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Melonmango70 · 14/08/2025 08:47

We had VIP tickets at a festival, which included yurt-like accommodation (basically a tiny lockable hut). We got to the festival, dumped our stuff and went for a wander. When we went back the door wouldn't unlock, so we went to staff to sort it out. They used their master key to unlock it and we were so relieved...then looked in and none of our stuff was there. We'd been robbed! We were raging for about ten seconds until we realised....not robbed - just trying to get into the wrong mini-yurt. Pair of twats!

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 08:45

My best friend is terrified of wasps. One day she was in her shared kitchen with her housemate that she didn't know very well. She could hear a buzzing sound. She started to panic and was waving her arms around going "where is it? Where is it?" Her housemate then politely pointed out it was the noise from the next door neighbour mowing his lawn...🤣

Robin67 · 14/08/2025 08:17

LeftieRightsHoarder · 13/08/2025 22:33

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.

Same here. It's so annoying isn't it

PeonyPatch · 14/08/2025 08:17

redbusbeepbeep · 13/08/2025 19:58

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.

Absolutely love this. 😂🤣

NotSmallButFunSize · 14/08/2025 08:10

takealettermsjones · 13/08/2025 20:03

Hahahahaahaha amazing 🤣

I was once that person who logged an IT issue at work, got them to come and fix it, and it wasn't plugged in properly 🤣

Oh this is me too -

"What the hell is wrong with this camera? It's so annoying, never works on Teams, just blackness blah blah ..."

"You see that little slider at the top? That's a lens cover"

🙈

AndiPandiPuddinAndPie · 14/08/2025 07:50

Many years ago on a swelteringly hot day, me and my mum decided to make the most of it and sit in the kids paddling pool with a couple of martinis 🍸. It was lovely , the only problem being there was a house alarm going off in one of the houses nearby. We sat there chatting about how it must be the heat and the homeowner had to be at work or on holiday to not turn it off. About 45 minutes later it was getting seriously annoying, ruining our sunbathing and chill out. It was only when we went in for a drink refil that we realised it was our alarm 😳

Ihaveonedaughter · 14/08/2025 07:49

I was really worried about the colour of my hands , they were going blue, and went to see the GP who told me to keep an eye on them over the next week or so. Then the next day i was washing my hair and realised my hands were blue from using purple shampoo!!

ArtificialFlower · 14/08/2025 07:48

Hillrunning · 13/08/2025 22:24

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'

I’d been walking my dog in long grass in the summer and read a scary article about ticks. 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.

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 14/08/2025 07:47

Brilliant!

At 1am I once had a police car zoom down into our cul de sac after another car. The suspect jumped out and run off into a garden. Police jumped out but couldn’t find him.

I woke up hearing noise outside my bedroom window like someone walking on gravel. Went to tell the police man outside who was looking that someone was in my garden and might be the suspect. We both went into my back garden and stood over a hedgehog that was snuffling on a rouge piece of plastic in my garden. Suspect hedgehog 😂

LyndaSnellsSniff · 14/08/2025 07:43

We had a new boiler fitted and fairly soon afterwards, the thermostat stopped "talking" to the boiler. I called the plumber who told me to check the batteries as that's usually the cause of the problem. But since it was fairly new I insisted it couldn't be the batteries and could he please come and see it.

It was the batteries.

KimberleyClark · 14/08/2025 07:42

Saponarium · 13/08/2025 22:52

This was around the time of the terror attacks in London. I was staying at my boyfriend's flat in central London. He was in a ground floor flat with mysterious neighbours above that always seemed to walk around in the middle of the night. One night, along with the heavy footsteps, we started hearing some awful fizzing and popping sounds, as if someone was mixing chemicals! We were frozen in bed, listening and terrified. We couldn't think what else it could be apart from someone making bombs, so we decided to call the police. I got up to look for my phone. It was then that I stumbled across a jam jar under the bed which contained a fermented salsa that I'd made at a local fayre about a week before. I'd completely forgotten about it and the gases had popped the lid of the jar and it was fizzing away noisily! Thank god we didn't call the police.

Reminds me of when I was about 13, there was a rather alarming fizzing noise coming from one of the kitchen cupboards, turned out it was a pea soaking tablet that used to come with packets of dried peas that had got damp in the cupboard.

PoachedCloud · 14/08/2025 07:35

Back last century, when car entertainment systems were more primitive, a mechanic charged a colleague £60 to diagnose the "knocking sound which increased at speed" as the ball she had placed on the aerial to make it easier to spot in a festival car park knocking on the roof of the car when driving.

