Have you fallen on your ass, literally or figuratively lately, and why does it always happen to be in front of someone else?

We have really bad ice all over the place here. It rained for the entire day last week and then froze hard. I was dropping off some papers to a client this morning and as I stepped on his sidewalk, my foot hit the ice and I hit the sidewalk. His kids came running out to see if I was okay. Why can’t we ever find a nice private place to fall on our asses? If it’s on the job, on the sidewalk, in life, it always seems to happen in front of witnesses. Why is that?