AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

Did he charge for the call out? If so no need to be embarrassed. Probably the easiest pay check he’s ever received.

Years ago I gave away quite a lot of items on Freecycle.

One chap responded to everything I offered, asking if he could have it.

I noticed he had a very unsavoury email address that started with welshtherapist@

I replied rather snottily that I didn’t want him coming to my home and he wasn’t having anything and that I thought his email address was deeply unpleasant.

He wrote back that he was very sorry to have caused any offence and was puzzled as he had been a therapist in Wales for many years and had not upset anyone before.

I then realised with horror that I had been reading it as ‘welsh the rapist’!

Thanks for all these mortifying stories! I’m laughing at you all, and myself too.

I have learned, over the years, that the more assertive and self-righteous I am towards someone who has caused a problem, the more likely it is that I am mistaken and it was actually my fault. And I can’t usually creep silently away …

One of the great and awful truths of life.

I once got an electrician to rewire the switch for our bedroom light as it was in the off position when it was on and in the on position when it was off. I’m pretty sure I asked him why anyone would be that stupid to put it in that way. It turns out there was another switch behind the bedside table that was in the on position, resulting in the main one appearing to work the opposite way around. 🤦‍♀️

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🤣😂🤣 your all leaked out .

I called an emergency plumber out one Sunday morning because my heating boiler wouldn’t fire up. I had completely forgot I had turned it off for some unknown reason. The plumber had a good natured laugh at my expense and proceeded to service the boiler so that I got value for money for his, very expensive, out of hours call out charge.

I’m crying at this one 😂😂😂

My dh is fab with cars. Mine stunk of eggs. Dh started meticulously dismantling parts of my car.

Until he came to the hard boiled egg under the driver's seat..
Escaped from a recent picnic..

Not long after the belly button incident, both cats had watering eyes and endless sneezing. So again we took them into the vet. He was talking us through the medical possibilities and as an aside said 'it's not like you'll have been doing something silly like letting them be around while you do the plastering' . Yes, that's exactly what we had been doing.

I promise when have been much more responsible pet owners since

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I once called the police in the middle of the night because I thought there was someone in the house shining a red torch around. It was in fact the smoke alarm light and apparently it shining in the dark can make it seem to waver about, like an optical illusion. So embarrassed.

How can anyone possibly know if they get a new mole? I must have at least 100 all over. I don't remember if they were there before I became an adult or not.

My mum had complete hysterics because she noticed a terrible bruise on her leg. She hadn't banged her leg and was convinced it was some terrible affliction. She wanted my dad to take her to a and e immediately and when he wouldn't she rang the GP. She went upstairs to get changed and discovered it was a dirty mark on her tights.

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I was once rushed to hospital by my mum, pregnant, after electrocuting myself with a light switch.

Baby was fine but the nurse asked me if I had any exit wounds from the shock. She checked my hands and feet and was horrified at the size of the large circular mark left on the sole of my foot.

A doctor was brought to examine me.

It was a chocolate button I had stepped on.

DH and I had had our cst for about 3 months when we noticed a very concerning patch of missing fur. We dutifully took him off the the vet and spent a good 6 minutes rummaging about on his tummy to find this worrying patch. The vet looked at us pityingly and said 'that's his belly button'

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I’d feel stupid like oh no bet he thinks I’m a right well, let’s say silly billy 😆 but I wouldn’t class this as embarrassing tbh. Try being me I’ve been through some seriously cringey stuff that has been hard to get over!

I once called an emergency plumber as the pipes in my bathroom were vibrating badly even when not running water

i googled it and it was so ominous (something like water hammer or something silly sounding)

just before he arrived I noticed DH electric toothbrush was left on and leaning against the towel heater, causing the heater and all the pipes around it to vibrate

i switched it off and told the plumber I had somehow managed to resolve the issue myself

miraculously and kindly he never invoiced me!

That’s so funny OP. I had an appointment with the nurse yesterday and asked her if my skin swab result was back, they had tested for PVL. Instead of saying PVL I said VPL! She did laugh while my 13 year old daughter was wondering what we were laughing at.

This would so be me! I regularly mishear things and talk rubbish in response. Thought it was quite uncommon but you've made me feel I'm not alone 😂

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love posts like this really makes me lol
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Same 😳

That is funny 😂 I once took a chicken back to the shop complaining it was all bone, turned out I’d cooked it upside down 🤦‍♀️