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Absolutely mortified!!

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Revengers18 · 06/11/2018 19:43

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...

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frami · 07/11/2018 13:33

Not school but last year I bumped into my friend's very nice, but old fashioned ad very proper, elderly father in our local shop. It was a Christmas Eve or thereabouts so was a I bit frazzled. After some polite chit chat he said goodbye. Without engaging brain I responded with:
"bye, see you soon, love you"
He just looked at me - I still cringe at the thought.

Squeakyheart · 07/11/2018 13:36

As a waitress in a noisy restaurant I bent down to better hear a customer. He was complaining about how the chips were soggy and cold and I should try them to see how bad they were whilst gesturing with one in his hand so I ate it out of his hand! Shocked the pair of us so dashed into the kitchen and got another waitress to take him fresh chips! He didn't leave a tip!

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Vixxxy · 07/11/2018 13:43

I have once said 'love you' to my sons teacher when picking him up. I also said it to my GP! I am so used to pretty much only speaking to family, its not often I can even leave the house because of my illness. And the rare times I do go out..I do stuff like this Grin

Beaverhausen · 07/11/2018 13:47

ROFL OP I would dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Grin Grin Grin Grin

jcorbyn · 07/11/2018 13:48

I tried to high five a colleague once but missed and patted her boob.

QuimReaper · 07/11/2018 13:49

Oh Squeaky that is brilliant Grin

We were staying at a friend's house a while ago and he poured me a drink, then poured one for himself and went to cheers me. He did it strangely low-down and I got confused and tried to take the glass out of his hand Blush I did wonder why he thought I'd want two...

QuimReaper · 07/11/2018 13:51

jcorbyn Grin Grin

Babyroobs · 07/11/2018 13:52

when our kids were little we had a habit of calling them darling and having 4 kids it happened a lot. My dh once called his boss ( male) darling by accident just because he was so used to saying it so often. He was mortified .

frogsoup · 07/11/2018 13:53

Chillimum if you said your house was a 'bordel', that's fine. I mean, it's not ordinarily slang you'd use to your child's teacher, but the meaning is spot on for 'my house is a shit tip'! Grin

Rhiannon13 · 07/11/2018 13:57

I once phoned a friend while he was temporarily living with his parents. He put on a silly posh voice and pretended he didn't know who I was. I ribbed him about his 'accent' for a good five minutes ('ooh we are a posh wanker today aren't we', 'swallowed a plum have you sir?' etc. etc) before realising he genuinely didn't know who I was. It was my friend's retired army officer dad (who I'd never met) and he was not amused. I was banned from ever visiting the house. Remembering this has given me a hot flush.

AllTakenSoRubbishUsername · 07/11/2018 13:57

When I was at my church for reading Bans for our forthcoming wedding, there was a moment where the vicar said, 'turn to the person on your left and greet them'. I assumed a handshake or a 'hello' but my neighbours were very warmly hugging each other so I grabbed my neighbour and bearhugged her, only to realise people WERE shaking hands and the other huggers were related!

Kittykat93 · 07/11/2018 13:57

Omg some of these are hilarious 😂

The hospital bed shaking hands, eating a chip out of a customers hands and kissing the bloke trying to get his coat are personal highlights Grin

HappilyHarridan · 07/11/2018 13:58

I once was getting off the bus, and instead of walking off the bus with a cheery thank you to the driver (which is what I intended to do) instead for some reason I stopped right next to the driver, turned so I was looking right at him and said ‘hello’ in a surprisingly earnest voice. He said hi and looked a bit nervous, at which point I just turned and left the bus trying to work out what the hell I was doing!

Rhiannon13 · 07/11/2018 13:59

Got a plum in your mouth, not swallowed a plum... Jeez!

AllTakenSoRubbishUsername · 07/11/2018 14:01

Also, and this is the worst thing ever that I have done... I was making out with my boyfriend when his parents were out one eve, and we thought we might 'do the deed' for the first time. We went into their bedroom (it was downstairs) which was dark with the curtains drawn. We sort of fell on the bed and to our horror his folks were in the bed so we landed on them!!!!! Absolutely nothing you can ever to do get out of that one! I can tell you that landing on someone's parents when you're half dressed is more effective than any trampoline. I still didn't work out why they weren't out like we thought, but maybe they decided to try to catch us out.

Lordofmyflies · 07/11/2018 14:01

I went to our lovely male GP a month ago and he got out of his chair to open the door and let me into the consultation room. I entered the room, said hello, how are you and sat in his chair behind the desk! WTF. I was soooo embarrassed and made a joke about wrong seat etc, but obviously then had to stay to tell him about my sinuses.

Yesitwasmethistime · 07/11/2018 14:02

This has given me a good chuckle Grin

I once kissed DS’s baby head as you do but forgot he was having cranial osteopathy at the time and kissed the osteopath’s hand instead. She didn’t have children so thought it very strange and didn’t quite get the always kissing your baby thing. Grin

Yesitwasmethistime · 07/11/2018 14:03

alltaken I think you have to win 😂😂

Chickenwings85 · 07/11/2018 14:05

Haha these are brilliant!

