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What is the most embarrassing thing that you have been through

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  • My DD came to Wickes with me when she was about three...and decided to make use of the 'facilities' in the show bathrooms when my back was turned. I was too embarrassed to say anything and legged it swiftly.
  • marisco_2
    marisco_2 Posts: 4,261 Forumite
    I was busy making dinner the other night. Wearing my swimming goggles as I had to chop some onions up. The pain is unbearable otherwise.

    Got interrupted creating my cullinary masterpiece by a knock on the door. There on the drive is a Jehovahs witness. My heart sinks but I smile nicely and say hello, he took one look at me, came over all worried, apologised and made a hasty retreat. I couldn't believe my flipping luck :j

    I close the door smugly thinking thank god for that, having a giggle to myself thinking he must have needed the loo or something. Then I clock myself in the hall mirror and realise I still have the swimming goggles on :eek:
    The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own, no apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
  • Mr_Toad
    Mr_Toad Posts: 2,462 Forumite
    sophief333 wrote: »
    This reminded me of a conversation I had with my mother when I was 3 or 4ish.

    Me: 'mummy, why do you have a hairy noo-noo?'

    Mum: 'to keep me warm.'

    Me: 'oh, I don't need that then because I wear knickers.'

    That reminds me of when my daughter was about 4. I was in the shower when her and her mum came into the bathroom.

    DD pointed at me and said "Why haven't I got one of those? I want one of those." Without thinking I said "It's because your a girl and I'm a boy but don't worry, when you're older you can have as many as you like"

    It was only a fortnight before I was able to eat solid food again :o
    One by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    Took my eldest who was 8 or 9 at the time to the fairground and went on one of those ski jump rides.
    Well it goes round and round and up or down with us both on it as the wife is looking on.
    The next thing it stops so i start trying to get out..
    The music has stopped and i can hear something being said on a mike but carry on trying to climb out..next thing i hear the wife shouting to me to get back in you idiot the ride has only stopped to change direction..
    She said she has never been so embarrassed in her life and knew straight away it had to be me they were on about..
    This is one of very very many.....i left our daughter at the doctors when she was a few months old and nearly got home before i had realised..

    I once hid behind a hedge to jump out of a mate as he walked along but i jumped out on a total stranger who run like the wind..
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • I was trying to ingratiate myself at a new job. The manager had a load of house brochures from the estate agents so we were all looking over them.

    I picked one up and screeched, "Look at this one! It's awful. You'd at least tidy up if you knew the estate agent was coming to do photos."

    Completely failing to interpret the stony silence from everybody in the room, I then went on to say......

    "And dear god, look at the massive picture of that kid above the fireplace! That is one UGLY child."

    Do I even need to type the ending to this story? :rotfl: After she had snatched the brochure of her house back off me, the penny dropped. I just walked out of the room - there was literally nothing I could say that would make that situation any better. Needless to say, I didn't stay in that job very long....
    "Most of the people ... were unhappy... Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." -- Douglas Adams
  • Kayalana99
    Kayalana99 Posts: 3,626 Forumite
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    Me and my Ex was on hoilday and I can't remeber why but we had to kill a few hours as we were waiting to go somewhere so ended up going round a free museum.

    We was sat down on a bench and I said I wanted to get a drink from downstairs and my Ex said he had a ribena in his bag and I said no you don't we drank them both really confused as I knew we had drank them so he picked up his bag and said Nu uh its here pointing to it through his bag he then opened the bag and in middle of a crowed museum pulled out a box of condoms......

    Needless to say we got out of thier ASAP..
    People don't know what they want until you show them.
  • Jox
    Jox Posts: 1,652 Forumite
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    I recently said to a bar man "Can you show me what kind of nuts you have please?" before cracking up and nearly dying of embarrassment!
  • Jox
    Jox Posts: 1,652 Forumite
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    Another one....a girl at work asked for tippex and I handed her a box of tampax, oh dear must clean my ears....
  • At an old friends a couple of years ago, we'd had a few drinks and I was going to the shops, she asked me if I would take her dog so it could have a little walk. When I got into the shop I saw a friend and was chatting for a while.

    Got back into the house and after about 5 mins my friend shouted, 'where's my dog' I had to run back to the shops where thankfully the poor dog was still tied to the railings.
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    Just remembered another... was in a pub earlier this year with work crowd (not a drunk story, got way too many of those to get started on).

    Chatting away to one bloke in particular (others there too though). Quite fancy him so was probably a little flirty and girlie. Twiddled my straw round in my glass against the icecubes when I got a bit overzealous and twiddled it a bit too hard only for one of the icecubes to make a bid for freedom right down my cleavage.

    Cue me with my hand down my top fishing around for a melting icecube in front of work bods...

    OMG ground please swallow me up...

    Jx
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
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