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I have never looked as much a complete idiot as I did this morning.

180 replies

DoubleNegativePanda · 18/09/2018 16:00

I was running late this morning and ran around like a crazy person getting us out and on the school run. Dropped dd off and ran into work late, joined the morning staff meeting in progress. Coworker motioned at my legs and whispered "what happened?" which of course while quiet still caught the attention of the group who all looked at me.

Somehow, and I have no fucking idea how it happened, I trod in butter. Why was butter on the floor? I couldn't tell you. So there I am in clinic, standing there with a fucking lump of softened butter all over the side of my shoe and smeared on the legs of my scrubs (which must have happened when I was driving).

I had to consciously stop myself from dancing around trying to hide my foot behind myself which would only make it worse. Then I had to go stand in my pants in the bathroom trying to scrub butter out of my trouser legs with hand soap. WTAF is happening in my life that I'm standing in my pants at work with butter on my shoes.

Before anyone asks me how I failed to notice it myself, I have gigantic massive norks and haven't seen my feet in decades.

I'm just at a loss. I'm also a bit scared to go home and see what carnage I've made of my house walking around with butter feet, and how much worse my cats will have made it.

OP posts:
kaitlinktm · 18/09/2018 17:27

I walked out of my house one morning wearing my slippers. DH had to call me back

I arrived at work in my slippers once - noticed as I waited at the traffic lights to turn left into the car park.

Have also worn odd shoes on several occasions - this is what comes of buying the same shoe in a few colours.

MrsCatE · 18/09/2018 17:33

Jenela you win! Bluntness please tell us you kicked Philip Green up the arse!

I once chased a lady down by Westminster Bridge / house of commons to inform her that her sleeveless dress was unzipped at the back (and asked if she wanted me to zip her up). I have no idea how she didn't realise because must have been quite breezy - unzipped to below bra strap to just above knickers. Surely that good deed will be paid back?!

TheObwaldhutte · 18/09/2018 17:35

A friend had a pair of knickers fall out her trouser leg once at work. Clearly at least the second day she had worn the trousers Grin

Masssive norks eh? Bit of a stealth boast there OP. I look down and only see feet sadly Grin

MrMeSeeks · 18/09/2018 17:40

Bluntness100
You’ve just made me laugh out loud on the bus Grin

cherrytree63 · 18/09/2018 17:41

I've done the odd shoe thing several times.
In the days when I was doing my horses before work I often rushed in with my hair full of hay.
I generally changed into my work clothes at the stables before heading off to work. The one time I was late and decided to just turn the horses out in my work clothes (I mean, what could possibly go wrong?) the buggers bolted as soon as I opened the gate. I hung on for grim death because I knew I'd never catch them to get their headcollars off when they were excited.
They rolled me between them like a fag before I fell, still hanging on.
Didn't have time to go home to change and spent the day battered and bruised and covered in mud. Fekkers!
And once I found a dead mouse in my coat pocket.
Also have a habit of not rinsing my hair properly and then having people asking me why my ears are full of conditioner.

TheQueenSnortsAvocados · 18/09/2018 17:43

I had to dress a lady in the pub toilet on Saturday. She'd got all in a tangle in her jumpsuit and couldn't move her arms.

It wasn't that embarrassing, though, as I was as plastered as she was.

I've definitely had to do the jumper-round-waist thing, after splitting my trousers.

Chrisinthemorning · 18/09/2018 17:43

I have to get changed into my scrubs when I arrive at work and change back when I leave or if I go out for lunch. I change my top at lunchtime (so if I spill yoghurt or soup down myself it isn’t on my clinical clothes) Do you wear your scrubs to travel to work then?
Anyway poor you, sounds a nightmare.

SmurfandTurf · 18/09/2018 17:46

I have to wear scrubs for work. Sometimes if I’m running late (and they don’t have gunk on them) I wear them home, then wear them to work the next day and switch to new ones when I get there.

TheObwaldhutte · 18/09/2018 17:46

Back in the 80's when it was compulsory to own dungarees it was also compulsory to drop the straps in the bog pan full of wee. I complied with this on many occasions Grin

vampirethriller · 18/09/2018 17:50

I only realised that I'd forgotten to put knickers on when my dress blew right up in the draught as I was getting off the tube. Another time I spent half the day walking round Uni with a bra stuck to the back of my jumper.
My dad used to be a lecturer and was giving a talk on an open day, felt a lump in the back of his shirt, fished it out to find it was a pair of my mothers knickers.

