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...

happilyharridan that made me properly lol!

And alltaken, you have defo won!! 😂😬

frogsoup yes that's exactly what I did I didn't realise the meaning and the teacher looked a bit shocked so I asked my French teacher who looked at me like I was a total imbecile and told me the translation. I have always been too embarrassed to ask anyone else in real life.

Thank you so much I am glad she would have understood. I am not too worried about the innapropriate bit as I suspect at least half of what I say is in the wrong register or too blunt

Not a parents evening but DH & I were once in a meeting with Head & deputy head (about misbehaving DC).

Meeting finished amicably & we were all shaking hands but somehow I managed to shake Head's hand across DH shaking deputy's hand & it was like we were all about to break into a country dance. I had great trouble stifling giggles.

I was quite young when I got married and DH And I were the first of our friends to do it. I was really nervous about being centre of attention and didn’t want a receiving line at the reception but our parents whined so we acquiesced. We had 80 guests who shook our hands and congratulated us. Eighty. Eight zero. I congratulated each and every one of them parrot fashion. I was horrified even as I was doing it and pretty sure Dh was wondering if the ink was dry on the wedding certificate yet.

I was finishing up parents evening chat with near retiring, matronly, ample bosomed head of year, right on our goodbyes, when we were interrupted briefly. Before I'd turned away from head of year, her arms were definitely folded across her chest. As a warm gesture to push home my gratitude for all her support over the years, I gave her forearm a squeeze as I turned away. Unfortunately her arms were no longer folded and I squeezed the front most, pointy part of her large left breast.

Graduation for a post-grad thing. The president of the college was very tall, I was the first female to go up to get their degree. Few chaps had gone before and I hadn't really been paying attention after the intitial, "go up here, walk along here" introductory chat from a uni person. Name got called, went up on stage, president loomed down, so I assumed he wanted a cheek kiss so turned face up to receive the kiss. Then he retracted with a bit of horror, then double retracted back to not dodge the kiss so we had a kiss on stage to much laughter. I heard the introductory explanation next year to the new graduants included them explaining "Last year this girl tried to kiss the president. Please don't"

I applied for a job once in a specific area I had no experience in. I got an email saying thank you for my application but they had lots of candidates with experience within the specific area so would not be taking my application any further.

I forwarded this email to my sisters writing something along the lines of "bloody bastards with their bloody specific experience" the language may have been a little more fruity......

Only I hadn't forwarded it - I had REPLIED to it!

I emailed a very sincere apology saying that the email obviously wasn't meant for them.....they did at least have the good grace to say thank you for giving them a good laugh in their office.

DH had a parent give him a big hug +kiss in the supermarket, followed by lots of friendly question about the family and being told they have to go out to catch up. DH relayed this to me, when he got home rather bemusedly. He looked a lot like the IT teacher who had been at the school for ever. case of mistaken identity.

I used to work with a man who was extremely good looking AND has all the charisma and charm in the world to go with it. HE also spoke very good english but with a lovely french accent and was very strong on eye-contact.

All of this used to mean I'd get a bit flustered when I was working with him face to face. One day I popped into his office to follow up on something, we had a quick chat and then...

...as I stood up I thanked him for his time AND FUCKING CURTSIED...

he raised an eyebrow and looked at me in amusement before I legged it.

what a bloody moron I am.

Out shopping with dear sis, we'd been in the pub for lunch and were a little tipsy. Saw her bent over looking at some jumpers on a table so snuck up and squeezed her bum. Girl who wasn't my sister spun round in horror, sister who was standing nearby collapsed in laughter while yelling 'you big lezzer!' at me. I am a big lezzer BTW.

When my twins were toddlers (relevant!) and I was used to picking them up all the time, I went to a hospital appointment without them. I was standing in the waiting room and there was a toddler walking around who came up to me, both arms in the air - I went into autopilot and picked him up and walked off down the corridor jiggling him on my hip - at which point his dad came and asked for him back.

Another one - was getting some physio from a very handsome, charming French accented therapist, with a lovely bedside manner. I'm gay and even i thought he was gorgeous. He sees me out to reception and goes to shake my hand, cos he was French i had it in my head to do the double kiss thing but as I went in realised my mistake, panicked did FOUR ( FOUR!) kisses and tripped out the door shouting 'Thanks for my rub!' to the sniggering of the receptionist and next woman waiting to see Mr handsome...

I was introduced to a new colleague at work, but hadn't realised they were a partial (below the elbow) amputee, so went in for a handshake.

We ended up doing a weird kind of fist/stump bump and I was mortified, but new colleague was lovely, said it happens all the time and not to worry!

I came out of the train station and got into DP's car. Then realised DP didn't look much like DP. DP's identical car was further up the line. DP and random guy whose car I got into were roaring with laughter, me not so much!

I worked with a football team and we had an away game, at a very well established club

I went to the loo, came out, and was standing in the middle of the "VIP bar area" with players and someone i worked with told me i had a "huge" roll of toilet tissue hanging out the top of my trousers.

I still gringe about this and have told noone in real life

@soupforbrains - I've just choked on my soup reading your post.

When we were moving out of our flat to go travelling a good few years ago the landlord popped over to sort out some things and take the key back. He had a baby with him.

We were living up north and I’m from the south so I used to nod and agree a lot without really listening. I kept saying how cute his daughter was and how old was she etc...

We go to leave and my husband whispers to me that it’s actually a boy and the guy corrected me loads!

Totally mortified. Now I make sure I actually listen to what people are saying.

I also randomly hugged the cleaning lady at work when I was moving to a new office- I regretted the it almost instantly!

Chillimum I recall several teachers in my childhood uttering the words 'c'est quoi ce bordel?' on entering an unruly classroom. It's fairly mild really :)

When asked my DD details for enrolling at school the Headteacher asked her date of birth , I stated 30th December , she asked what year ???!! I stated “every year ?” Much to the amusement of my DH ,

I love that other people are as awkward as I am!

I curtseyed when I was introduced to a new boss. I still feel like chewing my fist off with embarrassment every time I remember it (most days).

One day I was at a parents evening. I was talking with a parent of a little first grade child about their report card. Suddenly another child I teach approaches me in a big hug. This one was in my second grade class at the time.

A few years back I ended a face-to-face conversation with a client who I'd met a few times but didn't know well. He leaned forward - I now have absolutely no idea why he leaned forward, as it turned out that in fact he wasn't intending to hug me. The result was that I ended up punching him between the shoulder blades. And ran away as fast as I could. And have avoided speaking to him ever since!

Years ago as a relatively junior/middle manager in organisation, I was away at an external conference. The new CEO of our organisation sat down next to me on the row of seats. He was to my left.

I recognised him and with all the eagerness of a puppy junior member of staff wanting to impress, tried to engage in some chit chat. He responded politely enough. I then realised that I hadn't introduced myself or the fact that he was my CEO. Clearly I could have just opened my mouth to point out these salient facts. But no, I decided it was best to get him to glance at my name badge. My name badge was on my right hand side and rather than just swizzle my body round to show said name badge I tried to just move my upper torso, keeping my head looking straight forward. Essentially I spent several minutes apparently trying to proudly show new CEO my breasts.

A couple of years ago I bumped into some old work colleagues out for a team dinner in a restaurant. I was standing behind one woman with my hands resting on the back of their chair having a good old chinwag when I realised I’d been fiddling with her hair the whole time

Was sitting down when a regular customer came into work, she bent down to give me a hug as I stood up to shake her hand - ended up groping her boob and head butting her