Your most embarrassing moment...?

[*pixachu*]

Remember a few years back we had *such fun* hearing about people's embarrassing moments 🙂

I think we need some new ones!

[wizilizi]

Another moment I'd rather forget was, leaving school late with 6th form friends we were walking along the top corridor, & I swung my very heavy briefcase (we had to cart most of our stuff around with us) forwards with a 'Whoo' & backwards with a 'hoo' because it was Friday

The empty corridor was not empty.  In his soft suede shoes, a Master was walking behind us & unfortunately the case made contact with him

Doubled over, he said nothing.  We said, genuinely sorry, are you ok? He waved us away.. ..

I didn't do it purposely, & I really really thought I was in for a detention

As the poor man had been unable to speak (& it was an accident) I escaped, but the memory feels hotly embarrassing

[stroppy*cow]

Just picture it, huge public meeting to review the work of the local council. All the disnataries, the mayor, mayoress, leader of the council, cabinat members, not to mention hundreds of members of the public.

As the vice-chair of the disabled people's diversity forum I had to report about the work that we had done over the previous year.

All was going well until I got really terrible violent muscle spasms, firstly the table next to me with the carafe of water went flying, then I propelled myself out of my wheelchair, landed face down on the floor and slid under the table ending up at the mayor's feet. At this point both arms and legs were still thrashing wildly and uncontrollably and continued to do so even after the paramedics arrived.

In the same vein, turned up at local A & E, not felling too well, knew I was at risk of an attack of the dreaded muscle spasms. Made it through the outer door, then the spasms struck. Catapulted myself out of the wheelchair, landed face down on the floor and slid head first into the reception desk. Knocked myself out and woke up 3 days later on a hospital ward.

[notgrumpyreally]

Another one that was a friend honestly. My best friend had an interview for a job she really wanted as a Chritmas buyer for a small chain of garden centres. The MD interviewed her and although very nervous she did well. Maybe the nerves had an effect but on getting back into her small car she had to release an awful lot of wind. She was just relieved when she spotted the MD at the side of her car motioning her to wind the window down to tell her she had the job. Apparently he took a full step back and spluttered.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Friend eh!                   

[rose2008-2008]

Probably one was when i was in my cleaning job one evening singing and dancing facing the mirror and my friend walked in to ask me something. I had my back to the door she came in as i was doing a twirl around at the time so did not see her!!!!. OOHHH um de dum de dum just finishing my toilets dum de dum!!!!!!. Ha ha ha ha. She smirked a little and went out!!!!!!!!!!!!. EMBARRASSING!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[rainydaywoman11]

I got my cami strap fankled with my wig when I was getting undressed for an ultrasound scan on Monday.

I have a really sore shoulder and can't life things over my head 2 handed as you do.

So there I am, stuck, I could not manage to move it, can't see because the front of the wig is glued on to my forehead and is now hanging down, had to call the young man.  I was in tears both because I was so embarrassed and because he was so kind iyywim.  He'll not forget me.

[ilove2patch]

CAROL!  Lovely to see you. Sorry you cried....it would have been funny if you had been well.

[rainydaywoman11]

Dear Maggie, at the end it was funny, by which time I was composed.  I said to the young man, you can tell your mates in the pub tonight about the old fart who got herself entangled in her own underwear!  He laughed and said 'I wish there were more people like you'   Oh, and the scan was of my heart, which is working perfectly - oh goody, lol.

[ilove2patch]

Well your heart is a pretty vital bit of kit isn't it. Glad it's still pumping away like a good'un. 

[petitecalicocat]

 Carol  good to know you never lose your sense of humour 

[myraandjim]

I went to a local garden centre to buy some of those balls made of fat for the birds but couldn't find any, so asked the young male assistant if he had fat balls? His face was a picture but it took me a few seconds to realise what I had said. I fled and never went back!

[captainbovine]

what does fankled mean Rainy? love the sound of it though.

[fishpieface]

Oh goodness, these have had me creased up.  Though not at the lack of

dignity Stroppy and Rainy must have felt, that must have been awful.  But

seeing the funny side afterwards I guess makes it easier to bear.

A few years back I was driving a coach tour to Cornwall and had mostly

elderly passengers.  On the way we stopped for a break at "The House of

Marbles", a place with glassblowing, gifts, fabulous cafe etc.  Many of

my passengers bought little bags of marbles for their grand-children.

Upon arrival at the hotel, one of the ladies dropped her bag of marbles

and they rolled out the door and under the coach.  Without a moments

thought as to what I was saying I said, "oh dear, don't lose your marbles!"

The hotel staff wondered why we all came in rolling about laughing and

it became the catchphrase for the tour!

[*pixachu*]

Lol.... but stroppy and rainy I can't laff at your misfortune!

I just remembered a funny phone conversation.... I was calling the garden centre as I had ordered a shed from them and hadn't heard when it would be delivered/erected...

So the guy asks me the full order and I said it was x shed and that I had paid for delivery and erection  

* ps that word may disappear as admin may deem inappropriate, but it is not rood it is just about getting my shed built/erected *

[mustard-tree]

At around 1145 last night I was watching a DVD when my intercom went and a voice asked if I was OK.  Took a while for it to register that it was the emergency system that had kicked in, but I didn't know why.

Than I saw this little black and white face looking at me sheepishly from on the radiator behind me.

Apparently Pusstat had been laying there and saw this red cord dangling

Need I say more.

[**towery**]

i sadly  howled at some of the stories here

i remember one of the previous threads  had  someone who fell over being trapped in a duffle coat

i still laugh when i think of it

[*pixachu*]

Towery that was my friend! The boob exposing one! 

For those who haven't heard this story.... she was  20ish at the time and was working in Liverpool. It was winter so she had her hands deep in her coat pockets to keep warm. As she was crossing the road her legs buckled beneath her, she fell over. She was stuck! Hands in pockets. lol

For what seemed like *forever* the drivers of the cars waiting at the lights just glared at her to move out of the way! 

I'm not sure how she eventually got up, but she left her shoe behind in the road and then had to retrieve it much to the annoyance of said drivers.

That friend was my best pal for years & would write to me about all the silly things that happened to her (when I lived abroad) or she would tell me on my trips home and we would be in hysterics about all this... 

[captainbovine]

why is someone else's misfortune so flippin' funny?

I think Stroppy is the winner without a doubt!!!!!!

[**streety**]

Oh.. Than you so much for this thread.  Some of these stories have had me crying with laughter this morning.
A real tonic.  I really needed that.
I'm trying to think of one to add.

There are masses of stories about my Mum bless her, but I don't have time to type it all right now.

[twishy123]

I've shared this one before on the sewing thread but seeing as I haven't a shread of pride left anyway I'll share it again.....

Went into A 'n' E to get Swishy daughter's injured toe sorted and after checking it out they found a bit of nail was still attached and needed removing here and then..(She'd managed to pull the rest of it off when she stubbed her toe)

okayyyyyyy  ( Swishy daughter was fine with this...Mum not so good)

'We'll just pop a little local in there and whip it out' 

 

I shouldn't have watched what they were doing...

Apparently I said ''Oh My'' (very sophisticated) and then went down faster than the Titanic ......

Not gracefully like the lady wot I is but quite spectacularly... managing to take out the dressings trolley at the same time ...

Swishy daughter says it was like watching those wild life programmes when the hippo collapses in slow motion but with car crash sound effects....I've gone right off her to be honest 

Anyhooo I woke up on the bed next to her,the staff were very nice,very smiley and giggly,I think they must have had a liquid lunch earlier...