You trip up in public...

[zacaron]

I cant even remember the last time I fell, stumble yes but I just keep walking.

 

[dooner11]

Me and my friends sometimes purposely trip in front of cheerleaders and other snotty girls at school and pretend we are embarassed and laugh at their stuck-up reactions. LOL

 

[MercenaryCanary]

I break into a run.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Seriously, I don't trip. I'm very balanced and agile. And light. I can't remember the last time I tripped and fell.

But, for the sake of the conversation, if such a thing happened, I suppose the first thing to do would be to get up. Then walk away, making sure to punch anyone who made something of it in the face. Or, in my case, have someone else punch them, so it actually hurt.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Stand right back up, do a pirouette and smile as I continue to walk.

I break into a run.

Against the ground? That would be mildly painful and majorly hilarious.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I straighten up and away quickly, head down, so as to avoid the stares.

I'm an sad little man.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

EDIT: I ask because today I saw a teenage girl trip up, scream and go stamp on where it happened. Interesting.

Ugh some people just piss the hell out of me. If someone would actually have that big of a reaction to a momentary accident that no one is even going to care about, you have no life.

It doesn't really matter if you trip in public. You messed up. That's what people do.

 

[Unknower]

I just tripped last week. We had just "decorated" our school's corridors with huge amounts of paper trash (newspapers shred to pieces). Tradition and stuff. Well, lots of paper eventually ended up in the stairs. The last step of the stairs was completely hidden. Me and one of my classmates were walking down the stairs when this conversation took place:

Me: These stairs might be a bit dangerous.
Classmate: Yeah, we'll clean them after --
Me: *Steps on the edge of the last step and lands on the floor*

I decided to rest there for a while. My leg hurt the rest of the day.

 

[barryween]

When I trip I useually kind of hop foward alittle to get back on balance, then look back and say "gosh darn it." then shake my head and walk away.

 

[Radelaide]

I fall up, down, over, across...

I am honestly that accident prone. I wake up going "Oooh, I found another one!", pointing to a spot on my body and finding a big blue bruise from SLEEPING.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

pop a portal on the ground and the other end on a high up building, fall through it, then fling myself into any witnesses.

 

[NeedAUserName]

This is how Mr. T does it, hence how everyone should do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahNfhUysehk

 

[vid20]

Tripping in public fairly pales in comparison to the dreaded "walk into a lamp-post"...
*shudder* Oh God, the memories.

I have never done the trip up in public and fully fall. But this I have done. Oh the horror. I still wait up some nights in a cold sweat.

 

[Joselyn]

That's right. You tripped on a bit of pavement and staggered a bit you handsome/beautiful fool! It's a pretty public place, daylight and you felt several heads swing to look at you. What do YOU do next?

Personally I tend to shoot an accusing glance at where I tripped, no idea why, then swear under my breath and shake my head.

Your turn!

EDIT: I ask because today I saw a teenage girl trip up, scream and go stamp on where it happened. Interesting.

Interesting thread...and your description of what you'd do should you have the misfortune of tripping in public made me burst out laughing!!!! It's uncannily like something I would do
in the same situation! Funny!

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

pop a portal on the ground and the other end on a high up building, fall through it, then fling myself into any witnesses.

Didn´t you mean to say "...then fling myself onto an old lady"?

 

[WolfThomas]

Don't do that much. But I do often do the vending machine headbutt. Reach down for item somehow hit head on the front coming up.

 

[atv_chic_18]

Let's see here...I've fallen up some stairs at a basketball game, slid down some stairs caked in ice and to my surprise nobody was watching on the last time. The basketball game, a few saw but they proceeded to watch the game over my fall. Hurrah!

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

After I fall I usually get up and hobble away with blood all down my shin.

I used to fall over all the time. It might have been those damn school shoes...

 

[Sennz0r]

I'd just laugh it off. Everyone can trip over something, nothing to be bothered by.