Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Just made a massive fool of myself

199 replies

pyjamas89 · 30/01/2020 18:05

Walked out to the carpark with a colleague as Ieft the office this evening. Approaching my car noticed some bad damage to one side where someone has presumably driven into it. I was having a rant and my colleague was making the right kind of sympathetic noises. My colleague headed off and I then found I couldn't open my car door... Because it wasn't my car!

I'm switching between my cheeks burning to thinking it's hilarious to being delighted I won't have to pay to have it mended! Please come and make me feel less silly by regaling me with tales of your moments of making a fool of yourself?!

OP posts:
pinboard · 30/01/2020 22:36

@tenlittlecynets

I used to be okay as I drove vvv tatty old 4x4 wrecks - farmer rejects!
now I have a smallish, silver-grey, slightly scruffy car, needing a wash.
So does half the rest of the UK it seems as I've had 2 people try to get in mine too. I tried to empathise with their embarrassment by smiling kindly and telling my own 'got the wrong small silver-grey slightly scruffy car' story, to make them feel better, but they just scarpered Grin

Dragonembroidery · 30/01/2020 22:43

My toddler, years ago, now all grown up, had confused the words daddy and man. This was thought of as very funny by my DH and his family.
It mustn't have lasted long, as it's only one embarrassing memory, but I vividly remember walking in local park with DS in pram - shouting proudly and pointing at every man we passed at every man he shouted 'daddy!'
Bloody embarrassing.
I was happily married and knew who the father was (my DH). DH found it hilarious.

mrsBtheparker · 30/01/2020 22:44

Whilst living in Germany a new-comer was crying because she couldn't find her car that she'd parked on a street. When we'd calmed her down we asked her to try and recall some details of the street, 'Oh but I know the name of the street, it's Einbahnstrasse' Sadly that mean one-way street.

listsandbudgets · 30/01/2020 22:44

When dd was 4 she was badly misbehaving in the supermarket. Eventually I had had more than enough and decided to abandon my trolley...

I reached behind me grabbed her hand and snapped " that's it we are going home right now"..

Then turned round to discover I was tightly clasping the hand of a lady about my own age while dd was giggling on the other side of the aisle..

Thankfully she saw the funny side and stood there laughing at me as I stammered my apologies before carrying dd out of the shop.

Dragonembroidery · 30/01/2020 22:45

Baby not toddler. Just starting to talk.

Gibble1 · 30/01/2020 22:50

Waiting to cross a road once on the sea front. Hot summer day and it was very crowded. My family were all on my left hand side.
From the corner of my right eye, I saw the bus coming round the bend as the person on my right stepped forward. I grabbed him and yanked him back saying “BUS!”
Poor fella nearly had a heart attack and his wife and my family were pissing themselves as I mumbled “sorry, thought you were my son”.
At least he didn’t get squished though!

bouncydog · 30/01/2020 22:51

Walked out of a shop and reached behind me to grab the door handle to pull the door shut. Only it wasn’t the door handle, it was the nether regions of the tall gentleman who had walked out behind me.........

Meltedwellie · 30/01/2020 22:56

You know how you say someone will drink you under the table, well at a large family meal the focus was more on eating, with my sis and DP continuing after most had finished. I said in a loud jolly voice to DP watch out! She’ll eat you under the table! Looks of shock on their faces then we all burst out laughing while older rellies demanded to know what was funny.

Serin · 30/01/2020 22:58

A few hours after having DD, DH left to ho to buy lunch, when he came back I was drowsy and had taken my contact lenses out.
He walked in and I said "remind me never to have sex with you again"
Except it wasnt DH, it was his friend from the rugby club, who works there as a doctor and had popped in to say hello.

firesong · 30/01/2020 22:59

Got a tampon out of my bag at an interview, thinking it was a pen.

Tootyfruityfoo · 30/01/2020 23:08

My two year old uses mammy and daddy interchangeably. Apparently when he comes running out of creche shouting mammeee at my dh he gets some laughs.

Many years ago my cousin was out in town and staying at her sisters house in an estate that night. She rolled in around 3am the front door was left unlocked for her, she drunkenly made her way to the couch and fell asleep. She woke up in the morning and got up to use the loo. On her way back to make her way upstairs to the spare room she noticed she didn't know the people in the pictures on the wall. She soon realised she wasn't in her sister's house, as she heard voices upstairs she grabbed her stuff and ran out the door to find herself three doors down from her sister's place

FenellaVelour · 30/01/2020 23:11

A couple of pieces caught my eye (because they were awful) and I whispered something like “my Son (5) could do those” to my boyfriend. Or so I thought. Boyfriend had actually moved and his friend had moved beside me to presumably hear my praise of his, yes HIS ACTUAL work.

I’ve done something very, very similar. My former BIL ran a gallery and picture framing business. His daughter was a perennial student trying her hand at all different forms of art.

BIL was showing us round his gallery. There was one sculpture which basically resembled a lump of rock. Very dull and uninspiring.

I said, “I don’t think stuff like that is art, it’s rubbish, I could do that myself.”

