I am sympathetic, honest.

Beside, you should have seen my spectacular fall off the kitchen step on thursday.

I have a spectactular purple bruise the size of my hand, with a red line across where I landed on the ledge that holds the door.

It's still sore.

[kitkat3979.livejournal.com]

Okay, I know the bruises and scrapes are probably gone by now, because I'm a bad, bad friend, but I'm sending you belated sympathy.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

*accepts belated sympathy*