What is the most embarrassing thing that you have been through

heretolearn_2

Hard to pick my number one embarrassing moment; I seem to get a lot of them!

Being walked through a busy shopping centre with a policewoman holding my arm has to be up there as a top one though. Everyone was staring at me, I was thinking they must all think I'm a shoplifter and just wanted to die. All that had happened was I'd fainted (early pregnancy) and she was walking me to the cab station to send me home but she wouldn't let go of my arm in case I keeled over again!

Or how about someone forcibly yanking open the door of a festival portaloo to reveal me inserting a tampon (foot up on side of loo and flashing my all) to the massive queue?

Or my skirt coming undone and falling off when I was standing on the bus...

NewKittenHelp

The two times that stick in my head (pun intended) were -

1. When I was a student I worked in a supermarket. Part of my job was to put the big boxes of bags behind each till, using a large trolley. Doing this, I managed to drop a box, trip up over my trolley, hurtle towards the fire escape and smack my head on the bar, opening it, sending the door flying into a poor woman struggling to control her shopping trolley, which flew into a car setting the alarm off and leaving a big scratch up the side.

2. We'd had a few problems with our landlord (who worked locally) letting himself into the house for a brew for his lunch, so one day when I was off uni, I was in the shower when I heard the front door slam. I knew everyone else was out and wasn't going to be back, so I was fuming. In a fit of anger I ran out of the shower, yanked the door open and went running up and then down stairs, where I was confronted with an estate agent and a group of students wanting to see the house. I shrieked, tripped and and knocked myself on the bannister. When I came too (still naked I'd like to add) the estate agent was faffing about over me and the sodding students had continued the viewing. Thankfully I was moved out a month later and didn't run into any of those students.

robpw2

reminds me of something that happened to me when i was younger , i was working in a holdiay park and had decided to invite people round to my apartment for drink ... i had started drinking before hand and when they arrived i apparently would pour them drinks then drink it my self ...(OOPS) but that wasnt the embarrasisng thing ,

the night after (Sober) and after work i walked into the night club and this lad who i had never seen before walked up to me and said hi how you feeling ? did you mean what you said last night .......I had no idea who or what he was on about apparently i had walked up to him and told him in no uncertain terms i was having him for christmas ..



another embarrassing ,moment i was in a clothes store trying on trousers it was a really hot day and as i took my shoes off i realised my feet really realy stank , as i walked out the assitant said to me we apoligiese about the smell seem we have an issue with the drains ....

mishmogs

I was about 14 (many years ago I can tell you) and I said to my mum 'can you pass me the durex please' and I meant to say duraglit (the brass cleaning stuff). Key mother smoldering looks, brother rolling about laughing and me with a red face!
Oh god was I in trouble after that... hangs head in shame.

Hezzawithkids

Been chortling away at this thread! :D Keep them coming while I add mine!

Many many years ago I worked as a telephonist/receptionist in a very busy central London office where the switchboard was one of thise upright-piano style affairs with plugs & wires going everywhere. No-one in the company had direct lines to the outside, they had to call me and ask me to dial the number for them or ask for an outside line. One morning I got to work and the switchboard was dead - no lights, no connections, nothing. I called BT (from a payphone) and in the 2 hours it took an engineer to arrive I had to fend off increasingly angry office workers who could make no contact with the outside world (this was way before mobile phones) while I tried to explain away the catastrophe that has befallen our ancient but beloved equipment. The BT engineer duly arrived and

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plugged in the switchboard at the mains. :o:o:o Apparently the cleaner has used the socket overnight for her hoover and hadn't replaced the plug. I had to keep a very low profile for the rest of the day......

