Daft, silly or embarrassing things you have done?

meritaten

I have just remembered an incident way back in my Teen years which encompasses Daft Silly AND Embarrassing.

I had a hot date with this georgeous bloke from college and arranged to meet him in the pub (where I was a regular and he hadnt been there before).
I carefully got ready and did my makeup and decided to do my, very long, nails with a new nail varnish which was supposed to be 'touch dry in ten minutes'! (this was in the seventies). Vibrant Scarlet it was.

It was freezing cold so I put on my coat and tugged on my sheepskin mittens (all the rage then).
Got to the pub and oh joy - I could see him at the bar ordering a drink.
I happily trotted over to him and while greeting him pulled my mitts off, with difficulty! To my horror The nail varnish hadnt dried and was smeared all over my fingers and had clumps of sheeps wool sticking to it! He actually screamed and legged it!!!!!!!!! I looked like a bluddy werewolf! There was THAT moment of stunned surprise then the whole bar erupted in laughter! I was mortified and upset and burst into tears! The pub landlady took me upstairs and gave me tea, sympathy and a bottle of nail varnish remover! then persuaded me to come downstair and have reviving stiff drink!
That turned into a great evening - the ice had been broken and EVERYONE was having a laugh - it became a party and I had my drinks paid for all evening and met a lovely guy who took me home (mine not his)! we didnt go out for long - but we still class ourselves as friends!

and the wuss I was supposed to meet????????? I spent six months dodging him in college!

Bangton

I once walked through Leeds City Centre with my shoes on the wrong feet...I thought they felt uncomfortable! When I did look down and notice I was too embarrassed to do a quick change in case it drew attention so I walked the entire mile it takes to get to my car with my feet curving the wrong way.

Another shoe related issue: In my office we have secure wastebins which are locked apart from a little postbox in the top to slot private documents in. We were going out after work so I picked up my change of clothes (which were in a bag), my flip flops and some waste paper for the secure bin and headed for the toilet to change, planning to put the waste in the bin on the way past...except I didn't put the waste in...I slid my flip flops in instead! Cue me having to go to security and ask them to escort me upstairs with the key to the waste bin so I could retrieve my flip flops (why I didn't leave them I do not know - they were £3 from George!!)

My workmate once cascaded a business critical email around the office that stated 'Sorry for the incontinence' instead of inconvenience! Brilliant!!

yorkshire_laura

my aunty does daft things:

at a safari park pointing to a big log saying look at that rhino!

she once went out in one navy shoe and one black shoe

and most recently had bought a new jumper and wore it out, when she lifted her arm up we noticed it still had the security tag on and she hadn't noticed when she put it on!

*max*

Oh dear...just thought of another.

At work, when I was a PA, my boss was moving offices, so I had to carry boxes of files to the new office. My boss was helping, next to me, as I bent down to pick up a box and accidentally let out a noisy fart in a silent office.

I have NEVER wanted the earth to swallow me more than at that time.

ithinkyourcrazy

I have loads of silly stories to tell but can't think of any right now!
A few years ago I was at the supermarket with my mum, I was searching for her after splitting up to pay.
I found her stood at the customer service desk saying she had lost her reading classes and asking if she could leave her name and address in case they were found.
As we were walking out I asked what colour they were, she said blue. She promptly caught sight of herself with her blue reading glasses on the top of her head.
We didn't go back to Sainsburys for a while.
Loved all these stories. Some days I used to chuck the TV remote into my bag instead of my mobile phone, then pulling it out at lunch time to check my messages!

vesper

Think one of my worst was when I worked at a garden center and a lovely old couple asked if I could pick up and bag of compost and very kindly put it in their car. It was easter weekend and we were extremely busy but me being me agreed and lent down, instantly my trousers ripped right along my crotch from one side of the belt to the other revealing my underwear to the entire room and to my horror my boss (the owner) who was showing the mayor around. Luckily the whole place fell into hysterics. Think the worst bit was that I had to go in the office to get a spare pair of trousers, but there was none in my size just a giant pair that looked like clown pants on me that I had to spend the rest of the day in with them tied up at my waist with a bit of string. Not exactly very flattering. That memory hit me again the other day when I went across to ireland to visit a friend and she had another mate over that I recognised, turned out that he was one of the young sunday boys that had seen it all. Luckily for me he didn't recognise me.