GraceMarks · 07/11/2018 14:05

This sort of thread is why I'm glad I'm not a hugger/kisser, as it would never occur to me to do this to anyone outside of my immediate family...

I was once on the receiving end of a Basil Fawlty-style boob honk by a male manager on my first day in a new job, when I was about 22. He was showing me through to where I would be sitting, and we'd just gone through a door when someone else came up and started talking to him. I was sort of halfway through the door so I waited while he finished his conversation, and he then reached back and started groping around for the door handle. I guess he had forgotten that it was already open and that I was standing there, although I have to say it took him a couple of good squeezes before he realised what he was doing. I was so struck dumb with horror that I didn't say anything, but my mortification was absolutely nothing compared with his. I ended up feeling sorry for him because he just could not stop apologising.

Mind you, I lost my sympathy when he came up to me later the same day and started saying again how completely sorry he was, in front of all my new colleagues, so that I was then obliged to explain what had happened.

Tighnabruaich · 07/11/2018 14:06

We had pre-arranged a taxi to pick us up from a Spanish airport. We saw the guy holding out the sign with our names on and went up to greet him/introduce ourselves. He held out his hand and I put my hand luggage case into it. He then held out his hand to my husband who, of course, shook it. I then realised I had rather grandly given him my bag to carry when he just wanted to politely shake hands.

NameChangeToAvoidBeingFound · 07/11/2018 14:11

I have autism so I have a tendency to do or say unusually things without thinking.

I bumped into a man with massive amounts of ginger hair and and a large ginger beard, in the pub, he said hi and I responded with 'you have hair like Aslan, I love it' and walked away.

At church I met someone twice in one day and when he greeted me the second time with a high five I complied but with the comment 'I've already met you today'. Why I thought that was appropriate I have no idea luckily the guy knows me well and is used to autistic people and the lack of verbal restraint and just laughed and joked about it.

My friend and I were wrestling over a toy spring (we're both in our 20's so why we were fighting over it I don't know, most likely boredom), ended up with me straddling him while still wrestling, other friends walked into the room at that exact moment, one yelled what are you doing and the other went purple yelled we'll just leave you two alone then and backed out quickly Blush. My mother was nearby and we just got a look from her conveying do what you want but not on the couch Grin and no amount of talking to any of them will convince them there was nothing going on other than the fact that my friend and I are children and wrestling over toy spring.

Another time walking through a theme park I knocked the same friend as befores backside with my backpack as I was swinging it to put it on. Something another friend saw happen yet he will not be swayed from the fact that I smacked his backside Blush

Same friend growled in my ear while we and other friends were playing a boardgame (at a church event), making me jump, make a squeaking noise and turn purple and respond with 'you shouldn't growl at me outside of the bedroom' Confused Which broke him and our other friends and I have no idea why I said. I and my friends are all very Christian and virgins and I've never been alone with this friend in a bedroom so why that was the first thing that jumped out of my mouth I have no idea.

The same friend decided that it would be a good idea to blow in my ear Confused while we were all at the pub as group a friend asked what we were doing and I responded with 'he likes blowing me'. I have never seen men get quite so red, laugh so much or choke so quickly, problem was I had no idea what I'd said till he told me through his laughter, and I don't think I have ever gone so red.

I chastised the same friend in a French airport for jumping in front of another friend in the queue with 'your british, you know how to queue, you should know better' right in front of the security guard who needed to take five because he was laughing.

One that is not me but a friend. She got flustered when the guy she likes was wearing a shirt rather than cartoon t-shirts he normally wears and came out with 'You look good wearing a shirt, not that you don't look good when your not. I mean you look good wearing t-shirts not topless. I mean you do look good topless but .... You look good in shirts you should wear them more often'. Which I'm still teasing her about because I'm a good friend.

The guy that my friend above was talking to when meeting her dad for the first time was drinking milk and eating biscuits, which is fine, got confused and almost squashed a chewed/slightly soggy (think of what happens when a toddler eats biscuits) biscuit into her dads hand when he went to shake his hand.
Same guy when referring to the shop CEX (I pronounce it C as in Cat, he pronounces it as C as in Circle) said the phrase I had no idea Cex was so good. Which made my friend who fancies him laugh so much she cried. He went a funny colour and looked like he was debating laughing, hiding or sighing at our immature response.

Threewheeler1 · 07/11/2018 14:13

HappilyHarridan
That is brilliantly unsettling! Grin

I once patted another Mum on the head at a friends house. We were celebrating her birthday and I didn't know all her friends. The other Mum was quite petite and went to pass me in the doorway as we were all mingling and chatting between 2 rooms. As she passed me I absentmindedly put my hand on her head, the way you'd shepherd one of your kids past you in a tight space. She was really good-humoured about it but I still can't think about it without cringing.

And I sort of lick-bit the side of someone's face. We were introduced and he leaned in to give a greeting kiss on the side of my face whilst I was still talking and wasn't expecting it. I ended up dragging my teeth and lips down his cheek whilst making muffled "Nice to meet you" sounds. He had to wipe his cheek afterwards.

mimibunz · 07/11/2018 14:15

Texted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to my male boss.

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