A few years later my partner & I were flying back from the far east, a 16 hour overnight flight with a 4 hour stop-over in the Gulf. During the stopover we were allowed to disembark and visit the Duty Free mall. It was the middle of the night and I was exhausted, so was sloping around the counters half-heartedly and trying to contain my impatience to get home. I spotted something in one of the shops and raced over to my partner to tell him about it - getting his attention by grabbing his a**e. A total stranger turned and confronted me while my bemused OH - the same height and build and even wearing an almost identical leather jacket - looked on from a few feet away. :o:o:o

Decluttering

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

Many many years ago I worked as a telephonist/receptionist in a very busy central London office where the switchboard was one of thise upright-piano style affairs with plugs & wires going everywhere. No-one in the company had direct lines to the outside, they had to call me and ask me to dial the number for them or ask for an outside line. One morning I got to work and the switchboard was dead - no lights, no connections, nothing. I called BT (from a payphone) and in the 2 hours it took an engineer to arrive I had to fend off increasingly angry office workers who could make no contact with the outside world (this was way before mobile phones) while I tried to explain away the catastrophe that has befallen our ancient but beloved equipment. The BT engineer duly arrived and

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plugged in the switchboard at the mains. :o:o:o Apparently the cleaner has used the socket overnight for her hoover and hadn't replaced the plug. I had to keep a very low profile for the rest of the day......

Haha, that's very similar to my embarassing moment. I was working on Reception in an office where very important clients would be visiting daily. The other receptionist had warned me that some of the lights hadn't been working correctly so when I walked in and found the lights were off, I got on the phone right away to get it sorted ASAP. At my desk there was no natural light from windows or anything so I managed to fast track the request based on the fact that I was having to work from the light of my computer monitor (health and safety issue) and that it was a very important public area for the company.

I'd been in half an hour and my hair was all over the place, completely stressed. Then a colleague came in and flicked on the light switch. I called back the helpdesk a minute after they'd opened a case to update them to say it had miraculously been fixed :rotfl:

Denene

We use a piece of software in work that only allows a certain number of people to log on at one time. One day, we had reached the limit, so my manager was asking who was logged on. Cue me announcing to manager, colleagues and customers in a loud voice: "No, I'm not in HEAT at the moment."

bagby

Daughter at a festival with a friend. She had lost her sunglasses. Shortly after she saw a lad wearing them so her and friend challenged him but he denied it. Quite indignant she took them off his face and triumphantly walked off After checking them she realised hers had a scratch on them and these didn't but by this time they had lost the lad in the crowd so she scurried off sheepishly. She was really embarrassed.

mkaibear

Ubuntu (a distribution of Linux, a free Operating System) used to have as its default screensaver a variety of soft and hard-core !!!!!! images.

Of course, I didn't realise that when I installed it on my laptop, then left it on the living room table in my shared house.

...my housemates (doing a bible study with a bunch of people) were a tad nonplussed. No-one said anything, that was the weirdest thing, they just moved the laptop and left it pointing towards the wall, where I found it a couple of hours later.

mkaibear

On their honeymoon my cousin and his new wife were visiting a variety of places in Scotland (driving round, doing the tourist thing, etc) and after a nice day my cousin's wife spots a public WC and asks if they can stop so she can go to the loo.

She gets out and goes into the WC, and after a couple of minutes my cousin decides that he needs to pee as well so heads to the gents', does his business, and comes back out. He looks back at the car and his missus isn't there so he assumes she's gone for a #2 not a #1 and waits outside for her.

After five minutes or so he has got quite bored.

After ten minutes or so he's extremely bored.

He knows no-one has been or gone from the ladies' loo so he sticks his head round the door - there's only the one stall left so he thinks "aha, a chance to play a prank" - so he walks up to the loo door and starts scratching on it, up and down, with heavy breathing accompanying it.

...no reaction...

...so he starts growling in a raspy voice "I'm waiting for you... I'm waiting for you... I'm going to be here when you get out..."

...no reaction...

A little disappointed in his new missus he walks out of the ladies' to find (you've guessed it by now I'm sure) his missus standing by the car looking puzzled as to why he's just walked out of the ladies' loo.

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"GET IN THE CAR" he shouted and they roared off into the sunset.

...he still wonders if the woman ever came out of the loo.