AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

We were in a hotel in India so when I heard a sort of knocking/buzzing noise coming from the bathroom I was afraid the electrics were going wrong in some way. I woke my DH to investigate as there was no way I was going back to sleep! In the end he called the reception who managed to send the maintenance man about 4am…. I’d left my electric toothbrush on and it was vibrating on the wall

I also put my story on the work group chat as I thought it would make my colleagues laugh. When I next went into the office, my manager said "now Connie, do you need a hand with your chair?" 🤣

I hopped down, yanked the chair off the wall & sat on it, inwardly trying not to piss myself laughing whilst also wanting to die....!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have genuinely just drawn quite a few glances my way by cackling loudly out loud over this!

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!!!" 🤣

Ha ha I only knew what this meant because my partner is a mechanic.

Lol, the poor guy is going to crack a few jokes off you from a few weeks.
Don't worry lovely, you are not the only one who has made a fool of themselves. Hardly an oddity.

Way back, when video recorders were fairly new in the classroom I was trying to find the right place on the video tape to show the class a prerecorded schools programme.
I couldn't work out why I had a random cable left over and spent ages looking all over the tv and video recorder.
In desperation I found the headteacher and asked him to help.
It took him 2 seconds.
The cable belonged to the electric kettle which wason the side table next to the giant TV on wheels!

I forgot about the time my parents had been on a day out,my father had taken them on his (then new) motorbike

Anyway,she decided that on the way home she needed to stop at a corner shop so he pulled in and she got off and wandered into the shop

He moved a few meters down the road while he waited for her,figuring she'd see him on his 'massive new BLACK bike' (his words)

She came wandering out,clutching her carrier bag and jumped onto the back of a smaller black and yellow motorbike while jabbing him in the ribs,screeching 'come on you slow arsehole,we need to get home!'

Yep,a poor bloke had pulled into the spot my father had left and it just happened to look vaguely like my father's old motorbike

The penny dropped when this poor soul turned to look at her and that's when she saw my father sat about 5 meters down the road and laughing at her

I don't think she's ever forgiven him

These are epic, marking place!

Phoned Apple customer support because my week old brand new AirPods had suddenly stopped working… turns out you need to charge them after 4 hours-ish of use. Oops

I once parked up on the road outside the post office, went to post a letter and came out and saw my tyre was going flat so I gave it a push with my foot to check it. Looked up and saw a bemused person looking at me, from the driving seat. It was then I realised my red car was parked further down the road. 😂

One morning when I was heading out to do the school run, I couldn't shut my front door over properly. Tried it several times, but there was something stopping it.
Hurriedly took DS to school and, on my return, phoned the council to report it.

They sent out their maintenance team who straight away pointed out that I'd turned the lock before shutting it, so the metal bolt thing was sticking out - which was why it wasn't closing properly.

😳

Yes to be honest the first thought that went through my head was she shagged the plumber 🤣
I’ll get my coat …..

Checked in to a rather posh hotel and a guy carried the suitcase upstairs and put it on the stand for me, I could hear a strange sound in the room and was thinking they've given me a cheap room close to some electrical equipment or something, the guy seemed a bit quick to leave and I'm thinking he wants to be gone before I start complaining. I was about to ring down to reception, but just opened the suitcase first, the noise got much louder and I found the electric toothbrush had turned itself on and was buzzing away merrily.

My mother did something similar years ago

She'd just got her first car and it was a real banger

First time out in it,she'd driven about 90 miles away from home with her friend and stopped for ice cream

Came back and she'd somehow locked the keys in the car

She found a payphone and rang my father and asked if he would ride on his motorbike with the spare key

He's a bad tempered man at the best of times and ranted that he was due his afternoon nap but as she's the boss of their marriage,he knew he couldn't just leave her stranded and set off

He would have been about 5 minutes away when her friend noticed the passenger door was open

Quick as a flash,she locked that door and sweetly accepted the keys when he finally got there

He still rants about it (25 years on) but doesn't know about that door!

We have been under the fear of torture if we ever let on (well I'm not as I'm nc but my brothers dare not blab)

I love that 😂

I once got on the night bus home after a night out, I had had quite a few drinks.
Saw a man sitting on the back seat with a curly black dog on his knee ... exclaimed very loudly 'oh can I stroke your dog' as i charged down the bus towards him.

It was not his dog ... it was his girlfriends head in his lap as she tried to get some sleep on the way home!!

Mortified.

I’ve done one better than this. Once I presumed a queue of cars waiting at a red light were parked up so I drove down the side of them to the front at least you could just pretend you intended to park up 🤣

When driving on an unfamiliar road, I saw traffic lights ahead on red and a queue of traffic so I queued with them. Saw someone drive past me up to the lights, I glared at him thinking he was trying to push in.
The lights changed, he moved off, my queue stayed stationary.
Yes dear reader, I was queuing in a line of parked cars.

I once bought a washing machine and it malfunctioned well within the guarantee period. So, I rang Currys to arrange a repair. But they had no record of me ever having bought the washing machine from them. I had the receipt, so quoted the date, and the receipt number - no joy. Becoming infuriated, I got out the guarantee document and quoted the reference number on that to the poor chap on the other end of the line. It was at that point that I noticed the name of the company at the top of the guarantee document. It was Comet. I gasped in utter horror, slammed the phone, babbled 'Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!' and cringed in utter embarrassment.

I had to have two cups of tea before I could ring Comet to arrange the repair.

During COVID I was an essential worker and we set up a mobile food bank for our residents. It was all on the fly, so we used to pick up stock in our work car from a food distribution depot. There was a great spirit of camaraderie and pulling together etc. Plus it was so novel to actually see people in the flesh, so actually it was a really enjoyable experience.

One week, my colleagues and I had loaded up the back of my car as usual. Theirs had already been loaded. I was first in the convoy, so I started driving away and my colleagues were giving me big waves goodbye. I laughed and waved back, grinning like an idiot, feeing really good about what we were doing for our community, and kept on driving out of the depot.

Didn't realize my boot was open until a stack of crates fell out all over the road. They hadn't been waving at me. They had been trying to stop me from driving away.

My DH has a knack of putting himself in these situations and it is a constant source of amusement for us, but one that stands out is when he decided that he wanted to get a cat.
He came home with a female cat and called her Jasmine. He had her for approximately 12 months at the time when he took her to the vet’s to get her annual boosters, whilst there he asked the vet’s if he could book her in to get her spayed. The vet look at him like he was crazy and the following conversation followed -

Vet - “no but you can book HIM in to get neutered, your cat is male”
DH - “ but he doesn’t cock his leg when he wee’s”
Vet - “that’s because he is a cat, not a dog”

the cats name was changed to Jazz and we still laugh about it 15 years later 🤣