He said, “My daughter created that.”

tumbleweeds

mamansnet · 30/01/2020 23:19

Years ago, I was walking through town on a Friday night with a male friend, heading to the pub. Walk past my brother, who just nods at me and grunts 'alright?'🥺

Friend says 'urghhh how do you know him? He's a right twat, I can't stand him!' Managed to resist laughing, decided to spare friend's blushes and said, oh he's just someone I know.

In a different pub later that night, spot DB again, but this time he comes over and starts chatting. Friend soon figures it out and turns crimson!

Clevererthanyou · 30/01/2020 23:20

I forgot my glasses when I went shopping with my mil and I became annoyed when perusing the greetings cards section as I couldn’t see properly. Mil was stood next to me and I barked at her “I give up!!! Which one do you think she’d like better?!?” When a perfectly lovely absolute stranger calmly looked at both the cards I was holding and said ‘Oh er definitely that one?’ Blush

MakyJo · 30/01/2020 23:20

One I won't ever forget was being sat in the Dentist's chair to look down and see the previous days knickers poking out of the bottom of my jeans. Had pulled jeans on in a hurry and hadn't noticed. They were noticed by all in the room!
On another occasion I was having a whinge about a very strange therapist who was involved with my child to a colleague. I suddenly heard hello hello.. argh as I hadn't ended the call to her. Eek.
Recently i spotted a car that had rolled right out of its parking space and was sat solo in the middle of a car park! Was just pleased it wasn't my own!!

DoctorTwo · 31/01/2020 05:48

I spent half an hour looking for my silver Rover in Tesco car park the same day I'd bought a blue Vauxhall because the Rover had died.

Original poster
pyjamas89 · 31/01/2020 10:46

You lot have some brilliant stories! My cheeks are burning slightly less this morning!

OP posts:
Deathraystare · 31/01/2020 11:48

I went and sat in a car that I thought belonged to my friend. I sat and looked at NOT my friend stupified. She was a car next to it wondering why I got in a strangers car!

Sparklfairy · 31/01/2020 13:06

I went on a date to the cinema. We had had a few drinks before so I needed the loo about halfway thru the film. I went to the toilet and congratulated myself on being able to find the right screen on the way back. Walked up the aisle and plonked myself down. Next to a stranger. His girlfriend was on the other side looking at me like who the fuck is this? I shrugged and was too embarrassed to find where my actual date was one row ahead and waving maniacally so sat with them for the course of the film. I then realised at the end I had sat on the poor guys coat the whole time Blush

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 31/01/2020 13:35

I try to blank things like this from my memory, so my story is about a person who made a tit of themselves in front of me Grin

I was in the communal kitchen at work, making a cup of tea. What I usually do is put the hot water in the mug and leave the tea to brew while I go to the loo, then by the time I get back it's just the right strength. On this occasion, though, I came back to the kitchen to find that a woman from a different team had finished making my tea and was sitting there happily sipping away at it. If I had a generic white mug I could have understood it, but I actually have a photo mug emblazoned with pictures of my pet snakes. She was extremely embarrassed and offered to pour away the tea immediately so I could have my mug back, but that just felt really awkward so I told her to go ahead and finish the tea and bring the mug to me later. Minor social embarrassment like this is so very British.

TheNoiseHurts · 31/01/2020 13:39

I took my Royal Mail 'missed you' paper next door and asked for my mail.

She said she didn't have it.

I looked at it and I said "oh no, it's number 34! Hmm where's that? Ok don't worry I'll find it."

Started looking up and down the street before I remembered we are number 34....

TheNoiseHurts · 31/01/2020 13:55

I have another one.

Years and years ago, before kids when we were young and unmarried, when DH would come in to my house he would call "Honey! I'm a homo!" (Instead of honey I'm home).

22 years later and when I'm doing dinner and I anticipate him being late, I text him and ask him what is he homo?

Anyway.

One day I went out for dinner with the kids, and I said to them "I just need to call your Dad and see when he's home"

I called him, he answered "hello?"

I said "Hi, what time are you homosexual?"

And my DAD replied "What time and I what?!"

Despite the fact that my dad is very laid back, and has a very wicked sense of humour, I was still so embarrassed I was utterly mortified.

I still go read thinking about it even now 3 years on.

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 31/01/2020 13:55

Since there seem to be a lot of car-related ones - I have a very common make of car in a very popular colour, so I'm always struggling in car parks to locate the one that is actually mine. One time, I was queuing up to pay for petrol when, through the window, I saw what I thought was my car being driven off the forecourt. I actually gasped "My car!" and made to run after it, when I looked over at the pump I'd been using and noticed that, of course, my car was still there. I then had to slink back into the queue and pretend to the other four or five people who were waiting that I hadn't just acted like a total berk.

TheNoiseHurts · 31/01/2020 13:56

Fuck all those words being changed, I HATE iPhone doing that

PhilomenaChristmasPie · 31/01/2020 13:57

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome, you have some great stories and tell them beautifully! How's your handsome DGS?

Swipe left for the next trending thread