AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

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These are hilarious!

I once put something in the microwave only to lose power to the whole of downstairs, immediately checked the fusebox but they were all fine and facing the right way up.

Immediately called electrician in tears as it was winter and I had no working appliances, very little spare money and my whole downstairs was going to need rewiring. I then lugged heavy microwave upstairs and used it to heat my soup.

Electrician comes round, goes straight to cupboard under stairs where fusebox is, pushes up the rogue switch that I had managed to overlook and hey presto everything came back on.

I was way too mortified to feel any immediate relief but luckily the fella was a star and didn't even charge me. Said it was the easiest job he'd had in a long time 🤦.

I ordered a huge amount of vehicle parts totalling £700. It came, I counted out and checked off all the gaskets, seals, bolts etc, and discovered we were missing a spring. Double checked it was missing. Rang the company to complain, and he organised another spring to come with the 2 outstanding items due in from overseas in a couple of days. I was just thanking him when I noticed the spring, still in its bag, had somehow rolled off my desk and was on the floor.

@Strangerthanfictions that really made me laugh!

When I was heavily pregnant and sleeping badly I was woken up one night by a high pitched beeping, went all around the house while my husband slept trying to find it and couldn’t, although it sounded loudest in our room. Eventually at 6am I woke him up to see if he could identify it, he also went all around the house, even going outside to the front garden, came back in none the wiser.

He went back to sleep, I’m fuming at this point that it must be a neighbour doing something.

When DH woke up later that morning he suddenly realised that the mysterious beeping was the old fire alarms he’d put in our bins. And we probably annoyed the houses around us all night.

I had a sofa/carpet cleaner come out last year. When I went to see how he was getting on he told me he'd found a stain on the sofa and spent ages trying to get it but it just wouldn't budge... until he eventually realised it was a shadow

YANBU.

I am crying laughing at that! Thank you for sharing

This makes it even more hilarious 😂😂😂 he could have laughed it off and both had some banter….. but no. He had to inflict some second-hand embarrassment on top of your own humiliation 😂😂😂 Amazing.

Just brilliant OP. Thank you for giving me a much needed laugh tonight.

Many years ago I called a mechanic friend to come over and help me figure out why my new motorbike wouldn't start. Turns out I wasn't pressing the starter switch.

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.

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Oh my god 🤣 Sorry but that’s comedy gold.

I got a new printer at work, unplugged everything to plug it into the back of the pc (this was before USB, when everything had to be unplugged from the mains to add new hardware), plugged everything back into the four-way extension lead, and nothing would turn on. Called IT down. The guy looked round the back of the computer and fell about laughing. He eventually composed himself enough to show me that I had indeed plugged everything back into the four-way extension lead, including its own plug that should have been plugged in at the wall 😳

@Spookedbythespiders
I used to work for BT on the fault reporting call centre, customers would regularly call us and INSIST it was the phone beeping! We would politely tell them to change the batteries and then ring back…

My washing machine recently started making the most horrendous machine-gun like sound any time it was turned on and I was dreading having to replace it.

Handyman came round and within about twenty seconds pulled out my tiny drain unblocker pipe cleaner type object (no idea how it got in there to begin with) that had got stuck inside one of the holes. I had previously asked DH to look inside the drum to see if anything was in there and he said he’d given it a thorough inspection so I stupidly didn’t bother to look myself. 🫠 I was mortified I’d wasted his time over something so simple and looked so daft.

When I had my first flat I called out the council because I couldn't get any of my lights on. I had never heard of the trip switch 😁

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My Dad, a farmer, used to raise turkeys for Christmas. One Christmas Day he took our turkey out of the oven to take to a customer who'd phoned up to complain that her turkey had no meat on it when she tried to carve it, and she had a houseful of people to feed. When my Dad got there he pointed out she was trying to carve it upside down...

It was that horrid winter in 2010 and I’d just passed my test the week before. I’d gone to photograph a building in the middle of nowhere and was reversing in order to turn round, when I heard a crrrrunch. Shit. Tried to pull forward a bit so I could check the damage but the car wouldn’t move. Double shit. I must’ve hit that old dilapidated fence whilst reversing and got a piece wedged underneath! I’d better call breakdown…No signal on phone…. TRIPLE SHIT!!! Full on panic mode I’m looking round for signs of people and all I can see is a tractor in the field doing……farming things(?!) so I decide to run over and ask to use his phone. I do exactly this, only once he’s finally understood my panicked gibberish, he kindly starts walking towards my car to see if he can help - result!
10 mins later and he’s had the bonnet open, he’s been underneath, no hint of what’s stopping it moving. Then he looks in the window and says “Handbrake’s on love….”

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I have had cats all my adult life - no idea they have a belly button, though it makes sense given they’re mammals.

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don't worry, it'll give him a laugh with his mates!

you'll always have that 'cringe' moment when you think about it, but you'll think about it far less often in the near future!

Happy Birthday.