ConcernedOfClapham · 14/08/2025 07:32

My Uncle, sadly no longer with us, but spent most of his career in a London Advertising agency and towards retirement was increasingly embarrassed about ‘keeping up with the younger intake’, and not showing himself up as some kind of senile old fart.

So when he was assigned to a campaign with a new, impressive, younger partner, he was getting to know her and the conversation went thus:

Him : “so where do you travel in from then?”

Her : “Plymouth Hoe”

Him : “Plymouth Hoe?!?”

Her : (tutting, speaking louder and slower and looking at him like he’s a senile old fart) “Pimlico”

Ginandpanic · 14/08/2025 07:25

MrBeanMustBeMyDad · 13/08/2025 23:26

I love this!
I went to see my gp last week. I left on a high,because he was lovely to me. Genuinely felt that he thought I was a delightful patient, he was unusually smiley.
It wasn't until I got home, and looked in the mirror I realised why he had been so happy. I put concealer on and didn't get around to blending before DS kicked off and we had to leave...obviously my half done make up slipped my mind.
I looked like I'd had my face painted like a lion for the appointment.

This wins 🤣🤣🤣

LastKnownSurvivor · 14/08/2025 07:23

I took my cat to the vet for his annual check-up and mentioned that I'd noticed 'a ridge on his head'. "That's his skull" the vet told me somewhat wearily

TimeForATerf · 14/08/2025 07:21

Ha ha ha, I had similar but it was a stain the decorator hadn’t got rid of. It dried funny, so when he’d left for the weekend I repainted the coving myself. Twice. Said stain didn’t go, but decorator was coming back on the Monday, so I mentioned it to him, asking if there was anything we could do.

”Yeh Terf, switch the light off, it’s the shadow from the smoke detector”

FFS.

Funnywonder · 14/08/2025 07:13

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

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Where’s the melodrama? The OP was embarrassed and shared her story on here. That’s not unlike you claiming you would share a similar story with your friends (why bother if it’s such a boring, everyday occurrence?) And the great thing is, other people have shared their embarrassing experiences and probably made the OP feel a bit better, while entertaining some folk on Mumsnet. Win all round.

KarmaKameelion · 14/08/2025 07:12

Once in a rental our hot water stopped working. Landlord sent a plumber round…. On a Saturday so out of hours call out… who pointed out of the switch on the wall that someone had accidentally hit and turned the water off. Plumber took pity on me and made me a deal… he would tell landlord it was water pressure so I wouldn’t get charged the call out fee, I would allow him to watch the football in my flat as his wife wasn’t going to let him 😂😂😂

PsychoHotSauce · 14/08/2025 07:07

Sunblocker · 14/08/2025 07:01

I took a packet of ‘Happy Birthday’ individual letters cake candles back to Asda and complained because it didn't contain the right letters. I was genuinely fuming, until the assistant silently arranged them into the words ‘Birthday Boy’ on the counter.

This is fantastic

Sunblocker · 14/08/2025 07:01

I took a packet of ‘Happy Birthday’ individual letters cake candles back to Asda and complained because it didn't contain the right letters. I was genuinely fuming, until the assistant silently arranged them into the words ‘Birthday Boy’ on the counter.

Saponarium · 14/08/2025 06:55

littlegreydevil · 14/08/2025 00:03

I used to edit a newsletter in Mailchimp that had to go out at a specific time every morning. One day, I tried logging in and it wasn’t working. With my deadline looming and in a panic, I called the support desk. Turns out I had my apes mixed up and was actually trying to log into SurveyMonkey using my MailChimp login. I never lived it down.

This one's really got me 😂I can so easily imagine doing this.

Thefaceofboe · 14/08/2025 06:51

This is hilarious 😂

Original poster

redbusbeepbeep · 14/08/2025 06:48

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

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That’s pretty much what I’ve done to be fair (I aren’t actually going to shrivel up and die)

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YellowZebraStripes · 14/08/2025 06:26

WanderingWisteria · 13/08/2025 21:15

We were on holiday in Portugal when DD was a toddler & came out in a rash. I had no idea if it was heat stroke, an allergy or something else. I knew there had been cases of chicken pox at her nursery so I wanted to rule that out. We went to a pharmacy where I tried to explain the situation. I speak no Portuguese and the pharmacist spoke very little English so I did my best impression of a chicken. From the facial expression of the pharmacist and the other customers, I quickly gathered that, whatever the Portuguese is for chicken pox, it doesn’t include the word for chicken or, indeed, any other bird.

😂😂😂

Januaryclouds · 14/08/2025 06:07

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 once drove straight back to the mechanics after a service as the car was making a new noise and it was a stone in the tyre . I had even checked for that!!
The mechanics were very kind to me - I clearly wasn’t the first person to do it!!!