What is the most embarrassing thing that you have been through

alwaysbrassic

once went shopping with my sister, she told me we needed to visit a certain ladies shop to return a 'toy' which had stopped working.

Took the thing back, all well and good until the sales assistant turns to us with a wink and says "hope we didnt get you two ladies out of bed early this morning to return this"!

Met by replies of "Eeewww! She's my sister!!" from me and my sister. I dont know who was more embarrassed, us or the sales assistant!

make_me_wise

Has anyone ever been set up by their colleagues with a 'Mr Nasty' joke phone call? I was in the staffroom and one of the clowns I work with told me there was a call for me from one of the parents of a kid in my class. So I took it. The minute you speak, this recording on the other end starts going barmy. I didn't retaliate which is nothing short of incredible for me, as normally I wouldn't stand for it, but thinking it was a parent I buttoned it. After taking loads of 'fake abuse' I apparently got very high pitched and a bit snotty and told him to come in and talk to me face to face. Turned round to see my colleagues barely able to contain themselves, flaming !!!!!!!s. Have never lived that one down.

ali-t

Most of mine have involved falling over in stupid places.

The most embarrassing one happened years ago at uni. I was in the library getting books out and walked from the signing out desk to the revolving exit doors. The library set up was over 4 floors, each with a viewing area that looked onto the inner entrance so every noise in the entrance bit echoes. As I was walking to the revolving doors I tripped over the rubber backed rug on the floor which wasn't sitting flat and fell over. I was carrying a pile of books that made a huge noise as they hit the floor at the same time as I did. I fell half into the revolving doors so not only did lots of people from the 4 floors of the library rush over to the viewing bit for a nosey, no-one could get in or out the library as I was lying sprawled in the doors wishing the ground would swallow me up.

I had a mortifying experience as a child where the big door handle in woolies came off the door when I pushed it. My mum made me go up to the cash desk and say 'excuse me this came off in my hand'. As a small child that was excruciating, I would have happily left it on the floor beside the door and run away.

I also had a recent one that made me cringe but just my usual standard. I went to view an expensive flat with a friend. It was a showhome and very expensive and in my view not worth the money. We then went to look at a house and I said to the show home woman (who was the developers wife) that it was much nicer and better value for money than the flat I had just seen. It was only at that moment when I saw her face that I realised that her husband was also the developer for the flat I had just slagged off. Doh!

make_me_wise

Oh ali-t I feel your pain with having embarassement from falling over. During my uni days I would often let my hair down at weekends and go a bit wild. One memorably drunken evening ended with me lying down on the pavement, clinging to the kerb and allegedly shouting out at the top of my lungs 'Help I am about to fall off the face of the earth'. Dont know about fall off, I was hit with what could be described as a tsunami when some !!!! in a mini drove past and soaked me by going through a huge puddle. That sobered me up damm fast I can tell you and next morning oddly enough I had no hangover! Result They do say if you drink a pint of water it keeps hangovers at bay.

ali-t

lol make me wise, I have no excuse as I am always sober when it happens.

I recently fell down a large pothole when I was out for lunch during a work development event. It was for bringing together different agencies for one project and we went for a bonding lunch to a golf club. I was too busy ogling some hot young golfer and didn't notice a giant pothole and fell down it. One minute I am chatting away with one eye on the golfers and next I am checking chuckies on the ground with some of my colleagues rolling about laughing, others pretending to be shocked and another couple trying to haul me out the hole in the ground. Oooh the shame of it.

Violetta_2

We were on holiday in France last year, had a lovely day wandering around Reims, walked past a man handing out free newspapers. Thanked him in my broken French, didn't understand what he said so smiled & walked on, got a few yards before he stopped me again then the penny dropped I stolen a paper off the French equivalent of a big issue seller!!

danlojo

My friend was in a supermarket cafe and collected her kitkat and coffee and sat down. After drinking half of the coffee she needed the loo so asked a woman who had just sat down with a cream cake and coffee to watch her table.

When my friend returned from the toilet she sat down to find her kitkat was gone and the woman who had been watching her table seemed to be smirking at her. Absolutely fuming my friend finished her coffee but was seething inside.

The woman got up to get a napkin so my friend thought, 'cheeky cow I'll show you', so she went to the womans table took a huge bite out of her cream cake and left the cafe.

As she neared her car she put her hand in her pocket to get her car keys and felt her kitkat in there.


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sashadesade

We live in a town that has a reputation for being a bit posh. True, there are a lot of big expensive houses nearby, but while our street is nice enough it's certainly nothing fancy.

We had a plumber over to fit a shower for us and he'd just finished the job and was settling up with my husband. At that point he got a call from his mate on his mobile and put it on speaker. He told him 'I've just finished a job in [our town], I'll be leaving in a minute', to which his mate replied '[our town]? I hope you're charging them extra!'

Just a little bit awkward for the poor guy... :rotfl:

*Louise*

Okay, have had a good chuckle at some of these stories so it's only fair I share mine...

I had just given birth to DS1 and my family had been visiting us in hospital. I decided to walk down to the bottom corridor with them to see them out when they were leaving.

However.......no one had told me that the babies had security tags attached and as soon as I passed a door downstairs all the security alarms started going off and the doors secured, I had shut down the whole damn maternity unit*....I was mortified :o:o



*If the lady who had to wait outside for 15 minutes in labour while the security checks were done ever reads this...I am sooo sorry!

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I called a plumber not long ago because there was no hot water in the bathroom tap. I spent a few minutes explaining that I had left the tap on for over 15 mins and the water was still cold.
It turns out I was using the cold water tap :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(PS in my defence I am pregnant and I have "nappy brain" )
Talk about being embarassed!