My friend was supposed to help me with this but I haven't heard from her in a while and don't want to press the issue as I fear she's got bored of me already, like so many others before her.. So I decided to try and handle this through writing instead.

Could you share your experiences of situations where some misfortune has struck you or you've done something 'embarrassing' and feared people would laugh at you and ridicule you, or turn on you, but at least one person hasn't and has actually been on your side?

For instance, let's say you fell on an icy road and instead of laughing at you, someone came over to ask if you were alright and helped you up? Something like that..