PomDeNlume · 18/09/2018 17:53

Glad to see I'm not the only one who had a complete sense of humour failure and queried the fact that you were wearing scrubs to work Grin

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 18/09/2018 17:54

Back in the dark ages when I worked at 192 I left work and walked home still wearing my telephone headset... I'd been to the butcher's on the way and everything 🤭

busybuildingdens · 18/09/2018 17:55

I remember a colleague coming it to work in slippers, and only realising midway through the morning when someone pointed it out 😂

DancingDot · 18/09/2018 17:56

Was there not a thread on her about a woman who was on her way to her smear and grabbed some deodorant from her daughters bag to really quickly freshen up her vag area. When she was in the surgery, legs akimbo, the nurse kindly laughed and thanked her for making such an effort. When she had a look down she realised she had used her daughters glitter hair spray and not in fact deodorant. Grin

PomDeNlume · 18/09/2018 17:59

Yes Dot, several women have had this issue over the past 24 years!

www.snopes.com/fact-check/all-that-glitters-is-not-bold/

Hoppinggreen · 18/09/2018 18:00

I did the Sainsbury’s shop in my slippers last week.
Don’t think anyone noticed

FreezerBird · 18/09/2018 18:00

Not a clothing one but still looked an idiot.

Last week picking the kids up from an after school activity - this is always like herding cats. DD had got her shoes on, DS had gone off to find his bag, I was stressed. Eventually DS ready, so tried to locate DD. Looked everywhere, couldn't see her. Getting increasingly annoyed as we had to get home promptly. In the end, marching around going "where is DD? Come on, DS is ready, let's go! Where is she?"

Until the organiser pointed out that she was right next to me and I was holding her hand, and had been the entire time.

DancingDot · 18/09/2018 18:01

HAHAHA!! Pom Love it! Grin I suppose a glittery fanny is not actually that embarrassing in the age of the vajazzle. Although I am so old and far removed from fashion I don't actually know if vajazzles are still a thing.

Catlover97 · 18/09/2018 18:02

Bluntness tell us you're Father Ted and were kicking Bishop Brennan up the arseWink

Also had the joy of a pencil skirt zip go at the top and the side slit expand to crotch level which was a good look -note to self, never buy skirts in Mango for a tenner, they really aren't that good valueBlush

Bluntness100 · 18/09/2018 18:05

Sadly not 🤣

ShotsFired · 18/09/2018 18:05

I once went to the loo, and glancing back as I flushed thought it odd that I had forgotten to wipe, but was absolutely knackered and rushing out to lunch with colleagues.

Some while later colleague picked a trail of loo paper off me. Somehow (no idea to this day), I'd managed to get the toilet paper caught up in my trousers instead of the bowl and I had been wearing it like a tail. Mortifying.

JellieEllie · 18/09/2018 18:09

LadyMonica that really made me laugh so much 😂😂😂

shamalamalam · 18/09/2018 18:13

A little while ago I bought myself some fancy pants which came on a little hanger

I spent most of the day at work with the pants/hanger dangling off the back of my jumper

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 18/09/2018 18:19

Before anyone asks me how I failed to notice it myself, I have gigantic massive norks and haven't seen my feet in decades
Snorting at this Grin join the mahoosive over the shoulder boulder holder club lovely and think nothing of it. I count myself lucky to have always had the kind of colleagues and friends that have inured me (and I them) to ridicule over the years that I now laugh in the face of so called ‘embarrassment’!. Once, on a cold icy day and just before I got in a cab to a v important business meeting, I realised I’d left something important indoors and so rushed back down my front path which was sheet ice. I slipped and fell and slid down the path to the door slicing open both knees in the process. I jumped up, went in and retrieved important papers, cleaned up knees that were by now weeping and bleeding, and discovered I had absolutely no large plasters or bandages in the house. Which is how I ended up attending the meeting with a sanitary towel sellotaped to each knee. Won the deal though......

ToadOfSadness · 18/09/2018 18:34

I had surgery and went to have the stitches removed. Went shopping afterwards.

I was getting some odd looks in Selfridges, until one of the sales ladies asked me why I had stripes on my face. I had steri strips but there were no scars so must have looked really weird. The surgeon had removed the stitches but left the strips and not told me.