AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

redbusbeepbeep · 2025-08-13T18:58:40+00:00

I am quite honestly never going to get over this. It was my birthday yesterday and as my partner works away he arranged for something to be sent to the house, along with flowers and a helium balloon. A few weeks ago we had a leak from the bathroom, pretty bad, leaking down the walls and through our light sockets. The plumber came and fixed the leak, however 2 days later it’s leaking again, no where near as bad luckily as we caught it in time. He comes again and haven’t had an issue since. Today I’m sat having a coffee and I notice a patch around the same area. Furious I phone the plumber to tell him the problem STILL isn’t sorted and he needs to come back as soon as possible, as I’m meeting friends in another city at lunch time and I wouldn’t dare leave it like that. Plumber comes, it’s not a fucking leak, it’s the shadow from the helium balloon.

Phoebesparrow · 29/08/2025 07:35

I once ordered some bits from temu

For some reason I didn't get an email but that's happened before and the goods showed up,so I wasnt too worried

Days led into more days and no sign so I sent a snotty email and they answered saying they had no record of my order

I sent another snotty email and was waiting for a reply when the door went and there was my parcel

I'd ordered from temu and sent my snotty emails to aliexpress

daddysgirlnot · 28/08/2025 01:24

YANBU… I’m crying with laughter x

Katemax82 · 28/08/2025 00:43

Same landlord came to sort a blocked sink and immediately pulled one of my 3 year olds toys out from the plughole

Katemax82 · 28/08/2025 00:33

We called our landlord out because the fridge wasn't working...we hadn't switched on the big red switch on the wall for it...
As if that wasn't enough we did the exact same thing at our next house

raffegiraffe · 27/08/2025 21:34

Many years ago, got a letter back from my local council about my uni grant with a letter saying " thank you, but we don't require photographic identification for your application, with a semi nude photo of me paperclipped to it!!

Later worked out I must have sent the application off to them in an envelope I was using to store some photos my boyfriend had taken and not checked inside 😭

GreorgiePorgyPuddingandPie · 27/08/2025 15:48

@ConnieHeart and it's also just occurred to me - thank the lord that phone cameras & social media did not exist then! Now I want to curl up & die....

GreorgiePorgyPuddingandPie · 27/08/2025 15:43

ConnieHeart · 26/08/2025 19:18

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This reminds me of my dad, then aged 75, who would sometimes stop at a very nice picnic area for a quick drink of coffee out of his flask, on his way to visit me. One morning at around 10.30 at said picnic spot, he was having a nice rest & a coffee when another elderly gentleman strolled over to him. The conversation went a bit like this:
Man: good morning
Dad: good morning
Man: do you, you know, come here often then?
Dad: well, occasionally, I'm just on my way to see my daughter so thought I'd stop for a quick break
Man: are you looking for a bit of fun?
Dad: well I'm just....(the penny dropped & he couldn't get away fast enough!)
Apparently it's a well known spot for a bit of "dogging". I just didn't think that sort of thing happened at 10.30 in the morning! 🤣

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Omg, I hope there were no others lurking! I'd never heard of dogging all those years ago, maybe it wasn't a thing then 🤣🤣🤣

spiderlight · 26/08/2025 19:51

I once very nearly called out an electrician in a panic because all our sockets lost power and my work computer and router turned off. I had the presence of mind to go and look at the fuse box first, and found our wonderful old dog reversing out of the understairs cupboard, trying to pull out a bag of his old toys that he'd discovered in there, which he had somehow managed to get caught on the fuse for the plug sockets.

ConnieHeart · 26/08/2025 19:18

GreorgiePorgyPuddingandPie · 26/08/2025 18:25

Many years ago my bf at the time & I had nowhere to go for any alone time. As it was a nice summers day we drove to a very remote lane, thinking noone will ever go there midweek during the day. The lane we parked in was so tight you would have to slowly squeeze past sideways.
We were very engrossed, but thankfully were only topless. We came up for air & there in the distance was a jogger jogging away from our car! Can't articulate enough the embarrassment I felt 🙈🙈 still haunts me to this day. I have no idea if he'd squeezed past discreetly, or if he'd stood & watched for a while before continuing his run 🤣🤣

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This reminds me of my dad, then aged 75, who would sometimes stop at a very nice picnic area for a quick drink of coffee out of his flask, on his way to visit me. One morning at around 10.30 at said picnic spot, he was having a nice rest & a coffee when another elderly gentleman strolled over to him. The conversation went a bit like this:
Man: good morning
Dad: good morning
Man: do you, you know, come here often then?
Dad: well, occasionally, I'm just on my way to see my daughter so thought I'd stop for a quick break
Man: are you looking for a bit of fun?
Dad: well I'm just....(the penny dropped & he couldn't get away fast enough!)
Apparently it's a well known spot for a bit of "dogging". I just didn't think that sort of thing happened at 10.30 in the morning! 🤣

Glittertwins · 26/08/2025 18:58

I thought we’d had a leak from the roof, not long after we’d had the Velux windows resealed properly where there was a leak.
Turns out the wet marks on the low ceiling came from me throwing my freshly washed hair back into a towel and hit had hit the ceiling beam.
Just as well I did think to make small pencil marks around it which showed it vanishing before I actually found the roofer’s phone number…

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:57

Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!😂😂

TheTwattening · 26/08/2025 18:55

I had a dreadful panic as I opened my roof hatch and could see DAYLIGHT through the roof.

