Absolutely mortified!!

[Revengers18]

I'm at parents evening and after finishing with one of the teachers I accidentally awkwardly hugged her... She opened one arm out, I put my hand out and we ended up doing a half handshake and half hug like rappers do, omg it was so awkward...

Anyone else accidentally done something mortifying, please relay me with teacher stories so I don't feel as embarrassed...

BTW, it was the first time I'd met her too...

Absolutely embarrassing! Now waiting to see another teacher, hopefully will not make the same mistake...

Omg thanks so much for these, you've had me laughing though not feeling any better... It's going to be one of those situations that I look back on in years and still cringe... Omg I hope the teacher isn't a mumsnetter!!

I will behave myself and keep a distance at the next parents evening, better yet, might just send DH instead...

I told DS' teacher last night that I loved her dress. She said she though she had needed some sparkle.... We then kinda looked around.... ho hum.

Omg. Thanks for this thread. I'm actually crying with laughter.

I did it to a waitress after a meal, we were getting up from the table, she leaned in to take the bill just as I said thank you. I thought she was coming in for a hug so enthusiastically wrapped my arms round her like she was an old friend. Mortified

This thread is amazing! Thanks for the laugh op.

I was introduced to a new work colleague and it was in an extremely loud room so I massively misread the situation and didn't realise that he put his hand out for a handshake. I got a bit flustered and ended up shaking his thumb only. Fuck knows why or how that even happened.

It just looked like I didn't want to touch him. Very embarrassing, not helped by my colleagues who still roll around laughing when I'm introduced to someone new 

I once kissed a senior Managing Director at work on the lips by accident. I'd just come back from maternity leave, I went to shake his hand, he went to hug me, totally flustered I thought we were doing the cheek kissing thing and he turned his head at just the wrong moment.

It was so awfully awkward it took me about 3 weeks to recover. Oh the horror.

I was once sat in a busy pub, man that I vaguely knew came in, looks right at me, walks over and leans in. We aren’t on kiss hello terms but I think ‘why not’? And rather than air kiss for some reason planted a smacker on his cheek. Only turns out he wasn’t saying hello to me, wanted to speak to the man behind me.

Even worse he’s a dpd delivery driver so I see him all the time.

I laughed at this

I high fived someone senior at work after we won a pitch
I realised half way through it was not going down well but couldn’t back out
It was awful

Oh am laughing more now have read

It’s the random huggers that get me

I walked into a restaurant with a friend, really nice 'fancy' place he goes to a lot, busy bar area and a handsome guy walks over and says hi! To my friend, I enthusiastically shook his hand and introduced myself. He whipped out two menus and showed us to our table.

Oh god. These are all brilliant.
But the thumb shake...
I've done something similar.
I put the wrong hand out to reciprocate when shaking hands with some bloke, so ended up sort of doing a lame, limpy, swinging, holding hands thing. I looked such a tit and for the whole meeting I could barely concentrate on anything that was being said, just saying in my head "why did I do that?" over and over.

Threewheeler

Brilliant so small yet so funny

I hugged my gynecologist. He put his arm out as he greated me. Turns out he was just guiding me as to which room to go into IYGWIM

Omg these are so funny, the thumb is shake is hilarious!! Still cringing at myself though... The thing is these things once they start happening seem to happen in such slow motion that you remember each detail...

We'd been at a party with some friends and had, over the course of the night been introduced to some other couples. It was getting near the end of the night and one of the husbands headed towards where I was sitting and bent down in my direction. I assumed he was saying goodnight and bending down to give me a kiss so in my merry state I leapt up and gave him a kiss. He looked mortified and as I sat down back down said 'can I just get my coat off the back of your chair'. 

My worst is when you think someone is going in for a kiss on the cheek but they keep on going forward for just a hug and you end up kissing them on the ear which feels borderline sexual

Omg Buster, how have you not moved to a different country??

I was once at an interview and had to shake hands with the interview panel as they were introduced, I knew you say something when you shake someone's hand (pleased to meet you, or how do you do etc) but interview nerves made me forget what it was and I ended up sort of bobbing at the knees and saying 'thank you' as I shook hands with all of them, like some crazy old family retainer.
I didn't get the job.

Thank you for these!
Cheered me up no end.
John Lewis man ended phone call with 'bye, love you" I was very British and pretended not to hear - wish I'd said 'love you too' and hung up!

I hugged a client a little while ago when he was actually trying to give me a high five. We both just styled it out and moved on with the conversation.

On parents' evening, I always take a bottle of water with me - I was swigging away whilst talking to DC's teacher and then as the appointment ended I realised I had been drinking from her identical bottle as I had set mine on the floor. I then awkwardly offered her my bottle as a sort of consolation. She refused it. Still blush when I think of the awkwardness!

The hand shake awkwardly lying on the hospital bed and the thumb shake has got me ugly crying with laughter in the office.

A very senior manager once told me he was going to be working out of my office more in the future and without thinking I said, very flirtily, "oh, lucky me!" I'm married, he's married. It was followed by a long awkward silence.

I am crying with laugher. Squeaking too.
Thank you!

Once had a situation which was supposed to be handshake and peck on the cheek with a good friend and church leader that mis-timed and turned into a kiss on the lips. I don't know who was more startled or embarrassed!

Oh hell these are always sooo embarrassing but here you go
I told the male nurse(so very gay) who had been holding my hand through a minor procedure, that I loved him and wanted to marry him. Don't even have anaesthetic to blame, it was local. He looked so startled. Obviously.

I met a fella while walking dogs, we really clicked, I told him my life story and how bored I currently am, he told me all about his life and he almost certainly thinks I was wanting an affair with him.

I tripped over a tiny, weeny, smallest ever, almost none existent ledge, hurt myself really hardly at all. Ugly cried, in front of several men who then told everyone else. I never even walk that way anymore, it's been a year and I go well out of my way to avoid.

I live in France and have many times gone to the wrong side and planted a kiss slap bang on the lips of a fellow school mum. It's happened so often now I can ride out the embarrassment with a whoops I am English.

The most humiliating moment was when I was explaining to my son's teacher that his missing book was probably at home but we had just moved and my house was a mess.

What I actually declared loudly and in front of a group of parents and children was that I have moved and my new house is a brothel .

I couldn't look her in the eye for the rest of the year.