AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

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.😁

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

That’s hilarious. I don’t know how old you are but the older I get (now 56) the more I value having anecdotes like this to tell people! Comparing embarrassing stories seems to become more of a bonding thing as you get older. In fact Dawn French recently wrote an entire book and stage show about embracing and owning this stuff - called “The Twat Files” and “Dawn French is a Massive Twat” - so you’re in good company!

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 🤣

Just remembered one Summer when my glasses' lenses looked very odd with stripes on them. Took me a while to realise that they were photochromatic and there had been something across them on the coffee table in the sun so they'd had darkened unevenly.

Oh give it a rest fun killer.

OP that’s brilliant 😂 my mum once called the builder back because there was black dirt all along the inside of her extension ceiling edge. It was a shadow!

I was up on a chair in the kitchen trying to find where the water was dripping from around the ceiling light. After an embarrassing amount of time I realised it was my freshly washed hair dripping down me 🫢😳

I would have loved to have been there, op. Brilliant.

Take heart. You have made many people laugh!

It's a shame you can't post a link to that video here! I loved the way you wrote about it too - thanks for the laugh. 😆

My DC & I walked to the local shops to buy a gift for my older DC, leaving DH at home as he wanted do some gardening.
We found a possible gift but I wanted to see what DH thought so I FaceTimed him.
He took a while to answer his phone- when he did he was out of breath and his shorts were around his knees, the phone was waving about.

Apparently he had gone into the shed to get the lawnmower and a wasp had followed him inside (he hates wasps). At that point I called him, he felt the wasp fly up the leg of his shorts so he frantically unzipped them to get the wasp out and ran out of the shed onto the lawn. The ‘buzzing wasp’ was of course his phone in his pocket.😂

As we have cctv in the back garden we all enjoyed watching the whole show repeatedly later. 🐝

I called a drain repair company out twice as they couldn’t find anything wrong with our drains but there was a rotten smell emanating from our utility room….which backed onto a lean-to greenhouse where we had forgotten about a bucket of fish heads after taking DC “crabbing” down at the pier 😝

I called the engineer out because the central heating was not coming on. He came in, immediately turned the thermostat on the wall up from the frost setting and it came on. I was so embarrassed.

Not that stupid - in some areas they are only open for limited hours.

Did exactly this! The vet said “do I actually need to explain what these are?”!

This is brilliant.

My MIL bought a duvet with a different tog weight on each side for her and her husband (she gets hot/he gets cold)
Drove 30 miles back to the shop to return it because the hot/cold sides were on the wrong sides of the bed.
Sales assistants reaction: "Couldn't yiu just flip it over?"

😆😃🤣😄

That's bloody brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

I had a really similar thing happen to me so this post has made me feel a lot better! I called the plumber because I spotted a wet patch I assumed was a leak. He came out to inspect it....turned out my three year old had smeared vaseline on the wall 🤦🤦

LOL sorry but made me laugh.

There was a lady who phoned AED and asked what the opening times were?

That keep us laughing all day.

Right. People posting funny and embarrassing things for a laugh are in no way being dramatic, and nor were you, yours was quite unusual and honestly funny but I can see why you were super embarrassed.

It's an amusing thread, not a dramatic or attention seeking one.

But then I'm puzzled as to why so many people are such drama queens in this forum. Is it an attention-getting ploy or what?

You’ve made a lot of people smile op, & that’s amazing

I once phoned my DH in a panic as we suddenly had no heating or hot water. He was working away for a month so just me and DC in house. DH (hes a builder) phoned his plumber to come out. 8pm so late but a favour. Turned out i had forgotten to top up gas credit on our pay as u go meter at the time. I was mortified!

ArtificialFlower · Today 07:48

I found some suspicious lumps on her underside. I was staying with a friend miles from home so we looked up a local vet. Who I rang in a panic to describe the lumps. She asked me precisely where they were, and then patiently explained they were the dog’s nipples. And no, I probably shouldn’t try twisting them off with a tick remover as I suggested.

Aged 5, my daughter was playing with the dog, getting her to roll over, when she asked what the lumps were. "Nipples," I explained, "Oh? Has she got boobs?" "Yes, she's a lady dog.

"What are you doing, Daughter?"

"Counting, she has lots!"

Cue months of her calling the dog not Rosie, but Ten Tits.