My mate did the glasses thing the other week. I had stayed over the night and when we got up early the next morning (very early we were catching a flight) she was trying to take my glasses and wondered why her sight had gone so bad over night. She kept declaring that there was no way she could drive us to the airport as she couldn't see anymore, and wouldn't believe that they were mine. Worse thing was her glasses were sat on top of her head at the time!

geminilady

I put on my best dress to go to a party nipped to the loo and realised I still had my skirt on from earlier in the day.I had an evening job and used to meet my workmate in the canteen at home time,went in one night and he had his back to me,crept behind him and went boo.It was not my workmate!

Bluebell1000

I used to work on a site where you signed your keys out from security every day. One day on my way home I did the usual routine, swiped out, handed keys over, chatted to security guards, drove home. When I went to open the house door, I realised I'd managed to hand over my house keys instead of the work ones, and had to drive all the way back to work to get them. The security guards reminded me of that for several months afterwards!

CallaLily

sulkisu wrote: »

I was staying with a friend once. She went shopping and asked me to take a message if the phone rang while she was out. I forgot that it wasn't my phone and told the first two callers that they had the wrong number when they asked for her.

Glad it's not just me! . I once answered a phonecall from the hospital for my husband and told them they had the wrong number .
I realised quite quickly and tried to tell them but they had already hung up! Although in my defence they did ask for him by his 1st name and he's known by his middle name to everyone except official bodies.

Thankfully they did ring again a few days later and he answered the phone .

tesuhoha

I have a few minor ones

Carrying a bin bag out to the car to go to the tip I tripped over the step and fell headfirst into a flowerbed.

I was making a stir fry one day and could not work out where the smell of burning plastic was coming from. Then I noticed flames. My husband had left his glasses on the work surface next to the gas hob and they had caught fire. I put them under the tap and he still wears them.

I had a job interview coming up and did not have a suit and I said to my daughter, if I buy a new one and don't get the job then I would have wasted £50 or £60. She told me that lots of people buy suits for interviews and keep the labels on so they can take them back.

So that is what I did but all the candidates had a written test in a very hot room and I forgot about the labels and took the jacket off and hung it on the back of the chair in full view of the interviewer. I also forgot my coat and she had to run after me with it. This happened a second time after I left it in the interviewers office. Don't know how I managed to get the job but I kept the suit.

Bought a new set of knives and whilst my husband was talking about how sharp they were and could give someone a nasty cut, proceeded to wash them up and slice the top of my finger with the first knife I washed, this being the breadknife.

Went out to my car holding my separate car key and house key then realised I had the spare van key not the car key. Went back in to rectify this. On coming out I slammed the door behind me and realised I was holding the car and van key and had locked myself out.

Followed the sat nav the wrong way down a one way street.

In all the recent ice and snow was so worried about getting out of the snowed in carpark that I forgot to look behind me and reversed into the bumper of a colleague's 4 x 4. Heard a crunching noise and thought I was driving over ice. To hide my embarrassment I told him that my car had skidded on an icy patch. Luckily there was no damage to his car, only a scratch on mine.

When I was 17 my dad started to teach me to drive. The first time he took me out he decided I was driving too close to the cars parked on the road. He started yelling, grabbed the steering wheel and I scraped along about a dozen cars. Then he started yelling 'drive off, drive off!' I never got into a car with him again.

When I was younger a wasp chased me down the entire length of a train.

Recently I was on a shopping trip to the local centre. My phone was in my bag and locked but I noticed afterwards that somehow a row of 9s had been pressed and it had made an emergency call.