TIFU by embarrassing myself on a date in the most cartoonish, impossible way possible

This happened a few years ago but the memory is still searingly fresh in my memory. This is the story of by far the most embarrassing first date I've ever had.

I'm a woman in my mid 20s and had met a guy on bumble who was really cute and funny. After talking over the app for about a week, we agreed to go on a date at the local fair that was going on over the weekend. This was your typical small town fair with carnival games, rides, an exorbitant amount of unhealthy food, and a lot of room to just walk around. A perfect first date I thought, what could go wrong?

Saturday comes along, and my date, lets just call him Jason picks me up around 8:30. We drive to the fair, and things start off a little awkwardly at first, but soon we're having a really good time, playing carnival games, laughing, and clicking as well as you could hope for a first date. Jason was energetic and funny, but didn't seem overly pushy. I might've finally found a good one I thought.

\*sigh\*

10:30 rolls around, and so far everything had been going perfectly. This is where the TIFU comes in.  Me and Jason had just gotten some ice cream and were aimlessly strolling through the main street of the fair. We're holding hands, joking about one thing or another when he points out a banana peel somebody had left on the pavement a head of us. "Watch out, don't wanna get hurt" he says jokingly. I giggle, thinking about the cartoons I had seen. Then it happens.

Now I should point something out about my footwear. I was wearing hightop converse, whose laces are notoriously long. This combined with my skinny feet, meant that even when double knotted, the laces still reached the ground.

Well at this fateful moment on this perfect first date, as I moved to walk around the banana peel my clumsy ass decided to step on one of the dangling laces of my converse, simultaneously untying it and sending me stumbling forward. Just as I almost regained my balance, my foot landed on the aforementioned banana peel, and in a moment of pure bugs bunny physics my leg shot out from under me and I slid into a painful split. I shrieked out in agony as Jason, rushed over to see if I was okay.

At this point a crowd formed around us. I looked absolutely ridiculous, writhing on the ground, with an half eaten ice cream cone smeared across my top, having just  tripped on my shoelaces and then slipped on a banana peel. People were trying to help but I could see many people including Jason trying desperately to hold back laughter( I don't blame them tbh). I was crying from a mix of pain and sheer embarrassment. In the end, Jason drove me to the hospital, where it turns out I had a grade 2 hamstring tear. He was super nice about everything and said we should go on another date when I was feeling better. Unfortunately, he ended up responding less and less and that second date never happened. lol. Thanks banana peel.

TLDR: Went to the fair and became the clown show

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