Long story short... It was actually light reflecting off the landing window.

LillyPJ · 26/08/2025 18:35

LoobieLooLoo · 26/08/2025 18:00

@NinaGeiger my first thought is he meant can you imitate the noise 🤣 and tbh I still don't understand what your mechanic meant instead!

He was asking if she could get the car to make the same noise again.

GreorgiePorgyPuddingandPie · 26/08/2025 18:25

Many years ago my bf at the time & I had nowhere to go for any alone time. As it was a nice summers day we drove to a very remote lane, thinking noone will ever go there midweek during the day. The lane we parked in was so tight you would have to slowly squeeze past sideways.
We were very engrossed, but thankfully were only topless. We came up for air & there in the distance was a jogger jogging away from our car! Can't articulate enough the embarrassment I felt 🙈🙈 still haunts me to this day. I have no idea if he'd squeezed past discreetly, or if he'd stood & watched for a while before continuing his run 🤣🤣

LoobieLooLoo · 26/08/2025 18:00

@NinaGeiger my first thought is he meant can you imitate the noise 🤣 and tbh I still don't understand what your mechanic meant instead!

Marmaladelover · 26/08/2025 17:44

My dad couldn't get the car radio to tune to any other station. Till i found there was a tape i had recorded of a radio program in the tape slot ( that I had given him and he had inserted himself then forgotten about )

Oldraver · 26/08/2025 17:26

Gliblet · 13/08/2025 20:15

Brilliant 😁

My DM once took her car back to the garage after a service and complained about it making a knocking noise, going on at some length about the fact it hadn't been doing it before the service and all she'd done since was a 12 mile round trip for groceries.

After the garage had removed the rogue tin of beans that was rolling around under the passenger seat she did apologise...

I had very similar, knocking noise when I hit 50 mph after having had the car serviced. Took it straight back went out with the mechanic to try and suss it

He heard the noise and pulled up, looked all around the car, the popped his head in and asked how long I'd had the aerial topper

They'd turned the stereo off and I forgot to put it back on, I usually had it quite loud so had never noticed Mickey's head walloping the roof of my car

Fleamaker · 26/08/2025 16:02

Notmyreality · 13/08/2025 21:53

Another one - was an open zoo type place with the kids. Walked past the giant tortoise enclosure which only had a low fence you could easily step over and was shocked to see a family of 5 calmly walking inside the enclosure toward the tortoises. I instantly got the rage and said loudly “What on earth do you think you are doing in there?!!”
Then I saw the Zoo Ranger behind them who was conducting their special guided tour.
They all looked at me with combination of surprise and bemusement and I mumbled some kind of apology and quickly made my exit!

That's really made me laugh 😂 😂

TellMeItsNotTrue · 26/08/2025 15:40

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 16:51

Just remembered a recent incident. I had to sit in a meeting at a bank to accompany a guy I work with. We walked into the meeting room with the bank manager, there were 2 seats at a desk which they sat at & the bank manager pointed to a chair for me that was like a metal camping chair fixed to the wall folded up. I opened it and sat on the seat. About 10 mins later the bank manager turned to look at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!!!" 🤣

This one gave me the biggest laugh out of the whole thread 🤣

SinnerBoy · 18/08/2025 05:53

MsAmerica · 16/08/2025 23:14

Not at all. I didn't even expect an answer - and still don't have one. And I try not to post hysterically.

Aah, bless you. Was your humourectomy elective, or did a doctor recommend it?

DeanStockwelll · 17/08/2025 23:53

BoudiccaRuled · 14/08/2025 10:19

You are clearly more comfortable with being an imbecile than the rest of us!

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Auroraloves · 17/08/2025 20:08

I wrote an angry email to B&Q telling them that the lawnmower I’d just purchased had come with no wheels. They were in the grass collecting bit. I

EmeraldShamrock000 · 17/08/2025 20:04

These tales are brilliant. 👏

pontivex · 17/08/2025 20:02

seasid · 15/08/2025 23:55

I once phoned the electrician as I had complete loss of electrics randomly. Sat hours waiting for them to arrive with not one bit of electric (I’m in a rural area so it’s essential for WiFi calling, data etc). Well they came and it turns out my suitcase I had put in the cupboard that morning had flicked the switch accidentally and I didn’t even know it was there 😂. Felt like a right idiot as the guy travelled for 2 hours just to toggle a switch back on, but I guess he got payment for it 🤣

I did the same. Come home to a dark house. Checked fuse board, all looked normal, all switches on. Called round loads of electricians, found one that answered who asked about the fuse board. I was all ‘yes of course that was the first thing I checked, I’m not an idiot’. He left his dinner to drive 40 minutes to see me went straight to the fuse board only to point at the switch that was down. Flicked it up and power restored.
How I didn’t see it I don’t know.

LillyPJ · 17/08/2025 11:16

Clawdy · 17/08/2025 08:35

My sister opened a bag of Tesco swingbin liners. She pulled the first one off the roll, and shook it, it was half the length she expected, so was the second one. She went back to Tesco to complain. The assistant took the bag, gave it a vigorous shake, and it was indeed the right length! They all just needed a proper shake.😁

The first time my parents bought plastic bags on a roll, they took them back to the shop to complain because they were faulty - it was just a long sheet of plastic. The assistant had to show them how to rub the top of each bag to open it.