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@plurabelle
I've just started riding clipless, and I was fine the first time, but I went out this morning and...ugh. I was pulling up to pop in to a shop and I just didn't do the motion in time: the mesmerically slow submission to gravity inevitably followed. It was absolutely pathetic - I was on the floor, still clipped in, while loads of kindly passers by asked me if I was ok. 'I'm fine! Fine!' I kept saying, with what I hope what an adequately suppressed note of hysteria, but I couldn't move as I couldn't unclip with the bike on top of me. They must have thought I was mental.
I don't think it's anything to do with co-ordination, btw, though of course I would say that now. It's just misremembering for that one split second, until it becomes (I assume) unconscious habit. I'm used to stopping then dismounting my feet, so to speak, so it's just harder to remember you need to unclip before you come to a complete stop.