Donna - I feel your pain! Whenever I have had a fall from a bonehead move it has been in front of an audience. Talk about mortified!
The first time I ever had clipless pedals on my bike (then a mountain bike) I fell - and I hadn't even gotten ON the bike. My son and a friend of his were standing there, I clipped in on the right pedal and with my left foot on the ground, weighted the RIGHT pedal and fell! I had a wonderful chainring bite on my right calf for weeks (I claimed a bear bit me!).
Good luck & keep pedaling!
"When I'm on my bike I forget about things like age. I just have fun." Kathy Sessler
2006 Independent Fabrication Custom Ti Crown Jewel (Road, though she has been known to go just about anywhere)/Specialized Jett