Aged 15,
I got a decent mountain bike for my birthday, the bike I have to this day actually. It had toestraps on the pedals, as at the time basically your options were standard platform pedals, tiny little cleated ones for the fancy-shoed lycra-lovers amongst us and the halfway-house that was toestraps.

I barreled off on my first ride on it, with a mate and my brother in tow. I was loving the toestraps, they allowed me to vary which muscles I used, made the pedalling motion circular instead of stampy, and generally enabled me to go harder and faster for longer (ooo-er missus).

However, in my haste to get out there, I'd neglected a very minor detail. We pulled up to a set of traffic lights, I went to put my foot down to balance but alas the straps were too tight. My feet stayed bonded to the pedals and a few very long seconds passed in which I fell slowly to the left onto the pavement, felled like a mighty oak.
( mr_wicksy is.... old., Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:48, 2 replies)

I know that feeling..
Exactly the same thing happened to me the first time i wore toe straps, had a fair few spectators as well :-(
(bryo, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 19:07, closed)

if you only did it once
Then you are a WINNAR! I did it a couple of times with toe-clips in my youth, and over and over again with clip-ins, til I got sick of them and went back to clips. With those bugger I did it at traffic lights, in the middle of the road turning right, headfirst into my garage door, and most memorably, into a ditch full of nettles when exhausted at the top of a long climb. And the shoes made me look like Michael Jackson in space!
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:24, closed)