What are they thinking?

Have you ever hurt yourself and let out an audible little "ouch" or something only to have a family member from another room respond back with, "don't hurt yourself." As opposed to what, "try harder next time" or something to that affect? I mean really...what are they thinking!

This just gets me going at my house if someone makes that mistake with me after one of my own little oopsies. Then the lecture begins; 'So you are implying that the alternative is that I was trying to hurt myself and that I'm so prone to this behavior that you need to remind me that this shouldn't be my objective.' This is only level one of the lecture, because the recipient of said lecture almost always responds with a, "well, no." Which opens the door to level two.

Level two then goes on to point out the facts that somehow eluded the well-wisher which include, but are not limited to the following: I'm an adult, this is not the first time I've performed this task, If you had fixed it in the first place..., of course I wasn't TRYING to hurt myself--are you implying that I'm incompetent? and so on. Level two is usually accompanied by a louder version than level one as well.

The solution is simple; upon hearing someones mishap, respond rather with a question like, "do you need help" or " can I get you anything." Now you are part of the solution and not the problem.

Happy Holidays y'all!